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...A few days later, on May 1, £10,000 was deposited directly into Bianca’s business account. The sender was listed as RCW Odey. The past decade has been volatile for Odey Asset Management....
...They eat 10-20 per cent of their bodyweight in greenfly, whitefly, flies, midges and just about every other garden insect every day....
...Their gallery tends to care more about that than an auction house does....
...East defence specialist at Janes, a defence and open-source intelligence firm in London....
...Answers to the nearest 10 per cent. Which G20 countries does the IMF forecast will have the fastest and slowest growth rates in 2024? Half a point each....
...But certainly, when it comes to Citi having given the top job for Jane Fraser, it does raise a question about whether once again a woman is coming in as a troubleshooter....
...Bank of America’s Brian Moynihan sold $1.9mn before becoming chief executive but none since; Citi chief executive Jane Fraser has also not sold since taking the top job....
...When I say 10 or 20 years, you know, we might get superhuman AI systems, well, he won’t even be an adult in 10 years. [MUSIC PLAYING] John Thornhill This is Tech Tonic from the Financial Times....
...In the early 1970s, dealers could drive over to “an airfield in Ireland” and pick up a Georgian painted dresser for between £10 and £40, Cornall recalls....
...he says cost less than half the anticipated £1.1bn....
...Joan Girona, a senior researcher and irrigation specialist at Irta, had stopped watering them in May....
...According to a Boston Consulting Group survey of 1,500 mainly US and European office workers in spring 2023, almost two-thirds (62 per cent) had no say in their company’s policy....
...John Kamoto Yes. Yes, exactly. And the communications regulator, Ofcom, has said that 1 per cent of older people are more likely to pick up the phone or talk through landlines....
...The appointment of John Lee, a former career policeman and security minister, as the city’s leader last year sent another clear signal: national security continues to trump economic and business interests...
...This one does not disappoint: a great read about a TikTok-famous chef I’ve never heard of — but 1.7mn people have....
...Slaughter and May has its own specific quirks — partners are expected to sit in the order they arrive at lunch, and pigeon hole numbers 1-10 are auctioned off at Christmas....
...Wise told the FT it does not support payments to Venezuela and aims to return money to deactivated customers within 10 days....
...In that contest, AfD was the only German party to produce campaign materials in the Russian language, as the British specialist John Lough writes in his first-rate book, Germany’s Russia Problem....
...25 to 14 per cent and 25 to 10 per cent, respectively....
...“Rising interest rates are a clear and present danger to the millions of households who are looking to remortgage their fixed-rate deals in the coming year and beyond,” said Jane Tully, director of partnerships...
...And what does the state of demand for new and vintage china tell us about attitudes to monarchy?...
...This month it cost $1,444 to ship a standard 40ft steel container from eastern China to the US west coast at short notice, according to shipping data specialist Xeneta, down from a peak of $9,682 in March...
...The profit, which was driven by bets across a range of asset classes including bonds and equities, surpasses the roughly $15.6bn made by John Paulson in 2007 through his bet against subprime....
...According to Rick Palacios of John Burns Real Estate Consulting, they’ve cut prices, and those with mortgage lending offshoots are offering lower rates to get people in houses....
...Sell to an EOT and you save that £1.9mn....
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