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...A recent big project was Blur’s comeback album The Ballad of Darren....
...Vincent Clerc, head of shipping giant AP Møller-Maersk, speaking to the Financial Times yesterday before the US and UK strikes, said it could take months to reopen the Red Sea route, risking an economic...
...Need to know: business General Motors agreed a deal with the UAW union to end the carworkers’ strike, following similar deals struck by Ford and Chrysler owner Stellantis....
...Ford is among those leading brands that have already pledged to go fully electric this decade and have made manufacturing decisions with that target in mind....
...Ford reached a tentative deal with the United Auto Workers union that would raise wages 25 per cent over four years and potentially end a 40-day strike....
...Need to know: business US car workers launched the first strike action against Detroit’s big three of Ford, General Motors and Stellantis in almost a century....
...Ford plans to scale back future investments in China, as the US carmaker’s chief executive warned there was “no guarantee” western carmakers could win against local electric vehicle rivals....
...Vietnamese electric vehicle start-up VinFast is worth more than Ford or GM after shares of the lossmaking company soared on its US stock market debut....
...Competition is intensifying within China too, causing Ford to announce yesterday it would scale back its EV investments in the country....
...increasing competition from Chinese companies such as CATL, the world’s largest maker of electric car batteries, which has licensed its technology for cheaper lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries to Ford...
...Ford said it expected to lose $3bn making electric vehicles this year. Columnist Simon Kuper says it’s about time SUVs — whether fuelled by petrol or electricity — are regulated out of existence....
...London-based jeweller Darren Sherwood, behind brand Mr Sherwood, thinks there has been a “full 360”....
...“Susan is a master networker, organiser and connector – this is her superpower,” says Darren Walker, president of the Ford Foundation....
...Need to know: business Ford is cutting 3,800 jobs across Europe as it pares back its range of models ahead of the switch to electric vehicles....
...“Anyone who was almost [about to buy an EV] has thought they have five more years now,” said Darren Ardron, who runs the Perrys dealership group in the UK....
...Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway surged to a record high this week, helping increase its valuation this year by more than $100bn — the equivalent of Ford and Halliburton combined....
...Lay-offs in middle management in US companies such as Walmart and Ford have raised fears of a “white-collar” recession....
...Volkswagen, Europe’s biggest carmaker, followed Ford and Volvo in warning that supply chain hold-ups were becoming a permanent problem as it downgraded its delivery targets because of a lack of parts....
...Additional contributions by Tee Zhuo and Darren Dodd...
...Ford is cutting 3,000 workers as it tilts its labour force towards electric vehicles....
...Coppola burst onto the scene as one of a new wave of directors in the late ’90s, along with Paul Thomas Anderson, Darren Aronofsky and Wes Anderson....
...In the hands of Darren Siwes and Vincent Namatjira, humour comes with a political edge. For “Jingli Kwin” (2013), Siwes dresses an Aboriginal couple in mock-royal regalia for a portrait....
...I have Bob Dylan, Lucinda Williams, Bruce Springsteen, Robert Plant and St Vincent. One I don’t have is Willie Nelson’s – I just went to see him at the Hollywood Bowl....
...Apple, Boeing and Siemens have now joined Ford, Nike and others in the corporate boycott, while PR firms and support services such as accountants and consultants are cutting ties for fear of reputational...
...Semiconductor shortages were one of the reasons for Ford’s lower than expected 2021 profits of $10bn, but the company said higher pricing could lift earnings by as much as 25 per cent this year....
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