Hints and tips:
...Boris Johnson conducted a freelance diplomatic policy that contradicts the UK’s, visiting Venezuela for a hedge fund that seeks better relations between London and Caracas....
...Lazard has hired Charles Noel-Johnson to be co-head of European restructuring. He joins from Moelis & Company. White & Case has hired Patrick Sarch to be head of UK public M&A....
...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...
...You never get to see a GP, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. All of this stuff. But they are very, very, very keen to talk about the fact that inflation has come down, right?...
...circular ringroads — by current Labour mayor Khan....
...Private sector investment in green tech is also exploding as Al Gore, the former US vice-president, explained with passion at a Moral Money party that I co-hosted with Imagine’s Valerie Keller, at my home...
...Today’s top stories The US Federal Reserve announces its interest rate decision today at 2pm ET/7pm London. Check back on FT.com for details and reaction....
...When it came crashing down, so too did their violent reign, the FT’s Miles Johnson reports....
...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...
...Saudi-backed LIV emerged on the golf scene last year spending hundreds of millions of dollars to lure top golfers such as Brooks Koepka, Phil Mickelson and Dustin Johnson to join its breakaway league....
...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)....
...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...
...Here’s a quick list of recent mega-transactions either in the works or agreed: Johnson & Johnson agreed to buy cardiovascular technology group Abiomed for $16.6bn including debt....
...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...
...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....
...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....
...But dumping the cynical first-person narration that distinguished The Big Sleep et al may not have been a prudent move....
...We’re doing something new, trialling an experiment with audio newsletters read by Microsoft Azure Al....
...Boris Johnson ruled out further Covid restrictions in England before Christmas, but warned more measures may be necessary after the weekend....
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