Hints and tips:
...The destination — Ithaka for Cavafy (as in Homer’s Odyssey) — isn’t the only point. Cavafy ended his poem: “If you find her poor, Ithaka won’t have fooled you....
...Shares in P&G rose 1 per cent in morning trading in New York....
...This extremely useful chart from Bespoke Investment breaks down performance for the year into the Faangs and the S&P excluding them....
...Today’s Lombard column focuses on Sky’s proposed takeover by Fox: Has Rupert Murdoch studied Homer?...
...HMRC chief executive Lin Homer is also appearing before the committee....
...Sebastian Faulks’s tribute to P.G....
...In Europe and Japan, optimism has all but vanished and Shiller p/e ratios are low....
...If Sidney Homer’s classic History of Interest Rates is any guide, this represents the lowest level of interest rates anywhere since Babylonian times. This is no aberration....
...If Sidney Homer’s classic History of Interest Rates is any guide, this represents the lowest level of interest rates anywhere since Babylonian times....
...The ratings agencies have already sounded the alarm, with S&P delivering a downgrade of Japanese debt in January....
...As well as visits to mainland Turkey and Greece, the MS Colombus anchors at Kos, Samos and Chios, which are associated respectively with Hippocrates, Pythagoras and Homer....
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...To buy it for the special FT Bookshop price of £7.99 plus p&p, tel: 0870 429 5884. ‘Hadrian: Empire and Conflict’, sponsored by BP, is at the British Museum from July 24 to October 26...
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...He’s the guy behind the P&O bid. Starting to see the connections?...
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