Hints and tips:
...Many commercial shipping companies have decided to avoid the critical shipping route, opting instead to take the longer journey between Asia and Europe around the Cape of Good Hope....
...Doctors and medical staff on board the liner have been told to prepare to receive casualties....
...Even when an artist is alone in their studio, they always have company....
...Mayhem persists among the US’s property and casualty insurers. Auto-insurance businesses are still losing money....
...“As the review points out, the bypass that was demanded to relieve congestion often ends up leading to extra traffic, which in time brings further demands for extra lanes, wider junctions and more roads,...
...Still, Kurkov’s bracingly dry wit and endless sympathy for the foibles of his characters mean that we don’t tire of their company....
...“We needed deposits and Alan started seeing that companies like Coinbase were getting kicked out of banks,” said Ben Reynolds, Silvergate’s president who was hired by Lane in 2016 to turbocharge its crypto...
...They begin with a sequel to the English King Henry V’s victory over the French at Agincourt....
...“The Russians’ strategy is to show it is much more resilient to casualties than Ukraine,” said Oleksandr V Danylyuk, head of the Centre for Defence Reforms, a think-tank in Kyiv....
...He was in good company....
...In his most recent letter to shareholders, Buffett again extolled the virtues of insurance “float” or the premiums that policyholders pay to Berkshire insurance companies such as Geico....
...For a cash-strapped theatre company they can represent a vital revenue stream....
...Until then, you can reach Sid and I at imani.moise@ft.com and sid.v@ft.com. Happy reading!...
...casualty....
...Alleghany, a property and casualty insurance and reinsurer, has long been described as a mini-Berkshire Hathaway....
...With his own work off limits in China and recently censored in Hong Kong, Ai is coruscating about western museums such as the Pompidou, Tate and the V&A that have been paid millions by state-owned companies...
...Let us know what fintech predictions you have for the rest of the year at imani.moise@ft.com and sid.v@ft.com....
...“The more it is industrialised, the more pressure there is to make something cheap,” says Cropper from his office, just down the lane from the mill....
...FURTHER READING: Complaint, Orlando Police Pension Fund v....
...“The DFDS lane is free, look!” he said (we talked cab-to-cab on hands-free mobiles)....
...Meanwhile, I spoke to Pleo, which provides smart company cards and has secured a $4.7bn valuation after a $200m extension to their series C round. As always you can reach me at sid.v@ft.com....
...It put theatre, one of the overlooked casualties of the pandemic, on Britain’s political agenda....
...Philip Lane, chief economist at the ECB, has suggested there is no alarm surrounding transitory inflation stemming from temporary supply side bottlenecks (instead of demand overheating)....
...Tristram Hunt is director of the V&A and a former MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central....
...According to real estate services and investment company CBRE, prime rents for apartments in Amsterdam fell by 3.3 per cent in the year leading up to the fourth quarter of 2020....
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