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...“GDP has been a consistently unreliable guide of the underlying performance of the Irish economy since 2015 in particular,” said Dermot O’Leary, chief economist at brokerage Goodbody....
...BASF, Europe’s largest chemicals group, said it would have to downsize “permanently” in Europe because of high energy costs....
...She has also donated and fundraised for Tate, the V&A, the Serpentine and the British Fashion Council, as well MoMA in New York, and these commitments augment her activities in India, her birthplace....
...That’s the target of Valuable 500’s “Gen V” mentoring scheme, which pairs a senior executive with a young disabled employee....
...Corporation tax is a tax on investment not on shareholders, corporation tax revenue should be reduced to zero....
...“Here, the focus has mainly been on FMCG [fast moving consumer goods] products,” says Victoria Waugh, co-founder of V&V Sustainability Consultancy....
...On the same evening, the investment bank Evercore hosted an Ibiza-themed dinner and cocktails evening at Soho House with a “summer white” dress code and a performance from Groove Armada....
...Next week we spend the whole episode on the likely repeal of Roe v Wade and the right to abortion in America....
...On Monday Janet Yellen, US Treasury secretary, set out plans for a global minimum corporation tax on the eve of the spring meetings of the IMF and World Bank....
...There will be no fast, perfect, V-shaped recovery for economies given the substantial areas that remain damaged....
...Weighing in at ~7,000 words and with 84 references, G4S’s Wiki “controversies surrounding . . .” rap sheet is longer than the ones for the Legion of Christ and Grand Theft Auto V, though not quite as long...
...An early paper published by the Rand Corporation is The Prediction of Social and Technological Events (1949)....
...The poor performance of US-listed Chinese companies has heightened concerns over corporate governance....
...John Ruggie, a Harvard professor and human rights expert, agrees that “a defensiveness about the role of the corporation in modern society” has contributed to the rethink....
...For example, the top five lithium producers — Albemarle, Jiangxi Ganfeng Lithium, Livent Corporation, SQM, Tianqi Lithium Corporation — have all faced allegations of corruption, tax avoidance or violating...
...In contrast to many big corporations, Ineos runs a lean central office, staffed by just 40 people....
...management is guiding for volumes this year to be down c.40% and there will be a “knock on impact on 2021 delivery”, broadly in line with our expectations for FY20 volumes -39% and FY21 -19% below 19 levels; v)...
...Idexx said in October that the animal health market had experienced a “V-shaped recovery”....
...Land prices reflect the performance of the whole economy....
...And I applaud Andy Burnham, mayor of Greater Manchester, for using his devolved powers to establish a mayoral development corporation, or MDC, in Stockport....
...(FT) Warren v Wall Street? Elizabeth Warren is one of the country’s most prominent critics of Wall Street firms and big banks....
...Computer servers, sitting on steel racks beneath its giant display, track social media, art pricing sites and the performance of the FTSE 100 index....
...How much of economic performance is down to feelings?...
...The questions are, first, whether this can be done in a way that improves economic performance in the eurozone; second, whether the current shape of the banking union does this as well as it can; and third...
...City editors were famously well informed about companies’ performance, often before their results went public....
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