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...At €10bn, it would have an enterprise value-to-ebitda multiple far below rivals such as L’Oréal. In the battle for Chinese ecommerce, Alibaba is struggling to knock Temu from the top spot....
...Quick links to Lex Elsewhere in the world: UK chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s move to scrap domicile-based reliefs is radical and may not raise the mooted £2.7bn per year....
...It recalls the previous two records from the west African supergroup which were produced by Liam Farrell, aka Doctor L, best known for his work with Kinshasa noise band Mbongwana Star....
...Let Roger Moore in Gstaad be your style mentor this season. Or perhaps a young future King Charles, preparing for a chukka in his jodhpurs aside the polo field. Too formal?...
...Jeremy Hunt made big changes to the tax regime for so-called non-doms in his Budget, axing the colonial-era concept of domicile in tax and cutting the amount of time that people can benefit from the perks...
...Argylle himself is an international smoothie and master spy, played by Henry Cavill with a bog-brush haircut and a Roger Moore smirk....
...“The threat of global inheritance tax is huge,” said Tim Stovold, partner at Moore Kingston Smith....
...Outside Jeremy Offer’s home in the Chiltern hills stand two cars. One is a rare classic, a low-slung 1962 Volvo P1800 sports tourer of the kind Roger Moore drove in The Saint....
...Creativity expert Jeremy Utley, also at Stanford, says the “text-box” interface of apps such as ChatGPT invites queries from users, much like a Google search....
...He recommended that I listen to Miles Davis’s soundtrack for Ascenseur pour l’échafaud (Spotify link here)....
...Chancellor Jeremy Hunt ticked them off last month for supposedly indulging in “greedflation” — pushing prices up more than inflation....
...Rep Earl L Carter You know about the milk crate. You know about the blackout challenge. You know about the NyQuil chicken challenge....
...It’s as if Henry Moore and Alberto Giacometti have collaborated on dinner....
...Sir Richard Moore, head of British secret service MI6 since 2020, was knighted for his contribution to British foreign policy and national security during Russia’s invasion of Ukraine....
...If there is such a trade association as the Blouson Promotion Bureau, then it should erect a statue to Kendall Roy (played by Jeremy Strong) as he sported a seemingly limitless selection of blousons....
...L&G did not respond. The chancellor will reassure the City that he wants to work with pensions companies rather than telling them what to do....
...He remembers Jeremy Paxman’s famously aggressive Newsnight interview with the then home secretary Michael Howard. “I want that — with Sam Altman.”...
...“What’s opened the door to these improvements is the better than expected inflation figures,” said David Hollingworth, director at broker L&C Mortgages....
...L’Oréal purchased Aesop from Brazilian conglomerate Natura for $2.5bn last year, in a record deal that makes it the French beauty company’s highest-value acquisition to date....
...Meanwhile, Jeremy Hunt, the chancellor, has ruled out big pre-election tax cuts this autumn....
...The dish of apples — mela — is close to melos (melody), the trompe l’oeil fly — musca — alights on another score, musica....
...For a borrower with a £200,000 mortgage over 25 years on a standard variable rate of 7.99 per cent, their payments will rise by £67 a month — or £800 a year — according to broker L&C Mortgages....
...“I don’t think the chancellor will reverse any of the halving of the allowances . . . or change the rates of income tax,” said Tim Stovold, head of tax at accounting firm Moore Kingston Smith....
...Drawing à l’infini presents nearly a thousand works — notebooks, drawings and engravings. The drawings illustrate Picasso’s constant process of reinvention and renewal....
...“Prudential is focused on Asia and L&G is a social investor. What’s your one-sentence mission statement?” I asked, expecting a slick response. The man coughed. He took a drink of water....
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