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...Exane likes Sampo and Lancashire as the most defensive of the property and casualty insurers....
...Simon Kirby, chief operating officer at Rolls-Royce, is stepping down just 19 months after taking the post, becoming the first high-profile casualty of the FTSE engineer’s latest restructuring....
...European bank consolidation on the cards A trio of stories from continental Europe suggest that bank consolidation may well be picking up....
...This high profile casualty of the trade war won’t go unnoticed among multinational companies. Garry Young, NIESR Chelsea will win the cup....
...And it highlights only one policy — their unsurprising (and reasonable) support for lower corporation tax....
...However, TPG had to overcome tough questions about the performance of TPG V, its boom-era buyout fund, which invested $15.5bn but suffered some high-profile casualties....
...to the Continental chief executive after he flew on the airline and found the food to be inedible....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...she says, as a V-shaped crack in the island’s cliffs reveals the settlement of Jamestown. “And it’s British!”...
...POP Ziggyology , by Simon Goddard, Ebury Press, £20, 352 pages After the comeback and the V&A retrospective comes Bowie fatigue. Do we need more adulation?...
...Ms Baldry, who succeeds Sir David Cooksey, will dip into her regeneration and development experience as the former chairman of the London Thames Gateway Development Corporation....
...General Re Corporation, Civil Action No. 10 Civ 458 (S.D.N.Y.)...
...There are also smaller pockets in Australia and continental Europe. “The Tamil diaspora in the US and the UK are not riffraff....
...Prior to the turmoil, expectations were that variable annuities would proliferate across continental Europe and the UK....
...But it is likely corporations were already bringing some funds back, and were liquidating longer-term assets to strengthen the parent company’s financial position, even before the IRS move....
...Company, which closed in 1984....
...German autoparts maker Continental followed Michelin upwards, rising 2.8 per cent to €67.41....
...Along the way it lost its distinctive V-tail and picked up a conventional tail. But it is still fast....
...previous two years from advising that company in bankruptcy....
...Last year, Hytner began his first season at the National with Shakespeare’s Henry V....
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