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...But I wanted it purely because Kim Basinger’s character Elizabeth McGraw has one on her desk in the art gallery where she works in 9½ Weeks – a film I saw through subterfuge, underage, at the now long-closed...
...My colleagues Dan McCrum and John Reed unpicked the paper trail to discover that two of Adani Group’s biggest “public” investors are associates of Vinod Adani, brother of the conglomerate’s founder Gautam...
...Most large consumer packaged goods groups, including P&G, are still operating on tighter margins than they were before the pandemic....
...By June next year, S&P Global is predicting the US default rate will rise to 4.5 per cent, up from 1.7 per cent at the start of 2023....
...Think of Eileen Gray’s E-1027 villa in France (1926-29) or Richard Neutra’s Los Angeles Lovell Health House (1927-29)....
...Additional reporting by Alistair Gray Letter in response to this article: Trump’s fundraisers must share some of the blame / From David C Speedie, Charlottesville, VA, US...
...Polymath 1,027: Christina Dyall, Chadwell Heath Crossword 16,194: Ross Casley, California; Stephen Payne, Cornwall; Iolanthe Lonergan, London Polymath 1,026: Simon Marks, London Crossword 16,188: Julia Gray...
...Michael C Fina, a well-known New York jeweller that shut its physical store in 2016 in an effort to shift online, closed for good earlier this year after almost 85 years in business....
...More strikingly, the poll found 80 per cent of those executives think that C-suite incentives should be more closely tied to long-term stakeholder metrics, rather than to shareholder returns alone....
...C Specialist) Apple faces shareholder vote on human rights policies (FT) Villains or visionaries?...
...Just over half are in mid-tier class B locations and about a fifth in out-of-favour class C....
...Headhunters say Hong Kong’s staid banking sector is seeing a jump in recruitment as newly licensed virtual banks from start-up WeLab, Standard Chartered and ZhongAn Online P&C Insurance, seek to snap up...
...Progress has been made, with women making up 21 per cent of S&P 500 board directors, according to Catalyst, a non-profit group....
...Additional reporting by Nicole Bullock, Mary Childs, Alistair Gray and Josephine Cumbo Letters in response to this article: Pensioners have been let down at every turn / From Robert C Conron Central bankers...
...S&P 500 financial stocks have gone up 35 per cent in the past year, twice as much as the index....
...Additional reporting by John Reed...
...● Sunny Uberoi has moved to S&P Capital IQ, part of McGraw Hill Financial, to lead its global communications team from Deloitte, where he was head of stakeholder engagement....
...Sompo Japan Insurance is the largest unit of NKSJ Holdings, the country’s third biggest property and casualty (P&C) insurer by market value....
...ICIS Heren, part of the Reed Elsevier publishing house, confirmed that “some companies did stop providing information” after November....
...Foley, US markets reporter, talk to the FT's Arash Massoudi about the US Department of Justice's fraud case against S&P and what the spectre of a $5bn-plus damages bill could mean for S&P's parent company McGraw-Hill...
...This compared with 2.2 per cent for 3-5 year US Treasury notes and 11.4 per cent for the S&P 500 US stock market benchmark, according to Aon Benfield....
...Shares in McGraw-Hill, the credit rating agency’s parent, also named as a defendant, have fallen 23 per cent since the lawsuit was first revealed on Monday....
...Agrium, meanwhile, decided to give cash back to shareholders, launching a C$900m (US$881m) tender offer to repurchase shares....
...In a filing late Friday, the company said it would double the pay of its chief executive Reed Hastings to $4m next year. Materials stocks rose 2 per cent....
...In Toronto the stock was 7 per cent higher at C$16.04 in early afternoon trading....
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