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...The wine list mixes traditionalist gems such as Pierre Gonon St Joseph and Egon Müller “Scharzhof” with naturalista domaines that have long been ubiquitous....
...“This is a point of minimum — rather than maximum — confidence,” as Joseph Gagnon of the Peterson Institute told the FT last week....
...“After the money I’d spent on two surveys and the legal costs, there was just no way.”...
...“You just write a text of what you’d like to see,” Blokhin says (£30,000 each)....
...Expectations are that S&P 500 second-quarter earnings fell 7 per cent from a year ago. If we were betting men we’d take the over, given the effervescent economic backdrop....
...Carlyle would also need to generate total shareholder returns higher than 60 per cent of companies in the S&P 500 index every year....
...As of January 1, US crude oil refining capacity averaged 17.9mn b/d, the lowest since 2014, according to the US Energy Information Administration....
...If you want some idea of a way forward, I’d recommend the Weekend essay on what the Cold War taught us about containing Russia....
...The forward price/earnings ratio of the S&P 500 is 17.5. The FTSE 100 is on nine....
...Letter in response to this article: Another myth-busting fact about share buybacks / From Joseph von Zanten, King’s College London, London WC2, UK...
...I’d like to look at some books for interiors inspiration, having had enough of Pinterest boards. Any recommendations? Amen! Look, the internet is a magical thing....
...Sometimes we don’t have the R&D and the workers . . . There are a whole lot of deficiencies.”...
...Facebook’s P/E is cheap relative to peers and the market, but it is not fantastically cheap relative to its own history. It traded at a mid-teens P/E just a few years ago....
...“The mood is increasingly dark,” said Tara Joseph, president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong....
...Joseph P Joyce M Margaret Ball Professor of International Relations, Department of Economics, Wellesley College, MA, US Letter in response to this letter: An economist’s wry take on first lesson of politics...
...Needham and D. Hotson. Charlie Bean: Few downturns are exactly alike....
...Coronavirus digest Global equities set a new record high on Thursday, following a record close for the S&P 500 on Wednesday on hopes for an economic recovery....
...High-end brands like Joseph Altuzarra, La Perla, and Roland Mouret have joined since....
...If the rig count continued to fall, production growth in Appalachia would correspondingly ease to about 1bn cu ft/d in 2020, said Ira Joseph, head of gas and power analytics at S&P Global Platts....
...Case-Shiller 20 City index (red, right) and median sales price (blue, left) Your feedback I'd love to hear from you....
...The boom in debt issuance by corporate America has been good to S&P Global, the largest credit rating agency. Its shares have jumped a fifth in 2020, far outpacing its namesake S&P 500 index....
...The progress through the year will also be erratic, as it will be contingent on the interconnected “3 P’s” of the pandemic, psychology and policy....
...Lily D’Ambrosio, Victoria’s energy minister, identified shutdowns and reduced output at several of the state’s coal and gas-fired power plants as critical factors in causing the blackouts....
...Your feedback I’d love to hear from you. You can email me on michael.mackenzie@ft.com and follow me on Twitter at @michaellachlan....
...By the time he left office, that had risen 72 per cent to 8.8m b/d. Chart of the week This is from a piece that I wrote this week....
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