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...The writer is a Soho resident Earlier this month, I visited the Colony Rooms, the notorious Soho artists’ club, which closed in 2008 and has been revived by the artist Darren Coffield in a nearby basement...
...publishes its monthly card-spending statistics US: NAHB Housing Market Index Conference: S&P Global’s CERAWeek energy industry gathering, with speakers including ExxonMobil’s chair and chief executive Darren...
...A new survey found the UK’s estate agents at their most gloomy since 2009, with many houses being sold for below their asking price.The head of L&G, one of Britain’s largest insurers, bemoaned the “perpetual...
...Many companies — including Vodafone, banks Lloyds Banking Group and HSBC, insurers Legal & General and Aviva, fund manager M&G, exhibitions company Informa and warehouse group Segro — attempted to relieve...
...Finally, do read David Wallace-Wells’ bracing NYT essay on whether America is ready for back-to-back pandemics....
...If the serve works, if the movement is there . . . watching him will again be, for some, a “religious experience” (copyright David Foster Wallace)....
...Covid-19 has upended traditional economic theory, writes Lena Komileva, chief economist of G+ Economics....
...Profits at M&G plunged 57 per cent in the first half of the year as nervous investors withdrew from the asset manager’s funds during the pandemic sell-off....
...(Access to Medicine Foundation, Guardian, AMR Industry Alliance, FT) Disease R&D The annual G-Finder report showed record funding for research into HIV/aids, malaria, TB and other “neglected” diseases,...
...In another big week for Michael Jordan, the hoops legend bought a Nascar racing team charter and hired Bubba Wallace to begin driving next season....
...In the House of Commons debate on the bill, the Secretary of State Ben Wallace was asked why is torture not in Schedule 1?...
...In New York, meanwhile, Darren Woods, ExxonMobil chief executive, will present his investment priorities and turnround plans to analysts....
...But, as Wallace’s case shows, belief in the supernatural is persistent....
...But the G-Finder data highlighted the continued reliance on the US government and the Gates Foundation for the largest share of support....
...The thing to do with falling knives is to get out of the way,” said Rett Wallace, co-founder of Triton Research....
...The poor reception to Uber and Lyft’s IPO was dubbed “the big reckoning for large-cap unicorns” by Rett Wallace of Triton Research....
...Her generosity was keenly felt in Beethoven’s G Minor Cello Sonata: two assertive chords and then one tender, yielding to Maisky’s veiled, vulnerable cello....
...This followed the “G-series” made by Germany in the 1930s and the “V-series” made by the UK in the 1950s. (New Scientist) Don't worry . . ....
...The family of the original architect, W G Newton, is among private benefactors who have helped to fund the project. The hall formally opened in November, commemorating the centenary of the Armistice....
...From the Financial Times in London, I'm Darren Dodd, and this is FT News. Can music make you sick?...
...Obituary — Douglas G Altman: statistician, researcher and driving force behind global initiatives to improve the reliability of health research (BMJ)....
...(FT) Video of the day The P&G/Peltz battle explained Activist investor Nelson Peltz and changing consumer habits are shaking up century-old company Procter & Gamble. (FT)...
...Prudential would also have to decide what to do with M&G, its asset management business....
...L&G was the most active provider in the de-risking market in 2016, completing 16 deals with combined assets of £3.3bn, followed by Scottish Widows, which completed four transfers with total assets of £1.5bn...
...Darren Woods, chief executive, said in a statement the company was supporting the new initiative because it “aligns closely with our longstanding principles”....
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