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...Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin has a notable number of paintings, as did the late Genesis P-Orridge – founder of industrial sound provocateurs Throbbing Gristle....
...S&P Global Ratings said in a report on Thursday that triple C borrowers would “contend with weak cash flow and elevated interest expenses this year”, while “defaults in 2024 [would] largely come from consumer-facing...
...Some would probably argue that more information is not the same as better information . . . but c’mon....
...His paintings answer TS Eliot’s call to modernism in “The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock”, writes Jackie: “It is impossible to say just what I mean!...
...“The penny [is] dropping that actually higher for longer means higher for longer,” said Mark Dowding, chief investment officer at RBC BlueBay Fixed Income....
...Mark FitzPatrick, a former chief executive of Prudential, has emerged as the leading candidate to replace incumbent Andrew Croft....
...Sector optimism, however, isn’t universal, with a question mark still hanging over office property....
...HR positions are now more likely to be considered part of the “C-suite” than five years ago....
...Head Lines [Hi-res] Mark Zuckerberg Warren Buffett Rachel Reeves Gautam Adani Andrew Bailey Christine Lagarde Janet Yellen Sam Bankman-Fried Mark Carney Elon Musk Sharon White Sundar Pichai...
...US private equity investor J Christopher Flowers has warned that a dramatic increase in private credit investments by life insurers is creating systemic risk for investors....
...In a choppy session for equity markets, Wall Street’s benchmark S&P 500 closed 0.9 per cent lower and the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite dropped 1.5 per cent....
...Facebook’s parent company Meta spent the most among S&P 500 companies for a CEO’s personal air travel, reporting $2.3mn on private flights for Mark Zuckerberg....
...Chart from S&P Global, through September: Part of the reason for this is that companies are making money....
...Spelthorne Borough Council look like they’ve laddered their debt payments pretty evenly, with an average loan of 2.33 per cent on their c£1.1bn of borrowings, and an average maturity of 2049....
...This is partly because Next Fifteen made an offer for rival M&C Saatchi in May, which only fell apart in October....
...The revision might be modest, but it marks the first time S&P, an authority on global output, has upped its production forecast in five years....
...The veteran Everett attempts an audacious rewriting of Mark Twain, and delivers a story bristling with atmosphere, sadness and sly wit....
...Whole books could be written about the history of both, but fundamentally the blueprint for what we’re seeing currently at Dior Men, Juun J, Rick Owens and Sacai, is the MA-1 flight jacket....
...One market-watcher we spoke to yesterday, Mark Hackett of Nationwide, thinks the S&P 500 is fresh out of technical support, and will need better fundamentals to rise much higher. What say you?...
...Revenues have been flat for the past seven years, according to S&P CIQ data, which means they are falling in real terms....
...Campaigners and politicians have also called for curbs on executive pay as the gulf widens between the C-suite and lower level employees....
...Mark Weidemaier and Mitu Gulati teach classes on international debt at the Universities of North Carolina and Virginia and co-host the podcast Clauses and Controversies....
...Mark Gregory and Vicky Jarman are stepping down from the board of UK gambling group Entain....
...In May, a Chinese J-16 fighter flew very close to an Australian spy plane, releasing chaff, including pieces of aluminium, that was sucked into the engine of the P-8 surveillance aircraft....
...(NGL, we love it when analysts drop an exclamation mark in)....
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