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...Bonds issued by some of the companies hit hardest by coronavirus, including cruise operator Carnival Corporation, have rallied vigorously over the past year, rewarding investors who were prepared to gamble...
...Plus, the FT’s capital market’s correspondent Rob Smith explains how Carnival Corporation managed to persuade investors to put their money into the ailing cruise company....
...with the Carnival Corporation share price....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...Eleven Rings : The Soul of Success, by Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty, Penguin Press, $27.95, 368 pages Jackson isn’t just a revered American basketball coach; this son of Pentecostal ministers is also...
...And destroy the Bank of the United States Jackson did, vetoing the Senate’s renewal of its charter in 1832 and running for re-election as the champion of People v Monster....
...Stiles’s superbly written book argues that the main legacy of the “robber baron” and “railroad king” was the giant but invisible corporation, so big that it was able to crush its competitors....
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