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...By the end of the year OCI had agreed to offload two fertiliser holdings for about $3.6bn apiece, to the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company and Koch Industries of the US....
...The Treasury said that between 2016 and 2022, UK trade in financial and insurance services with Switzerland grew by 53 per cent — reaching £3.28bn in 2022....
...Shares in UBS climbed 4.3 per cent on Friday following the news. It could also help UBS in negotiations [with the government] over keeping the Credit Suisse’s domestic business, Coombs added....
...On December 3 2008, Alex Widmer, Julius Baer’s chief executive and Collardi’s mentor, killed himself....
...Caret is the marginal sign, like an inverted V, that means “it is missing” or “there is a lack”....
...Walk 3: Museum für Gestaltung A short walk from the Hauptbahnhof is the original Museum für Gestaltung (design museum)....
...Here’s the FT’s Sam Jones who covers Switzerland....
...This is a commercial solution,” said Swiss finance minister Karin Keller-Sutter....
...Polling shows that more than three-quarters of Swiss citizens are opposed to the $3.25bn takeover, which will create a financial behemoth with more than SFr5tn ($5.4tn) of assets under management....
...Until August 25; further information and tickets here From Maria Callas to Elton John via Grace Jones and Cher, Diva celebrates “the power and creativity of iconic performers” across art, fashion, film,...
...The V and M Houses, so called because their footprints resemble the letters, have glass facades, allowing you to peer, voyeur-like, into the apartments, replete with their spiky balconies....
...At the entrance I find Greenough shuffling about in a V-neck cricket jumper and a marshal’s jacket....
...Tiered ambitiously across 3,000 square metres of the Art Garden, Jones’s work will respond to the site and its history and — perhaps controversially — underline fire’s regenerative power....
...The Warrior’s favourite place to source his peacoats is Peter Jones, obvs, but he’s partial to an occasional deep dive into an army surplus store now and then, too....
...The best gift I’ve given recently is a Creality Ender-3 Pro rapid prototyping machine, which prints 3D designs....
...With more than 3,000 works of art in the Intoart collection, the simplest way to show support is to make a purchase, with prints (from £20), ceramics and fashion accessories by both emerging and established...
...are invited to customise €3,500 eyewear and handbags priced from €8,500 to €15,000....
...Michael Adams for Baden-Baden, Luke McShane for Werder Bremen, and Gawain Jones for Munich, all played the No1 board for their respective teams....
...Embellished with 3,582 biscuit-fired ceramic tiles, each hand-inscribed by Hitchins with Aztec-inspired, abstract designs – a cache of some 2,000 similar terracotta tiles was also unearthed from the loft...
...Puzzle 2424 Maxime Vachier-Lagrave v Ian Nepomniachtchi, Grand Tour Paris Rapid 2021. White to move. France’s No 1 was three pawns down and faced with a disastrous discovered check....
...Patrick Glynn-Jones, head of Strutt & Parker’s Winchester office, says that a five- bedroom detached house came up in the summer and sold for about £1.5m....
...I'm Karen Jones. I work for the Aerospace Corporation. We are a federally-funded research and development centre. And I focus on game-changing technologies in the space sector....
...Charted waters looks into the rollout of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine....
...On December 3, the Irish delegates were back in Dublin with a bleak draft for cabinet....
...Russian president Vladimir Putin made Sputnik V the world’s first registered vaccine last August before phase 3 trials had even begun, alarming scientists who said Moscow was cutting corners in a rush to...
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