Hints and tips:
...Jeffery Zhang, a Nanjing-based software engineer, paid more than Rmb9,000 for a ventilator and an oxygen machine soon after Beijing eased restrictions....
...L’Oréal recently reported how an AI-powered app delivered a 63 percentage point uplift in the conversion rate of inquiries into sales compared with traditional counter selling methods....
...Analysts at Jefferies estimated that while overall tourist spending rose during the holiday this year, spending per tourist was down 9.5 per cent from 2019 levels....
...This is another painted room, with trompe l’oeil decoration by Fernand Renard....
...L’Ami Louis, Paris This place is no secret, and had in fact been on my list of Paris restaurants to try for a long time. Finally, one freezing night at the beginning of December, I got to visit....
...Here, for the sake of variety, is Jefferies’ version of the watch-flipper price tracker....
...Jefferies portrays the group as “caught between a bulk and a buyback”....
...“I don’t think anyone has raised any equity since late 2022,” said Matthew Hose, equity analyst at Jefferies. “They’ve had to adapt to this new environment....
...(Alphaville believes that using L’Oréal as an O is cheating, even if it makes your acronym look nicer.)...
...This year “hands off our bodies” should be the slogan Joe Biden uses to get voters to back him, says Edward Luce....
...At FT Globetrotter, we are particularly excited about the Pompidou Centre’s big Brâncuși show in March, the opening of Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson’s Paris bolt-hole, Villa Windsor, in the summer and,...
...fails majority / From Kai L Chan, Abu Dhabi, UAE Ivy League credentials of those ruling on education / From Harold J Smith, White Plains, NY, US...
...In a new paper, former White House climate adviser Paul Bledsoe and former trade official Edward Gresser suggest a neat solution: Europe could be cut in on some of the Inflation Reduction Act’s subsidies...
...Daniel Fannon, analyst at Jefferies, called the results “modestly worse” and said a lower tax rate accounted for much of the unexpectedly high earnings....
...Anyway, here are some Morgan Stanley charts: Venture activity has undergone its “[l]argest peak to trough swing in history”, writes analyst Edward Stanley....
...The Hotel Georgia quickly became popular with the well-heeled and famous, including Hollywood stars and royalty, from Laurence Olivier and John Wayne to future British king Edward, Prince of Wales, and his...
...Like bigger peers such as L&G, Just has a record pipeline of such deals in what is expected to be a record year for the market....
...There are embossed and gilded friezes, trompe l’oeil painted doors, William Morris wallpapers and ceramics arranged on a plate rail in the dining room....
...It was probably only a matter of time before Touriste – the independent collection of Paris hotels that has already worked with Chloé Nègre, Dorothée Meilichzon and FT Weekend contributor Luke Edward Hall...
...Edward East played a part in disrupting the advertising industry when he co-founded the influencer marketing agency Billion Dollar Boy in 2014....
...It was this imbalance in returns that was at the crux of a three-year campaign by activist Edward Bramson to scale back the UK’s last remaining global investment bank....
...The over-55s spend more time buying a car than managing their pension money, according to L&G. Older investors often have the benefit of experience....
...Since graduating, Gordon has painted marbled doors in the home of designer and FT columnist Luke Edward Hall, and has just completed a master bathroom, based on Dutch Golden Age interiors, in the home of...
...Michael L Stoltz Fort Worth, TX, US...
...Additional reporting by Cheng Leng in Hong Kong and Joe Leahy in Beijing Letter in response to this article: A generous offer of Covid drugs can reset China ties / From Michael L Stoltz, Fort Worth, TX...
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