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...Today’s big read Harvey Schwartz, a former Goldman Sachs banker who took the helm of the private equity firm a year ago, after a fumbled succession from co-founders David Rubenstein and Daniel D’Aniello...
...The Institut International d’Etudes Bancaires is just that....
...Director Jamie Lloyd gradually allows the subtlety to disperse in mass shouting, a disagreeable effect exacerbated by the actors being mic’d up....
...Last week’s auction, organised by Phillips in association with Bacs & Russo at the annual Geneva Watch Days fair, offered 15 lots donated by brands to fund a scholarship at the Ecole d’Horlogerie de Genève...
...Also, RICS residential market house price survey US: monthly retail sales figures Results: Bunzl trading statement, Capita trading update, Costco Wholesale Q1, Currys HY, Nordson Q4, Serco FY Friday...
...The idea was that as new leases pass into the CPI, which also includes existing leases, you’d see convergence....
...Reese Witherspoon sold her company Hello Sunshine to Blackstone for $900mn in 2021, for example, and Blackstone-backed Candle Media took a $60mn stake in Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith’s Westbrook Inc...
...By the time Salvatore left the San Gregorio d’Ippona meeting, he had secured the funds. Now he needed to send his men to Medellín to inspect the drugs with their own eyes....
...The idea is to share the bounty of a legal cannabis industry with those who bore the brunt of the government’s war on drugs. Will it work?...
...“If this is the trough right now, I’d take this as a trough in any cycle because activity just hasn’t stopped,” said Oliver Lütkens, BNP Paribas’ co-head of advisory for Europe, the Middle East and Africa...
...Itamar SrulovichLike normally you’d think salads is like the summer vegetables, tomatoes and cucumbers....
...Company earnings Retailers will once again be in focus with discount retailers Ross Stores, BJ’s Wholesale Club and Kohl’s reporting first-quarter results....
...I’d died and gone to Top Gear heaven....
...I’d recommend reading this moving piece on lockdown loneliness by the FT’s Claire Bushey....
...Colby Smith and Kate Duguid assess its prospects for success. America and China — the defining relationship Competitive co-operation or containment?...
...Co-founder Paul Sengh seemed stoic as FTX began to collapse: Watch this space?...
...Have you spotted some good news stories you’d like to share with FT readers? Please send them to us at disruptedtimes@ft.com....
...Firstly, I recognise that even though wholesale energy prices have been falling, there is still enormous pressure on family finances....
...Not once, since he’d left the casino, had he run. He’d walked at a moderate pace the entire time. He’d never even looked back....
...Needham and D. Hotson. Charlie Bean: Few downturns are exactly alike....
...It must count as one of the most mind-bending experiences of my life, and no drugs were involved....
...Square, which was co-founded by Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey, is paying $297m in cash and stocks....
...The arthritis drug tocilizumab accelerates recovery in coronavirus patients admitted to hospital, an extensive UK trial has confirmed....
...But don’t be put off by the escalator climb: you’d come to Open House for the soaring, light-suffused, wall-less space alone....
...He sat there and talked to them about Plato, and they listened.”...
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