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...The construction company is one of the leading businesses contracted to build the mega-projects that have been a hallmark of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s regime....
...Starmer was originally proposing to have a shadow comprehensive spending review led by Jones....
...More seriously, Goetzman et al argue that art price changes are largely a function of wealth concentration....
...As Wachowiak et al correctly note, the recent pressures militating in favour of greater cooperation (Ukraine, a second Trump presidency, fiscal constraints), “have not, to date, proven sufficient to overcome...
...When Lily Jones, aka Lily Vanilli, was thinking how to mark 15 years of her East London bakery – which has made cakes for everyone from Elton John and Madonna to the V&A and 10 Downing Street – she knew...
...Additional contributions from Gary Jones...
...Jones Day has named 51 new partners....
...The UAE’s invitation to Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad has further sparked discontent in western capitals opposed to his diplomatic rehabilitation....
...The recent rise of the Faangs, et al, looks like a knee-jerk reaction to the fall in rates and rate expectations that followed the banking mess (the 10-year yield has fallen from 4-ish per cent to 3.6-ish...
...Arnott et al estimate that stocks ejected from the S&P 500 actually outperformed new entrants by an average of 2,200 basis points in the year after the index rejig (FTAV has written about the index inclusion...
...Et tu Brutus? Or in Boris Johnson’s case, Et pretty much everyone — Rishi, Sajid, even Priti for goodness sake (non-aficionados of UK politics should Google them)....
...Drummer Al Foster pares down his beats for an uplifting “Jean-Pierre”, Darryl Jones, now a longtime bassist for The Rolling Stones, is rock-solid, and guitarist John Scofield delivers rhythm and grit....
...In recent years, he has been marketing a highly lucrative legal strategy that has enabled Johnson & Johnson, Saint-Gobain, Trane Technologies and Georgia Pacific, which is owned by Koch Industries, to halt...
...But this is the landscape as it emerged after the December 2019 election at which Boris Johnson was triumphant....
...His father’s company — then called the Al-Zahawi Group, but now known as Iraq Projects Business Development (IPBD) — quickly procured a contract to provide cleaning, logistics and support services to the...
...We have our evil leader for today (you-know-who in Moscow), but do Biden, Johnson, Macron et al fit the bill as statesmen?...
...In the case outlined by Haddad et al, Goltz said investors were buying a stock “even though the price has gone up”, so demand is more inelastic and “you can have additional volatility from shifts in demand...
...Sheikh Jassim Bin Hamad Al Thani, the son of Qatar’s former prime minister, has made an offer to buy the club and clear its debts....
...As Lord David Pannick QC et al observed in a letter to the Times this week the doctrine of necessity requires “grave and imminent peril” to which the state in question has not contributed....
...Matrescence: On the Metamorphosis of Pregnancy, Childbirth and Motherhood by Lucy Jones (Allen Lane)Lucy Jones explores the concept of “matrescence” to address the physiological and psychological lacunae...
...And generally speaking, they are the stocks that have been hardest hit by the past, probably 12 to 14 months of regulatory crackdown under Xi Jinping, who has been sort of making Alibaba, Tencent et al feel...
...‘After the Tories ditch Johnson, they need to reset their values’ Boris Johnson’s premiership has been largely spent sabotaging his own “oven-ready” Brexit agreement and mismanaging Covid-19....
...But Johnson’s family firm Fidelity has leapfrogged it to become the world’s third biggest asset manager, with its $4.2tn only surpassed by BlackRock and Vanguard....
...V for Victory. With the Bank of England set to raise rates, the sooner the government gets its act together the better. Disagree? Thoughts in the usual place....
...All assets may perform badly under stagflation, but we’d rather own Pepsi, Johnson & Johnson, Kimberly-Clark, Bristol-Myers et al than sit and watch our cash lose its earnings power....
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