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...William Zeckendorf Sr, who preceded Trump as New York’s flamboyant developer king, bought 40 Wall Street in 1959 for $18.15mn in an 87-round auction held in its 26th-floor Wall Street Club....
...April 19 to 21; further information here May Art ‘Keith Haring Deleted’, Galleria d’Arte Moderna Rome once had two graffiti murals by Keith Haring, both now gone....
...Former Salesforce co-chief Keith Block has launched Smith Point Capital with Vista Equity Partners’ Burke Norton and Longfellow Capital’s Chris Lytle....
...Mary McDougall, bonds and currencies reporter This is quite random but I loved this — heartwarming and lovely amid all the doom and gloom: Richard E Grant: My lifelong infatuation with Barbra Streisand...
...“Children are demanding,” the late E B White, author of such classics as Charlotte’s Web, told The Paris Review in 1969....
...But Neil Ross, head of policy at TechUK, the industry lobby group, said other proposals such as increasing the digitisation of documentation, including e-signatures for international contracts, were to be...
...Trevor Williams: No — it may have gone too far in raising taxes....
...Job moves Keith Skeoch, chief executive of Standard Life Aberdeen, has been appointed chair of the Investment Association’s board....
...Royal Mail also said it had appointed the head of its audit and risk committee Keith Williams as deputy chairman with immediate effect....
...“It’s going to make us all a lot more conscious of, and careful about, how we look for money, how we accept money,” says William E Granara, director of Harvard’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies....
...But it may just be a matter of time before Washington’s new appetite for regulating the digital economy reaches the e-commerce giant....
...Jared Brown is master distiller of Sipsmith gin and co-author of ‘Shaken Not Stirred: A Celebration of the Martini’ (William Morrow) Photograph: Alamy...
...It notes that, earlier this year, bearishness towards Brazil, Russia, Poland, and Turkey pushed the Shiller p/e (that’s the price to ten-year average earnings) of the MSCI Emerging Markets Index below 10...
...S.E. Asia), the deflationary return to the US and UK could be much larger than anticipated....
...Ireland Dr Geoff Davison Chief Executive, Bionow Lin Bateson Director, BioPartner UK Dr Shaun McNulty CSO, Biosceptre UK Cathy Gilman Chief Executive, Bloodwise Nathan Nagel Chief Executive, Brain-e-Games...
...His A Biographical Sketch of an Infant was based on notes made after his son William was born; William was 37 when he published....
...Medium term B of E should encourage competition in financial services to raise return to savers and move away from fixation on one central interest rate to more flexible and varied market level rates....
...Trevor Williams, Lloyds Banking Group: Scotland will decide....
...Arguments suggesting this damage might be permanent (i.e. impervious to demand-side policies) are even weaker....
...Trevor Williams, Lloyds Banking Group: The housing market is a risk but it is nowhere near a bubble at the moment....
...Trevor Williams, Lloyds Banking Group: We don’t think policy will change....
...Keith Wade, Schroders: There is a danger that the “help to buy” scheme will create a bubble which will burst when it is withdrawn....
...Keith Wade, Schroders: Growth should remain robust in 2014 driven by the continued recovery in the housing market and stronger net trade....
...Trevor Williams, Lloyds Banking Group: Deficit reduction remains a challenge, but the economic recovery is the best way to bring the deficit down....
...William Lynch, Barnes & Noble chief executive, stressed that its store network and employees would enable it to provide better customer support than Amazon....
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