Hints and tips:
...Three of Japan’s biggest developers are “aggressively” shopping for housebuilders to buy in the US as they hunt growth outside their shrinking domestic market....
...It would take 15 years for an average skilled office worker to afford a 60 sq m flat in central Tokyo, compared with 11 years in London, 10 in Singapore and eight in New York, UBS said in a recent note to...
...Other advisers in Tokyo said the rest of corporate Japan was on the hunt for assets, with the end of pandemic travel curbs allowing up-close due diligence of potential targets again....
...“The challenge has been getting enough product to market at an attractive enough price,” says broker Clyde Lewis at Peel Hunt....
...One of the first to sit down with Hunt was Martin Lewis, the consumer champion and founder of the Money Saving Expert advice website, who believes that savings rates should be top of the chancellor’s agenda...
...Lewis Davis is the first person I’ve met who also has a prosthetic eye....
...“If I’m saving but half of my interest is taken away, then maybe I won’t save,” says Victor Trokoudes, co-founder of Plum, the smart money app....
...I’m off to the theatre again tonight to see Standing at the Sky’s Edge, the improbable-sounding musical set in a brutalist housing estate in Sheffield....
...But of course, politically, it puts Rachel Reeves very much in the same box as Jeremy Hunt....
...I’m not sure he looks the part yet in those roles....
...“It’s a door that can be pushed on,” said Labour MP Clive Lewis. The second chart in this story has been amended after publication to clarify the scale of the public funding involved...
...Meanwhile, chancellor Jeremy Hunt met MoneySavingExpert founder Martin Lewis to discuss rising mortgage rates. Lewis said this week that the “ticking timebomb” he had warned about had now “exploded”....
...I’m less convinced that it comes with the cost of aggravating Sunak’s political vulnerabilities over his wealth....
...Other large Japanese developers are also on the prowl, three M&A lawyers told the Financial Times’s Leo Lewis. But it’s not just about planting flags in glitzy US neighbourhoods....
...Hunt probably holds its future in his hands.”...
...Michael Lewis, doyen of non-fiction, once talked me through when and why he chose to use “I” in his books. There’s an egalitarian republic of writers....
...So here’s what I am going to do: for a further 12 months I’m going to maintain the 5p cut … and I’m going to freeze fuel duty too....
...These may involve visits to the local market, farmers and artisans; a truffle hunt with a tartufaio and his curly haired Lagotto dog (San Miniato is renowned for its varieties of truffles, including white...
...“Personally, over time, I’m sure we’re going to see a new name for the CBI, but that’s just the wrapper that goes on the outside....
...Elsewhere in retail we have numbers from Inditex and H&M, the latter being a trading update rather than a results call....
...Many of the proposals in the “mini” Budget have since been dropped or reversed by the new chancellor Jeremy Hunt....
...Lewis told me that she sees parallels between Debrett’s and Norland....
...I’m interested how quickly and fiercely the government — Sunak, Hunt — have leapt on this. Is that smart politics or just over-opportunism?...
...Need to know: business UK fashion and homeware chain M&Co went into administration, putting nearly 2,000 jobs at risk, after being hit by rising costs and a drop-off in demand....
...I’m thinking of either trying this Rowley Leigh recipe or cooking this Antonio Carluccio recipe again....
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