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...That total fell to about 2.5mn b/d in August, with the decline coming from western-insured ships, which only carried 626,000 b/d that month — less than half the volume they transported in May....
...In 2017, she’d introduced her bosses to Stephens and persuaded them to write Anduril a cheque — a coup for someone so junior....
...Seen from a distance, Hollywood’s “hot labour summer” could look a little like pampered movie stars throwing a strop....
...shipping and insurance services....
...As a reminder, at $60 a barrel, the price cap aims to put a ceiling on the price of Russian seaborne oil sales that use western shipping and financial services....
...I’m not shipping with plastic hangers.”...
...Vitol, the world’s largest independent oil trader, estimates Russian exports could drop by as much as a 1mn b/d, around 20 per cent of the volume it ships by sea....
...(The letter “n” is next to the letter “h” on a QWERTY keyboard, which explains the first typo. The “b” was a mystery.) Until I could fix this, I had to negotiate to get anywhere....
...F24 (Germany) F24’s crisis management software allows a company’s critical processes to be monitored and managed from any location at any time....
...Needham and D. Hotson. Charlie Bean: Few downturns are exactly alike....
...When Askew advertises jobs, like sommeliers or maître d’-type roles that can pay up to £35,000 a year, there is a chronic shortage of qualified applicants in the UK....
...Well, last week a jury in New York came to the opinion that the most successful male R&B singer of the 1990s was guilty of using his superstar status to run a scheme to sexually abuse women and children...
...For a chirpy, free-market perspective on the whole affair, look no further than the star of a 1958 essay “I, Pencil . . . as Told to Leonard E. Read”....
...go about expanding the villa into a full-service luxury hotel....
...Just a quick follow-up, and if you could give me a short answer, because I'd like to get to Anne-Sylvaine on the China question in a second. But what you say is fascinating, you know....
...Hoare, North Yorkshire; Christina McKittrick, Kingston Polymath 1,011: Dr S Bailey, Swindon Crossword 16,099: Suzanne P Wilson, Windermere; D Barter, Cumbria; Jean-Marc Sellier, California Polymath 1,010...
...be seen as a way of unlocking value for shareholders) is now ‘on the table’. 2:30pm BST - Requests below the line for Luxembourg-domiciled B&M European Value Retail, whose full-year results are in line...
...Since 1925, the Grand Ole Opry has featured the music of countless country and bluegrass stars, from Bill Monroe to Dolly Parton....
...B cells of recovered patients....
...and Uber, the stars of a new tech boom....
...Supertankers each carrying 2m b/d of US crude are usually loaded offshore by smaller vessels shuttling back and forth from terminals on land....
...China Merchants is a massive conglomerate with holdings in banking, securities broking, real estate and shipping, owned directly by the state....
...“I’d say to our designer: make the B on the headphones bigger,” Iovine recalls. “And he’d say, ‘I don’t know . . . it’s too big.’ We are competing with headphones but we’re also competing with Nike....
...Tehran remains confident that it can continue to build on its current 3.7m barrels a day (b/d) of oil production, which already represents a rise of half a million b/d since February....
...A meeting (and a selfie) with Jack is coveted by presidents, prime ministers and princes, CEOs, entrepreneurs, investors, and movie stars....
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