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...Last year, Aramco acquired a 10 per cent stake in Shenzhen-listed Rongsheng Petrochemical for $3.6bn and entered a venture with two other Chinese companies to build a 300,000 b/d refinery and petrochemicals...
...“The question for the Biden administration is whether they have any incentive to utilise the sanctions architecture that the Trump administration used to take down Iran exports by 1mn b/d,” said Helima Croft...
...d this year and 1.8mn b/d in 2025....
...My daughter wants to be the girl, Mabel – but Madame B steals the show for me....
...Curbing exports from Tehran will be difficult: the country is exporting more oil than at any time in six years, our energy editor Malcolm Moore reports....
...Unhedged 🎧: Four months ago, the FT’s Rob Armstrong and Elaine Moore placed their bets on two portfolios of three stocks each. We check in on how they’re doing. Love the FirstFT quiz?...
...As an independent adviser on private equity deals, Katherine Feeney has figured out how to liaise with clients from almost anywhere in the world....
...One we missed: The Radium Girls by Kate Moore is the story of young women who painted radium on to watch dials in the early 20th century....
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...General B Chance Saltzman, commander of the US Space Force, told Congress last month that Beijing was aggressively pursuing counter-space capabilities in an effort to realise its “space dream” of becoming...
...In Rob Howell’s set the chintzy B&B bedroom becomes a hellish prison, a humble cushion a horror....
...Her multi-platinum repertoire has spanned golden-age R&B, punk-pop riffing, country-tinged ballads and clubby bangers, all powered by her gloriously sweet-spiky vocals and irrepressible attitude....
...Last week, Katherine Tai, US trade representative, was given an even tougher time in a hearing on Capitol Hill....
...Among the top titles there’s Hernan Diaz’s dazzling new novel Trust, Katherine Rundell’s stunning biography of John Donne, and Sri Lankan culinary inspiration in the form of Hoppers: The Cookbook....
...And it begins with one of the company’s founders, an engineer named Gordon Moore....
...Perhaps the most amusing piece this year was James B. Stewart’s examination of the apparently dodgy goings-on at high-end New York wine seller Sherry-Lehmann....
...Every day, announcements arrive boasting about how start-ups a, b and c are applying the technology to industry x, y and z....
...Malcolm Moore (@malcolmmoore) Editor, FT Edit • Each Wednesday in FT Edit you will find Lunch with the FT, a cornerstone of the paper that has been running for almost 30 years....
...Chocolate also contains the cannabinoid anandamide and is rich in magnesium and B vitamins....
...But he, too, is a smooth operator, creating a new power coalition with Katherine Clark of Massachusetts and California congressman Pete Aguilar (who helped him win support for his position) that is capable...
...He donated tens of thousands of dollars to Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore, continuing to support the Republican candidate even after he faced multiple allegations of sexual assault, which Moore denied...
...Smart reads Plan B Rightwing tycoon Peter Thiel’s political donations have yet to spark the change he’d hoped for....
...decapitation feel uneasily close to mind when looking at a portrait of Anne Boleyn, painted by an unknown artist in the 16th century, wearing a strikingly modern pearl choker adorned with a dangling letter “B”...
...“What I Like” reverts to the tone of their debut with a B-52’s-style party tune featuring Sugar Bones on lead vocal....
...At Amberley air force base, he greeted a B-2 stealth bomber that had flown from the US in a move that was partly aimed at reminding China about the potency of American military force....
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