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...In a minute or so, the foremost birds had formed a wide, V-shaped echelon, pointing their way northward up the coast....
...They join conference panels also adorned by Tony Blair and Al Gore. Nemesis A proportion of the businesses crash and burn amid fraud accusations....
...The second is an article on Anglo-Greek wrangling over the return of Parthenon Marbles hoarded by the British Museum, written by George Parker et al....
...Michael McCarthy, author and former politics lecturer, has chronicled the life of the historical Richard Whittington, whose career spanned the reigns of Richard II, Henry IV and Henry V, and in Citizen of...
...The authoritarian leader this week buried the hatchet with his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah al-Sisi....
...This is just another cheque of that size,” the chair of the Saudi National Bank told the FT’s Samer Al-Atrush, referring to the sum that Michael Klein returned home with after the lender purchased a near...
...Guthrie at WisdomTree says the FCA’s directive “was primarily focused on CFDs [contracts for difference], leveraged products et cetera. There were people offering 100 times leverage on bitcoin before....
...The King continues to dispute claims that he ordered the killing of the rightful monarch Edward V and his younger brother Richard, then imprisoned in the Tower of London....
...The so-called stakes of activist investors need greater scrutiny, writes head of Lex Jonathan Guthrie....
...Trump et al v....
...Dear readers, Will the recovery be shaped like a V, a U, or Nike’s “swoosh” symbol? There is much discussion on this quasi-theological question....
...jonathan.guthrie@ft.com Letters in response to this column: Focus on the haystack — not on the needles / From Brendan P Geary, Washington, DC, US Active v passive: put more faith in market forces / From...
...Jonathan Guthrie (“The fallacy of passive fund management”, January 16) places too little faith in market forces....
...Jonathan Guthrie Head of Lex Best of Lex articles HK stocks/extradition bill: derailed HK unrest/Singapore banks: safe harbour Hong Kong v Shenzhen: Central casting HKEX: futures shock Ferguson/Brexit...
...For example, in a 2010 opinion (Chevron Corp v Steven Donziger, et al) handed down from the US district court in Manhattan, the judge wrote that the “evidence at trial established that Donziger, a New York...
...Instagram v influencers Instagram’s recent shift to facilitate more direct ecommerce on the platform is likely to provide a new source of revenue for influencers....
...(FT, Politico) The passive fund fallacy Passive fund management is a big success built on a big fallacy, writes Jonathan Guthrie....
...Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
...(Incidentally, for my money, Cronenberg’s scuffed aesthetic has dated at least a little better than the gleaming postmodernism of Neo and Trinity et al.)...
...And, as lockdown measures are softened, the return of the likes of Gregg's, Starbucks et al to the UK FtG market will increase competition....
...There’s not much precedent to support the idea that Shina et al can walk away based on a MAC clause: WPP was forced against its will to buy Tempus in 2001, Guy Hands couldn’t scrap a bid for East Surrey...
...Many French cinema owners, who are putting pressure on Cannes to resist Netflix et al, see the streamers’ disruptive attitude as an incursion into their territory....
...(WSJ) Video of the day The business of climate change The head of our Lex column Jonathan Guthrie explains the knock-on effects of global warming for politicians, businesses and investors, from farming...
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...Along with the powerhouses of LVMH, Kering et al, niche indie designers are also carving out an aesthetic mixing west and east in a way that is both credible and commercially viable....
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