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...Curiosity and a hunger for stimulation draw the two girls into the orbit of David Booth, the Baxters’ extraordinary relative and neighbour....
...Thomas Hale has more details from Shanghai. The Big Read By 2045, about $90tn in the US alone is set to be transferred from those born before 1964 to their heirs....
...Carter says the “Water Lily” work of this scale and quality most recently sold at auction was “Nymphéas en fleur” (c1914-17), a more purple-hued version that was sold as part of the Peggy and David Rockefeller...
...In today’s newsletter: BP’s CEO is out The Barclay’s billion-dollar debt The DoJ takes on Google BP’s future-minded chief makes a premature exit In a shock move on Tuesday, BP boss Bernard Looney resigned...
...Additional contributions from Benjamin Wilhelm and David Hindley...
...Among them are the family holding company of LVMH CEO Bernard Arnault and Norway’s sovereign wealth fund....
...In 1801, after the close call at Marengo, David, using his son sitting atop a ladder since the great man refused to pose, painted Napoleon crossing the St Bernard pass, his mount’s legs lifted in the levade...
...Thomas Dane Gallery now represents the in-demand South African multimedia artist Igshaan Adams (born 1982), his first UK representative....
The past, present and future of the EU's energy crisis
...“They can see how rough Turner was,” says Thomas....
...“Within the first four weeks, we lent six years’ worth of volume of lending,” Hannah Bernard, head of business banking at Barclays UK, told the MPs....
...Additional reporting by Nathalie Thomas, George Parker and David Sheppard...
...“There are only a few photographers, like Andreas Gursky, whose work goes over the €500,000 mark,” says Thomas Zander, who has a gallery in Cologne, Germany, specialising in photography, “and the business...
...The firm could be valued at about £750m, two people familiar with the plans told the FT’s Dan Thomas and Kate Beioley. There could be speed bumps ahead....
...The FT’s Daniel Thomas chronicles the UK’s quest to regain its IPO mojo here. Welcome to the Due Diligence briefing from the Financial Times. Not a subscriber? Sign up here....
...Its editors are Derek Brower and Myles McCormick, with contributions from David Sheppard, Anjli Raval, Leslie Hook and Nathalie Thomas in London, and Gregory Meyer in New York....
...“That doesn’t sound like much, but it is,” says David Vaughan, director of science at the British Antarctic Survey....
...Catch up with the story from DD’s Kaye Wiggins and the FT’s Daniel Thomas here. But some people are thinking twice before raising their glasses....
...In the meantime, the club signed midfielder Thomas Partey from Atletico Madrid for £45m....
...Meet David Pemsel: the Guardian Media chief recruited to tackle the Premier League....
...David Pilling Economics, business and technology Bernard Arnault LVMH chairman and chief executive Jeff Bezos Amazon founder and chief executive Tim Cook Apple chief executive Jamie Dimon JPMorgan...
...But even with Pygmalion in 1913 George Bernard Shaw got further in interrogating the initial premise....
...Many will recall what happened to House of Fraser after Nanjing-based investor Sanpower bought it in 2014, as well as the fate of Shanghai-based Fosun’s investment in Thomas Cook....
...The body of a politician, Bernard Clausen, has been found in his cabin on the Norwegian coast surrounded by a fortune in what appears to be stolen money....
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