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...In January 2022, West Virginia treasurer Riley Moore, who manages the US state’s cash and financial dealings, became the first red-state official to pull money out of BlackRock....
...However, Weinstein et al say they are excited to a large extent because those aforementioned risks are now materialising. As private credit investors, this is the environment we’ve been waiting for....
...Bitcoin hit a new record high on Wednesday after the launch of the first cryptocurrency futures linked exchange traded fund....
...First, the authors outline what they see as “the chains”. These do not include the country’s financial elite, nor the small group that controls the bulk of our media....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on February 14 2023. ©2023 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...and its financial markets, regulators and politicians....
...His father’s company — then called the Al-Zahawi Group, but now known as Iraq Projects Business Development (IPBD) — quickly procured a contract to provide cleaning, logistics and support services to the...
...The prospect of twelve people even potentially controlling most of the economy poses a legitimacy and accountability issue of the first order.”...
...To this day, many Americans will take their first steps on the road to appreciating art via the legacy of Frick, Rockefeller, Carnegie et al....
...There was a time towards the end of the last century, when the wine departments of Sainsbury’s, Tesco, et al strained every sinew to have the best range and to use wine as a lure to get customers into the...
...‘Clement Crisp Reviews: Six decades of dance’ is available from Troubador Books, £30 Letter in response to this article: Bolshoi offers its own tribute to FT’s ballet critic / From Makhar Vaziev, et al...
...Or, if the weather’s warm, try their signature Cappuccino Al Freddo, a frothy iced number whipped up in a milkshake maker....
...Amazon has named Adam Selipsky, chief executive of Salesforce’s Tableau Software unit, as the new head of Amazon Web Services. More here....
...The LG Tone HBS-FN6 (£150) earbuds tap the zeitgeist by coming in an industry-first UVnano charging case....
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...House of Cards, BoJack Horseman and Orange Is the New Black to brag about until the cavalry — Stranger Things, Narcos et al — arrived....
...the Middle East’s first case of Covid-19....
...Campbell Steedman and Christopher Skipper have both joined the law firm’s corporate practice while Shibeer Ahmed joins the firm’s financial services division....
...Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
...He left the bank in 2015 and became an adviser to Qatar’s al-Thani royal family, the largest shareholder in Deutsche. The sentences are longer than for most high-profile banking crimes....
...services....
...Many French cinema owners, who are putting pressure on Cannes to resist Netflix et al, see the streamers’ disruptive attitude as an incursion into their territory....
...Here’s a chart from a 2019 paper by Michael Rosenfeld et al. to demonstrate: Note the spike in “met in bar or restaurant” alongside the spike “met online”....
...Certainly, the food remains classic and lush (guinea hen with truffles and Madeira et al), and the prices remain high to the point of becoming a sort of performance art....
...Separately, Moody’s Investors Service downgraded Ford’s credit rating to junk....
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