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...Israel-Hamas war: Israel’s second raid on Gaza’s al-Shifa hospital is stretching into its ninth day and shaping into the biggest battle of the nearly six-month war....
...If you owned rate-sensitive, high-risk stocks yesterday you have Unhedged’s permission to sell and take the rest of the year off (Carvana, Zillow, SoFi, et al rose 10 per cent or more)....
...The 76,500-tonne M/V Glory, registered in the Marshall Islands, was grounded while joining a southbound convoy near Al-Qantara, according to a shipping agency....
...Was this the year where Weiner et al. finally opened their eyes to the delights of boneless chicken, Domino’s pasta and sandwiches, or even the occasional salad?...
...Arnott et al estimate that stocks ejected from the S&P 500 actually outperformed new entrants by an average of 2,200 basis points in the year after the index rejig (FTAV has written about the index inclusion...
...Russell Hardy, chief executive of Vitol, said that while Russia had made progress in shielding itself from the effects of tougher sanctions affecting its seaborne crude that come into effect from December...
...We were very excited to be able to host Vice President Harris earlier this year....
...Small caps tend to be more volatile than blue-chip stocks both on the way up and down — and could be big medium-term winners if Kolanovic et al are right....
...Independent hawkers are in on the fun too: there’s even a new family-owned bakery in town, Buns from Home, that’s dedicated almost entirely to buns — chocolate, coconut, pistachio et al....
...The UAE has approved four vaccines for emergency use, those made by Sinopharm, Pfizer/BioNTech and Oxford/AstraZeneca, as well as the Russian-made Sputnik V jab....
...Trump et al v....
...Or, if the weather’s warm, try their signature Cappuccino Al Freddo, a frothy iced number whipped up in a milkshake maker....
...Parmensis’ “scabrous satire” about Octavian’s past finds an echo in Trump’s snarling taunting of his rivals — Lyin’ Ted, Sleepy Joe, et al....
...I don’t honestly think anyone gets up in the morning intent on finding a wine that tastes of dried strawberry, iodine, oyster shell, wet earth et al....
...Alec Russell FT Weekend editor I have read more enduring books this year than in any single year I can recall and yet one easily stands out: The Passenger....
...The Dictatorship Syndrome, by Alaa al Aswany, translated by Russell Harris Haus Publishing, RRP£12.99, 160 pages Understanding Libya Since Gaddafi, by Ulf Laessing, Hurst, RRP£17.99, 240 pages The Arab...
...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...
...He joined Christie’s in 2007 after leaving the V&A where he was first a research fellow, moving up to senior curator....
...“What you’re seeing is an expectation of a V-shaped recovery and that may prove to be too optimistic,” said one equity analyst....
...Josh Harris of Apollo Global Management and David Blitzer of Blackstone, are considering a bid for the New York Mets....
...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....
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