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...Originally called The Towers, it was owned by the railroad magnate Robert Young and his wife Anita O’Keeffe (sister of artist Georgia O’Keeffe)....
...Mike Lewis, head of US equities cash trading at Barclays, said that while he expected the drop in the stock market to be shortlived, investors were no longer baking in a powerful V-shaped recovery....
...Choo-choo: Canadian Pacific deal with Kansas City Southern is back on track Six months ago the Financial Times revealed that Canadian Pacific had agreed to acquire Kansas City Southern, the first major...
...The T-Mobile issue is one of several incidents over the past year leading both existing and former executives to question the company’s compliance structure, as the FT’s Kana Inagaki and Leo Lewis explore...
...Moreover, too little government spending can increase company bankruptcies and lead to less investment in research and development, hurting the supply side of our economies — potentially exacerbating inflationary...
...(FT) Railroad deal is the biggest of the year Canadian Pacific has agreed to buy Kansas City Southern for $28.9bn, including debt, in the largest takeover so far this year....
...But that might not be an option when markets such as South Korea are contending with their own virus outbreaks, says Sebastian Lewis, an analyst at S&P Global Platts....
...Simon Wren-Lewis, an economist at Oxford university, has some very useful pointers on the dynamics involved in a health crisis from his work on the economic impact of influenza in the 1990s....
...Tetrick wants to feed everyone, from residents of his hometown of Birmingham, Alabama, to undernourished children in Liberia. He says he founded the company to address the global food shortage....
...(FT) Made in Japan Leo Lewis heads to the Japanese glasses manufacturing heartland of Sabae, the world pioneer of titanium frames in the 1980s....
...Stuart Lewis, Deutsche Bank’s chief risk officer, told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagzeitung newspaper that concern for the bank was “unfounded”. and there was no prospect of a capital raise....
...Paul Lewis, the consumer rights expert and FT columnist, agrees. “It is confusing and potentially misleading. It is in danger of undermining the reverence the world has for our UK hallmarks.”...
...Leeds, Bristol and Birmingham, among others, provide midweek homes for people wanting short commutes to their work....
...This is a stimulating collection of essays that look at his career as a Birmingham municipal reformer as well as his roles on the national and imperial stage....
...We’re also opening negotiations on a city deal with Edinburgh; we back the new V&A in Dundee....
...LHT o2shepherdsbushempire.co.uk, 0844 477 2000 … Beethoven symphony cycle, September 16-21, Symphony Hall, Birmingham After seven impressive years as music director of the City of Birmingham Symphony...
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...Birmingham last year opened its £189m library, replacing a 1960s concrete brutalist structure....
...The Indian batsmen guided their team home to a comfortable victory via Duckworth and Lewis, losing only two wickets of their formidable batting line up....
...Combined, Genting’s companies have net cash of $2.3bn, just behind Macau giant SJM Holdings. That explains Genting’s interest in dealmaking, but not its choice of location....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...But investor Joe Lewis – who, appropriately, lives some of the time in the Caribbean – has shown true buccaneering spirit in seeking to seize control of the Brummie pub company....
...Look at a company like John Lewis. When the company asked the partners in one of their stores a few years ago what they would change, they replied “abolish the lunch hour”....
...At the same time, some of our southern branches are reporting weaker figures, although this is bound up with Easter and Mother's day falling later.”...
...Separately, John Lewis, the employee-owned department store chain, confirmed that it would invest £35m in a new shop in Birmingham, due to open in 2014....
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