Hints and tips:
...This may be an improbable thought for my regular readers, but people sometimes tell me I’ve got a downer on the World Trade Organization. A WTO grouch, they call me....
...We’ve previously discussed here the scourge of (as my kids say) “Debbie Downer” colleagues and how their misery spreads as easily as melted butter....
...Speaking in the lilting tones of his native North Carolina, Mack says the peak of the credit boom last summer was “like getting high”; now the downer’s arrived....
...University Dr Sarah J Darby, Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford Dr John Downer, Global Insecurities Centre, University of Bristol Dr Ian Fairlie, Vice President CND Dr Phil Johnstone...
...(FT) Venezuela debt downer Sticking with markets and JPMorgan is all but removing Venezuelan debt from its widely followed emerging market bond benchmarks....
...What we’re reading Davos downer Davos is the Swiss ski resort where every year the world’s elite from the worlds of business, finance and public policy meet....
...Alexander Downer, Australia’s high commissioner in London, says it should be possible to agree a far-reaching deal soon after Britain has left the EU....
...One delegate asked about those plans, saying: “How can we be sure that you do not have some kind of downer on aspiration?”...
...Australia’s former Liberal foreign minister Alexander Downer has accused Gillard of “whingeing”, arguing that while sexist barbs were sometimes thrown in her direction, she should have risen above them....
...But for some delegates, the snow seems to be a bit of a downer – adding to the discomfort of Davos....
...Gordon Brown, the UK’s prime minister, may be asking just that when he learns of yet another critical comment from the governor of the Bank of England....
...His decision to go to the Bali conference, which Mr Howard had not planned to attend, was welcomed by Gordon Brown as a “very important factor” in the next stage of climate talks....
...His decision to go to Bali, which Mr Howard had not planned to attend, was welcomed by Gordon Brown, the UK prime minister, as a “very important factor” in the next stage of the global climate talks....
...Rothschild traced tales that Peter Mandelson had “dripped poison” about Gordon Brown back to a fellow guest – Osborne....
...It said the key challenge for Gordon Brown would be juggling this issue....
...Alexander Downer (Liberal leader at 42, former leader at 43) has been Australia’s foreign minister for the past decade....
...Gordon Ramsay, an energy analyst at UBS in Sydney, said while Greater Sunrise was once one of the most advanced projects for Woodside, the Perth-based company was ?...
...And while we’re on downers, there’s the pension fund deficit of £228m, which would be expensive and politically delicate to sort out. So they may get cold feet....
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