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...Brad Stone, ‘The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon’ (2013) Favourite: Titan: The Life of John D Rockefeller Sr, by Ron Chernow....
...About four in every 10 apples sold in M&S are Pink Lady....
...UK business activity grew marginally in November, according to new S&P Global/Cips PMI data....
...Demanding it slash costs and narrow its portfolio, the fund installed two board members — John Wilder, executive chair of Bluescape Energy Partners, with which it had launched the campaign, and Barry Smitherman...
...Enlightenment by Sarah Perry (Jonathan Cape)The bestselling author of 2016’s eerie, gothicky The Essex Serpent and 2018’s Melmoth returns with a new story set again in eastern England, following a pair of...
...But the other half came through acquisitions, including investments in healthier snacks such as Kind bars and 2017’s $9.1bn purchase of a veterinary services business called VCA....
...His allegations are only getting wilder. The longer the Republican party tolerates this pyromania the greater the damage to America’s democratic culture....
...According to Johns Hopkins University data, 13 of the 712 people on board who were infected died. At the time it made up the single biggest cluster of cases outside China....
...Olsson, Mahon and Cooper on drums and percussion made for a formidable rhythmic unit, bringing an intense uplift in volume to “Levon”’s stirring climax....
...In July 1989, George Bush Sr promised: “For the new century, back to the Moon, back to the future, and this time back to stay!”...
...Elliott, Paul Singer’s $35bn activist investing firm, is working together with Bluescape Resources, a private investment firm run by John Wilder that focuses on investments in upstream oil and gas, power...
...There has been a cyber security ETF (with the predictable ticker symbol HACK) since late in 2014, and it has been lagging the S&P since then....
...Over the past 10 years, in dollar terms, the FTSE-Eurofirst 300 has underperformed the S&P 500 by more than 50 per cent. This is mostly about valuation....
...Gasa led off again and we followed at wide intervals, enjoying the sensation of having a mountainside to ourselves and carving huge, fast S-shapes across its face....
...His father John Sr — the once “indestructible”, fun-loving “Keith Richards of law” in the eyes of his son — died in February at age 81. The loss has left him pensive....
...The FTSE-Eurofirst 300 started its sharp rally against the S&P last Thursday, when traders arrived at work to news of a setback for the populist Geert Wilders in the Dutch election, and of what was regarded...
...First, political risks in the EU are perceived to have fallen significantly since last week’s election in the Netherlands, which saw a reverse for the populist Geert Wilders....
...William S Burroughs, meet John le Carré. Both at risk of ruin, the lovers know that their “romantic motto” must be that dismal credo of the cold war stand-off: “mutually assured destruction”....
...The risk is that her threats to walk away will only serve to harden the EU-27′s stance. The big bet Mrs May raised the stakes by demanding an ambitious trade deal is agreed by the end of 2018....
...He was John Wayne half-morphed into Humphrey Bogart, except that Douglas kept a prairie wolf ferocity about him always....
...Bill Clinton asked Hillary to run a healthcare task force, while John F Kennedy made his brother Robert attorney-general....
...For all the digital sheen, the result is more profoundly old-fashioned than John Schlesinger’s adaptation of 1967....
...You heard me talk about M*A*S*H. Do people think they can do better than M*A*S*H? Or The Twilight Zone? Or Hill Street Blues?” But something clearly changed in television, I say....
...John Pierpont Morgan For better or worse, John Pierpont Morgan shaped the modern American economy and the financial services industry that serves it, writes John Authers....
...After all, not since John Adams and his son John Quincy Adams in the early 19th century has America had a family with two successive generations of presidents in its gene pool....
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