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...Rivals H&M and Zara owner Inditex reported net profits of SKr8.7bn ($820mn) and €5.4bn ($5.8bn) respectively in their most recent fiscal years....
...“As a macro strategist, this is what I dream about,” said John Butler, head of macro at Wellington Management in London. “This is the best macro environment I’ve experienced in 30 years.”...
...When Butler later won a Bafta, Bennett was the first person he thanked. We kept in touch....
...A balloon filled with pure joy was flying over crypto land for a few weeks after a US district judge’s hearing the SEC’s Ripple case led the crypto faithful to declare victory over hated foe Gary Gensler...
...With the help of local carpenters Nick Simco and Jacob Habron, stonemason Gary Balman and his father Tony Short (a builder who specialised in historical homes), and 12 months of hard graft, Bonfield started...
...Costco has appointed Gary Millerchip as its next chief financial officer. He joins from Kroger....
...And most important: does “Political Gary [Gensler]” imply the existence of an “Apolitical Gary [Gensler]”?...
...¯\_(ツ)_/¯ As senator Gary Peters — one of the authors of the Dodd-Frank Act — wrote to regulators including Gary Gensler and Jay Powell in March: Section 956 of Dodd-Frank was intended to require financial...
...(H/T Toby Nangle)...
...Those with celebrity provenance also drive up the price; Michael Caine’s 1968 Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow Drophead Coupe recently sold for £135,000 at H&H Classics....
...In the later game Portugal, the winners of Group H, play Switzerland from Group G....
...In Group H, Ghana play Uruguay and South Korea play Portugal. Today’s matches follow a dramatic night in Doha that saw 2014 champions Germany knocked out of the tournament....
...Brad H Birmingham, AL, US Thank you for all the responses and do keep them coming. They may feature in a future edition of FirstFT....
...NON-FICTION JANUARY Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia by Gary J Bass (Picador/Knopf) A magisterial history of the trial of Japan’s wartime leaders — the largely overlooked...
...Banks have tapped $12bn of liquidity from the Fed’s brand-new Bank Term Funding Program, or BTFP, according to the latest H.4.1. release....
...His role was never the all-seeing butler-god of most sci-fi androids....
...The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forwardby Daniel H Pink, Canongate £16.99/Riverhead Books $28 Daniel H Pink memorably describes regret as the “photographic negative” of a good life....
...“They’d blow up,” says Gary Chapman, who runs the YouTube channel Gary Vapes. “In the very beginning, you’d see that happening quite a bit, which was a shame. It gave vaping a bad name.”...
...(Our emphasis, H/T Kadhim): 3....
...In today’s world, the idea that “it doesn’t matter whether a country makes computer chips or potato chips,” a quip attributed to Michael Boskin, an economic adviser to George H.W....
...From a different perspective, Gary Gerstle’s The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era traces how the western world embraced “neoliberalism” and the creed of...
...Retailers including H&M and Nike have closed stores, while international brewers, such as Heineken and Carlsberg, are divesting their Russian divisions....
...Undoubtedly, one of the main reasons to get you all shook up is the startling performance by relative newcomer Austin Butler as the man himself....
...“The Fed has to have the most stringent rules because its leaders have access to the most important information that you can make the most money on in the quickest period of time,” said Gary Richardson,...
...“The reports of this financial activity by Fed officials raise serious questions about possible conflicts of interest and reveal a disregard for the public trust,” Warren wrote in a letter to Gary Gensler...
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