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...More news on Ukraine The UK and EU have agreed a co-ordinated ban on insuring ships carrying Russian oil, shutting Moscow out of the vital Lloyd’s of London insurance market....
...Michael Levi, a fraud expert and professor of criminology at Cardiff University, warned that the lack of capacity means many fraudsters will escape prosecution....
...Each 0.25 percentage point reduction knocks almost £150m from Lloyds’ annual net interest income....
...NYSE or Nasdaq New York’s rival stock exchanges have been fighting it out to host some of this year’s most coveted initial public offerings, including the likes of Uber, Lyft and Levi Strauss....
...Meanwhile, Ann Goldstein, translator of books by Elena Ferrante and Primo Levi, has an equally writerly process — typing out a fast first draft, and then a second, a third, a fourth, as many as the book...
...Paul Cézanne: Drawings and Watercolours, by Christopher Lloyd, Thames & Hudson, RRP£24.95/Getty, RRP$39.95 Rilke called Cézanne’s watercolours “as confident as his paintings, and as light as the paintings...
...The festival closes on Sunday week with the exceptional double bill of saxophonists Joe Lovano and Charles Lloyd at the Barbican....
...(Financial Times) The UK government moved a step closer to returning Lloyds Banking Group to the private sector before next year’s election after it announced plans to sell more than £4bn worth of its shares...
...He used to monitor the production line risks facing sportswear group Nike and jeans maker Levi Strauss – checking the solidity of trainer soles and the sturdiness of denim seams....
...Goldman Sachs, whose chief executive, Lloyd Blankfein, made a video supporting gay marriage, said “we’ve not put out any official position” on guns....
...Prices were hit by the demise of Lehman and the takeover of HBOS by Lloyds TSB....
...In the business world, there are knighthoods for John Hegarty, the advertising guru whose agency BBH is best known for its Levi’s jeans campaigns, and for Malcolm Williamson, the chairman of the government-owned...
...Mister Pip By Lloyd Jones John Murray £12.99, 223 pages FT bookshop price: £10.39 On a tiny island in Papua New Guinea, civil war has scared away all the teachers....
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