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...Last week’s Qatar Open was fiercely fought, with the world No1 Magnus Carlsen defeated in round two....
...Their venue will be the Royal Hall of the Villa Marina entertainment complex in Douglas. Early in December the chess body Fide is expected to affiliate Isle of Man as a new member....
...He had no trainer with him in Douglas, and prepared for his games alone with his computer....
...The Fide/Chess.com Grand Swiss starting near Douglas, Isle of Man, on October 10 is a stage towards the jackpot for grandmasters, a championship match with Norway’s Magnus Carlsen....
...It was consolation for earlier this year when Jones blew a winning position against world No1 Magnus Carlsen....
...BNY Mellon has appointed Douglas Shulman as global head of client service delivery....
...George Magnus, UBS: Credit easing, as currently structured, will not be transformative....
...But Magnus Renfrew, director of ART HK, says things are changing. “When we got here a few years ago, everybody was talking about Hong Kong being a cultural desert....
...George Magnus, UBS: The cyclical reason for poor productivity performance, the maintenance or relatively stable employment levels while output has shrunk, isn’t likely to change in 2012, and if it did rise...
...George Magnus, UBS: The authorities should not be hung up excessively on regulation, red tape and personal tax cuts as the means to boost trend growth....
...Douglas McWilliams, Centre for Economics and Business Research: Quite possibly 17 but more likely about 5. Even this is not certain – there might yet still be only one....
...Douglas McWilliams, Centre for Economics and Business Research: 2012 will be a pretty difficult year for the UK....
...George Magnus, UBS: The single-minded focus on fiscal austerity executed by a stable government and supported by QE has unquestionably bought the government and the gilt market credibility....
...When Sands was writing his 2008 book, Torture Team, he spoke at length to Douglas Feith, who had been an under-secretary for defence in George W....
...Douglas McWilliams of the Centre for Economics and Business Research said: “There is one major risk, which is that confidence . . . does not recover.”...
...George Magnus, UBS In relation to interest rates, the homebuyer population and the available housing stock, yes....
...George Magnus, UBS Emerging economies will do well for much of 2010, but it is only a question of time before China slams the brakes on explosive bank lending and credit expansion....
...Douglas McWilliams, chief executive, CEBR Bumpy....
...George Magnus, UBS The main winners have been Australia, and Asian and Latin economies with clean balance sheets....
...George Magnus, UBS Strictly speaking, fiscal restraint should no begin in earnest until 2011, or later....
...George Magnus, UBS It was an illusion to think boom and bust had been terminated when we were running a large structural fiscal deficit at the top of the boom, and when 60 per cent of our GDP growth was...
...George Magnus, UBS The three main risks the economy faces are political, sovereign default, and growth anaemia, and we should be very concerned about all three....
...George Magnus, UBS People may want or need to buy for a variety of reasons, but investment shouldn’t be one of them....
...Douglas McWilliams, CEBR: China. The recession there is essentially a cyclical phenomenon....
...George Magnus, UBS The loss of output will be the biggest since the end of the second world war in several major economies, including the UK....
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