Hints and tips:
...Around his neck, a pair of wraparound Oakley glasses glitter with encrusted diamonds. On his finger sits a gigantic diamond globule given to him by a fan....
...Mykines Corporation LLP, which sent $1.2bn of sensitive goods to Russia, is a UK entity ultimately owned by a pair of British Virgin Islands companies — a secrecy jurisdiction....
...Meanwhile, a veteran of the 1980s bank crisis in the US has criticised the decision by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to sell First Republic to JPMorgan....
...Group 4: Logos that are square (or diamonds . . . sure we can allow diamonds) Square is of course a synonym for uncool, and we’ve got to say this tranche is . . . maybe a little boring....
...I’ll be speaking to Larry Diamond. He’s, I think, one of the world’s leading scholars of democracy....
...Last week I spoke to the Stanford academic Larry Diamond, who has dubbed the great rolling back of Democratic norms over the last 15 years a Democratic recession....
...Tokenising credits has become a popular starting point....
...I’d keep corporation tax low to attract investment from around the world....
...De Beers even heads a pioneering project, CarbonVault, exploring the use of kimberlite (diamond-bearing) rock to absorb CO2 beyond neutrality – possibly even to the point of becoming carbon-negative....
...He has a point. On the brand’s UK website, a steel Seiko 5 Sports priced at £230 sits alongside a diamond-set platinum Grand Seiko Spring Drive 8 Day ‘Mishaka’ at £176,120....
...Lawrence tells me she considers their focal point, the Rosslyn Hill Chapel — which is still going strong — the cornerstone of Hampstead’s vaunted liberalism....
...Donald defended the company’s decision to continue sailing, arguing that little was known about the virus at that point....
...This summer’s IPO of Bridgepoint, in which Dyal had bought a stake, was a case in point....
...LVMH boss Bernard Arnault (pictured below) believes the French government has signalled his way out by sending a letter asking his company to delay closing until January (at which point the company could...
...In an April 16 note downgrading Diamond’s debt to the 17th point on its 21-point scale, rating agency Moody’s said the oilfield services sector would be “one of the sectors most significantly affected” by...
...“This is another sign of the insatiable hunger for yield the world is currently facing,” said John McClain, a portfolio manager at Diamond Hill Capital Management....
...Laurence Fletcher Carnival Corporation, cruise operator When surging coronavirus cases forced the Diamond Princess cruise ship into quarantine in February, it provided one of the first clear signs that...
...Environmentalists who have been calling on BlackRock to divest from fossil fuels, will surely be rolling their eyes at this point. But it is worth listening to the rest of Fink’s comments....
...Read more The diamond industry rarely sees developments that feel like a turning point....
...We can, however, be pretty sure that for him, diamonds are pear-shaped....
...Though instances of infection have been limited to two ships so far, both owned by Carnival Corporation, the $45bn cruise industry faces a battle to regain customer trust....
...Yet Welch’s departure as chief executive marked the high point of his — and arguably GE’s — reputation. Within days, the 9/11 attacks had rocked the company....
...Coffey, who served as chief of staff for New York Mayor Ed Koch, joined the firm from The Dreyfus Corporation in 1996....
...They come with a spicy little dipping number but, to be honest, it’s superfluous . . . they need no more than the diamond dusting for perfection....
...It was a high point for “the most opulent company in the world”, as Clive described it; even Lady Clive’s pet ferret wore a diamond necklace....
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