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...john.reed@ft.com Letter in response to this column:Cricket, like elections, is a time-consuming spectacle / From Rajiv Radhakrishnan, London NW8, UK...
...In contrast, 13 of the 65 companies scored had rock-bottom scores of five or less out of 100....
...Sir John Armitt, chair of the National Infrastructure Commission, has hit out at a drive to push pension schemes to invest more in Britain, saying there is “no reason” funds should have a home bias....
...Since mid-May, NRG’s shares have risen 47 per cent, compared with a 10 per cent loss for the S&P 500 utilities index. Shares of NRG fell 1 per cent in early trading on Monday....
...William Cohan, ‘The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co’ (2007) Favourite: Point of No Return, by John Marquand....
...First, they tried McKinsey’s statistical approach on S&P 500 companies, and found no significant relationship. Second, they fault McKinsey’s methodology....
...We sat in a coffee shop beneath a shelf of books on the geology of the region by the writer John McPhee....
...But being a partner in Goldman Sachs in 2024 no longer means what it once did....
...About four in every 10 apples sold in M&S are Pink Lady....
...If the Fed is satisfied with waiting for price growth to return to 2 per cent, he added, “there’s no reason to have too weak an economy in 2024....
...May 16 to October 13; further information and tickets here ‘Fragile Beauty: Photographs from the Sir Elton John and David Furnish Collection’, V&A South Kensington The couple’s extraordinary private collection...
...There was no liquidity in S&P 100 options....
...After 13 years of litigation, the end is still not in sight: Sherborne is demanding damages from the publisher of the Daily Mail, for claimants including Harry and Sir Elton John....
...Five more top stories 1....
...I’d be no better than equal weight.” So far this year, the S&P banks index is down about 12 per cent, while the benchmark S&P 500 has risen more than 13 per cent....
...ASUS’s Zenbook range boasts peak brightness of 550 nits or more (a standard laptop is around 250 to 300), and the S 13 has additional plus points....
...The event is free; no tickets required....
...The number of firms with regional headquarters in Hong Kong fell to 1,411 last year from 1,541 in 2019, while the total number of employees in these companies dropped more than 30 per cent during the period...
...NRG’s share price surged, becoming the best-performing stock on the S&P 500 index that year....
...Elsewhere, logistics revenues rose by 1.7 per cent to £335mn....
...And the high-yield market is now worth $1.4tn. Now, that may sound like a lot, but that’s a 13 per cent contraction from its high mark in 2021. Harriet Clarfelt covers credit for the FT....
...“By combining high adoption rate[s] with slight reductions in the herd, we can achieve the targets,” he said....
...There are no gags in it,” he says....
...Remember the Engine No. 1 vs Exxon proxy war? That feels like a different era. I’d love to hear from shareholders, so please write in....
...EMAIL - NOV 13 FROM: SAM BANKMAN-FRIED TO: JOHN RAY Hey John, I’d be super happy to chat — here, phone, etc.!...
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