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...The retailer’s declining sales continued in the third quarter, falling 13 per cent in constant currency terms to R$830mn....
...A Brazilian court has ordered iron ore producer Samarco along with its owners Vale and BHP to pay R$47.6bn ($9.7bn) in compensation for a dam collapse that triggered one of the country’s worst environmental...
...What we’re also reading and listening to Law: David R Jones made Houston the nation’s insolvency capital before an undisclosed relationship forced his resignation and prompted calls for reform....
...Davis Polk has appointed Raul Yanes to become chair of its white collar defence and investigations practise. He was most recently at Morgan Stanley and is a former senior White House official....
...Like most of today’s trumpeters of note, the influence of Miles Davis is strong — it was Harrold’s trumpet that graced Don Cheadle’s biopic Miles Ahead....
...After visiting Bahrain, where the US Navy’s Fifth Fleet is stationed, the defence secretary will stop aboard the USS Gerald R Ford aircraft carrier, currently in the eastern Mediterranean, and also travel...
...Some of them were at a recent screening of the film, part of a tribute to producer Edward R Pressman, who died in January....
...However, as the Fed continues to fight inflation, the labour market will need to remain strong if we are to achieve the proverbial soft landing [for the US economy],” said Joseph R Gaffoglio, president of...
...Britain after Brexit is edited by Gordon Smith. Premium subscribers can sign up here to have it delivered straight to their inbox every Thursday afternoon....
...Including dollar and rupee-denominated bonds, plus a financing facility from Howard Marks’ Oaktree Capital Management, Vedanta has to pay back close to $6.2bn in the next 18 months, said Lakshmanan R, senior...
...I notice Davis is on the phone. She smiles and says, “The news about you being an actor has reached Hollywood. Shonda says she’ll reboot Scandal and hire you to play the main villain.” Gordon cheers....
...The Body Shop was founded in 1976 by the late environmental campaigner Anita Roddick and her husband Gordon, and became a pioneer in the field of ethical consumerism....
...“They don’t know which plants to keep shipping parts to, and which plants to stop shipping parts to,” said Erik Gordon, a professor at the University of Michigan business school....
...A sanctioned ship’s journey: The FT has reconstructed the five-month covert journey that a sanctions-hit Russian cargo ship, Lady R, allegedly took to secretly transport weapons sought by Moscow....
...JAB has hired Gordon von Bretten as a partner. He served as chief transformation officer of Coty since 2020....
...The $1.6bn defamation lawsuit was due to start today but in a statement issued last night Judge Eric Davis said the trial would now start tomorrow. Read more on the trial here. 2....
...There’s a 2005 recording by Sir Colin Davis and the LSO that I particularly like, which I’ve added to the Inside Politics playlist....
...They disagree on the level of the neutral interest rate, or R-star — the level at which monetary policy neither accommodative nor restrictive....
...“Even though we have a sense it is higher, we don’t know exactly how high R-star is right now,” she said....
...Nearly three years after Italy introduced the first nationwide lockdown of the pandemic, much of the world remains in the grip of what economists Jose Maria Barrero, Nicholas Bloom and Steven Davis have...
...When Frank came out, she was briefly labelled the “British Badu” due to the influence of one of her favourite artists, the innovative US soul and R&B singer Erykah Badu....
...Then “Amazing Grace”, played instrumentally and channelling 1950s gospel R&B in the style of Ray Charles: Benjamin’s phrases curled round the chords and slurred, sighed and moaned; Curtis supported with...
...Lacie Midgley, an analyst at Panmure Gordon, said the revenue guidance was worse than expected, but it was not a bad thing for the new chief executive to reset expectations at a low level....
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