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...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...
...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...
...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?...
...“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...
...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?...
...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....
...The plan’s financial details are due in chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s Autumn Statement on November 22....
...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...
...But this is the landscape as it emerged after the December 2019 election at which Boris Johnson was triumphant....
...By now Heseltine, wearing his trademark blue V-neck under a dark suit, is tucking into his soup....
...Chancellor Jeremy Hunt this week stepped up pressure on the grocery sector to address the problem and yesterday met food manufacturers and competition regulators....
...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)....
...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....
...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...
...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...
...We have our evil leader for today (you-know-who in Moscow), but do Biden, Johnson, Macron et al fit the bill as statesmen?...
...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....
...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...
...Whales like al-Zayat were highly sought after and highly demanding. Some could even refuse to pay their bills....
...As Lord David Pannick QC et al observed in a letter to the Times this week the doctrine of necessity requires “grave and imminent peril” to which the state in question has not contributed....
...All assets may perform badly under stagflation, but we’d rather own Pepsi, Johnson & Johnson, Kimberly-Clark, Bristol-Myers et al than sit and watch our cash lose its earnings power....
...Hackman Capital Partners, the owner of storied US studios where Citizen Kane and ET were filmed, has agreed to spend £300m over three years on transforming the site in Dagenham, east London....
...Former US vice-president Al Gore and financier David Blood are launching a climate change asset manager that will largely focus on private markets....
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