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...US president Joe Biden is meeting House speaker Kevin McCarthy and other top congressional leaders to address the threat of the nation defaulting on its debt....
...Former Rolls-Royce chief executive Warren East has joined carbon capture developer C-Capture as group chair....
...Many of the same individuals who opposed McCarthy’s Speakership also caused headaches for Paul Ryan and John Boehner, the two previous Republican Speakers....
...Michael Stott in London Kevin McCarthy wins US House Speakership on 15th round of voting Chief executive of South African utility Eskom revealed to have been poisoned Adani shares take $10.8bn hit after...
...And if no shortage of media has presented daughters as problems for their fathers to solve — from George C Scott and Liam Neeson trying to claim back their daughters from nefarious forces in Hardcore (1979...
...Many international currencies feature in coin watches, including Mexican pesos and Napoleon III French francs....
...The company was in a tight spot when it sought to fill the void left by John Foley....
...The most colourful lines came from John Ray III, FTX’s court-appointed chief executive, who trashed SBF’s management in a lengthy testimony before Congress....
...At 17, he got his big break when he was cast as a young soldier in the 1958 war film Dunkirk alongside Richard Attenborough, John Mills and Bernard Lee....
...“It was a total tinderbox in 1988,” said Gerard McCarthy, a postdoctoral fellow at NUS Asia Research Institute in Singapore. “Now you have a socio-economic reality that’s bad if not worse.”...
...Mr Biden has pledged to establish a new climate-focused advanced research division, ARPA-C, which would likely fall under the department’s remit....
...In fact, we repeatedly changed leaders during crises and think back to John Major or Winston Churchill succeeding Chamberlain or Lloyd George in the first one....
...Mr Sharpton addressed the crowds at the Lincoln Memorial, alongside Martin Luther King III....
...Common influenza has many of the same symptoms as Covid-19, according to Lisa Maragakis of John Hopkin’s School of Medicine....
...However, it also guided to net E&C margins (E&C is ~75% of revenues) of only 2.0-2.25% versus our prior forecast of 4.7% and a ‘normal’ expectation of 5-6%....
...FY20 guidance is for: i) NIM of 275-280bps, with company-compiled consensus currently sitting at 278bps; ii) opex of <£7.7bn, with C/I to be lower in FY20; iii) net AQR to be <30bps, which appears to assume...
...The division is margin dilutive to the Group at a c.13% operating margin (Group c.18-19%)....
...Consequently, we expect limited (c. 3%) growth in EBITDAR over FY20-23, despite improving RevPAR momentum....
...(iii) Such a property wealth tax would cause a large industry of tax avoidance....
...“The lease would need to be well structured to avoid it being sold on and that the land is used for other, less green, purposes,” said Kerry McCarthy, Labour MP for Bristol and an advocate of rewilding the...
...At Brent USD40/bbl, the sector FCF yield will still be at c. 3-4%, while balance sheets are strong....
...John Muellbauer: Monetary policy settings should stay on hold for now....
...He is also a senior partner and co-founder of OC&C Strategy Consultants and a former board member of Nationwide Building Society....
...They will applaud and admire a mixed programme of leotard or vest-and-knicker ballets but if the third act curtain goes up on a stageful of tidy tulle — Symphony in C, say, or Raymonda Act III — you will...
...iii) On the demand side, there are less concerns about a precipitous slowing in Chinese growth than there were in late 2015....
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