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...The Popeye and Brutus issues I hunt down most religiously are the travel specials....
...As Wachowiak et al correctly note, the recent pressures militating in favour of greater cooperation (Ukraine, a second Trump presidency, fiscal constraints), “have not, to date, proven sufficient to overcome...
...Meanwhile, Egypt goes to the polls at the weekend with President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi widely expected to win re-election despite an economic crisis including record inflation and foreign currency shortages...
...You never get to see a GP, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. All of this stuff. But they are very, very, very keen to talk about the fact that inflation has come down, right?...
...We've had Jeremy Hunt try and make a really dramatic pitch to the voters....
...Some good news The hunt for clean energy is taking new and unexpected turns. How about turning chicken feathers into electricity?...
...“In terms of the impact of globalisation and industrialisation, the nadir for Stoke was somewhere between 2005 and 2010,” says Tristram Hunt, director of London’s V&A museum and author of The Radical Potter...
...Today’s top stories The US Federal Reserve announces its interest rate decision today at 2pm ET/7pm London. Check back on FT.com for details and reaction....
...What about how concentrated the stock market gains are with Nvidia, Microsoft, Google et al? I mean, shouldn’t that weigh against this rally? What about that? Katie MartinMaybe yes....
...The plan’s financial details are due in chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s Autumn Statement on November 22....
...Today’s top stories The US Federal Reserve announces its decision on interest rates at 2pm ET/7pm London today. Check back here for details and reaction....
...But this is the landscape as it emerged after the December 2019 election at which Boris Johnson was triumphant....
...The recent rise of the Faangs, et al, looks like a knee-jerk reaction to the fall in rates and rate expectations that followed the banking mess (the 10-year yield has fallen from 4-ish per cent to 3.6-ish...
...Chancellor Jeremy Hunt this week stepped up pressure on the grocery sector to address the problem and yesterday met food manufacturers and competition regulators....
...By now Heseltine, wearing his trademark blue V-neck under a dark suit, is tucking into his soup....
...The newly-sworn in Iraqi government of Mohammed Shia al-Sudani is reeling from the “heist of the century” after $2.5bn was allegedly spirited away from tax authorities....
...But as Steven Kelly of the Yale Program on Financial Stability pointed out to me, Yellen et al will need the goodwill of the big banks should some other bank or banks get into trouble....
...In a tour de force for Scottish Ballet, however, choreographer Helen Pickett makes the case for translating Arthur Miller’s Salem-inspired The Crucible into dance — faux witches, Puritan paranoia et al....
...Et tu Brutus? Or in Boris Johnson’s case, Et pretty much everyone — Rishi, Sajid, even Priti for goodness sake (non-aficionados of UK politics should Google them)....
...His father’s company — then called the Al-Zahawi Group, but now known as Iraq Projects Business Development (IPBD) — quickly procured a contract to provide cleaning, logistics and support services to the...
...We have our evil leader for today (you-know-who in Moscow), but do Biden, Johnson, Macron et al fit the bill as statesmen?...
...In the case outlined by Haddad et al, Goltz said investors were buying a stock “even though the price has gone up”, so demand is more inelastic and “you can have additional volatility from shifts in demand...
...Or to quietly retire, as many of Johnson’s most committed political opponents did in 2019....
...And generally speaking, they are the stocks that have been hardest hit by the past, probably 12 to 14 months of regulatory crackdown under Xi Jinping, who has been sort of making Alibaba, Tencent et al feel...
...He’s only five percentage points behind Keir Starmer in the polls on who make the best prime minister as opposed to 20-something on the Labour v Tory one....
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