Hints and tips:
...Former national security adviser Stephen J Hadley and former deputy secretary of state James B Steinberg will arrive in Taipei on January 14,” said the American Institute in Taiwan, Washington’s quasi-embassy...
...So timing the purchase of an annuity is very hard to judge....
...This is illustrated by UK foreign secretary James Cleverly’s remark that “Ukraine has a plan for winning the war and a plan for winning the peace”....
...Perhaps the most amusing piece this year was James B. Stewart’s examination of the apparently dodgy goings-on at high-end New York wine seller Sherry-Lehmann....
...Now they were here to tell the judge that relations with their client had broken down. “Essentially, you fired them?” asked the judge. “Yes,” said Ganieva....
...Shearman & Sterling partner James Duncan has quit the US law firm ahead of its merger with Allen & Overy to join Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in London....
...As a lender, he adds that mortgage providers are wary about being asked to judge the quality of work carried out to improve a home’s energy efficiency....
...The second song is Etta James’ ‘A Sunday Kind of Love’, foundational R&B. So I’ll pull it up....
...He doesn’t like the alternative, B&Q. Too many friends have been nicked there. “The security guards are going on like the fucking Viet Cong,” he says....
...James Smith (ING): The BoE is nearing the end of its tightening cycle....
...Because of the court order, the nine were identified in the reporting of the trial as Woman A, Woman B and so on....
...Sellier, California Polymath 1,010: Robert Jelly, Warwickshire Crossword 16,093: V Le Quesne, Salisbury; Sue Topham, Newark; Anthony Evans, Hove Polymath 1,009: AC Lambirth, Cyprus Crossword 16,087: Judge...
...Capacity already exceeded demand in 2019, and another 1.7m b/d, from Nigeria to Kuwait, is due on line this year. Demand, though, is down by 9m b/d....
...James Smith: UK inflation is likely to be noticeably lower in twelve months time....
...And we’ll give the last word to James B Stewart, the man who wrote the must-read book on Milken — Den of Thieves. You can read his column on why Milken can’t rewrite history here....
...The company carries a junk-rating of single-B and its bonds yield roughly 2 percentage points more than the average in the category, according to a bond index run by Ice Data Services....
...Finally, check out this article from Bloomberg on how US workers from teachers to firefighters to judges funded China’s booming tech companies....
...recede, writes Free Trade co-author James Politi....
...So far, it is hard to judge whether Uber or Ola - which was co-founded by Bhavish Aggarwal, a 33-year-old entrepreneur in Mumbai in 2011 - will prevail....
...But with so little data to go by in the UK and elsewhere around Europe, it is hard to judge the magnitude and timing of the recession....
...It is a metric worth noting; investors in the $9.5tn US corporate bond market now judge WeWork to be in distress....
...All right, so the way that we're going to judge these beers is a very, very complex system. I'm going to give you each a tab card....
...In January, he broke new ground when he allowed a manoeuvre by pro-EU MPs to force Mrs May to present a Brexit plan B if she lost a vote on her deal....
...“She must have a plan B,” said Anna Soubry, a pro-EU former trade minister....
...Focus is centred on the ballooning value of triple B rated bonds, the lowest investment grade category....
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