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...As well as showing about 1,200 works from its collection (which numbers about 50,000 globally), the bank has commissioned wall-works by three emerging British artists — Simeon Barclay, Rene Matić and Claire...
...On Wednesday morning, Ofcom chief executive Melanie Dawes said that it would report “imminently”. The new government intervention could extend the process by a further few weeks....
...Excluding “statistical quirks and distortions” in the Irish data, Mark Cus Babic, an economist at Barclays, calculated eurozone industrial production would have fallen 0.9 per cent in June....
...The latter pair can expect a letter from Hugo Barclay, director of the UK’s Affordable Art Fairs....
...But Melanie Leech, chief executive of the British Property Federation, which represents landlords, said property owners had already provided “millions of pounds” to the most vulnerable tenants and that there...
...Melanie Debono, senior Europe economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics, said: “Consumers are tightening their belts, preserving income for heating and other necessities.”...
...Melanie Debono, economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics, also upgraded her forecast to a “shallower recession” partly because of milder winter weather....
...However, Melanie Leech, chief executive of the British Property Federation, which represents landlords, said well-capitalised companies were “exploiting” the eviction ban....
...However, these challengers have struggled to break the stranglehold of the big five — HSBC, Lloyds, Royal Bank of Scotland, Barclays and Santander....
...Relinquishing his SLA role will allow Sir Gerry, who sits on the Barclays board but has ruled himself out of the running to be its next chairman, to consider other appointments....
...(Tortoise) Lunch with ‘Mac the Knife’ John McFarlane, the former Barclays chairman, credits an ancient Chinese philosophy for his success in finance: feng shui....
...Melanie Gee, chair of the company’s remuneration committee, said: “We will have to go back to our shareholders to discuss this to assess what is the correct next step.”...
...Melanie Baker and Jacob Nell, UK economists, Morgan Stanley We expect the MPC to cut rates to 0.10% in May — a final cut to the new lower bound....
...Melanie Baker and Jacob Nell, UK economists, Morgan Stanley We expect inflation to rise through the BoE’s inflation target of 2% in March and to be close to 3% by end-17....
...Melanie Baker and Jacob Nell, UK economists, Morgan Stanley We think borrowing will increase....
...Fabrice Montagne, chief UK and senior European economist, Barclays We expect immigration to have peaked in recent years....
...Fabrice Montagne, chief UK and senior European economist, Barclays We expect UK GDP to grow 1% next year and 1.5% in 2018....
...Melanie Baker and Jacob Nell, UK economists, Morgan Stanley Feel about the same as 12 months ago We have broadly the same view about the long-term impact of leaving the EU....
...Reports from big lenders for 2013 confirmed the scale of the paper mountain, with HSBC publishing an annual report weighing in at nearly 600 pages while Barclays produced a document that was 444 pages....
...But let us not make life even more trying for the editor of The Moral Maze, a person compelled to deal regularly with Melanie Phillips....
...Melanie Flouquet, analyst at JPMorgan, said: “The weak performance at Puma was more than offset by better performances everywhere else....
...Barclays’ mortgage switching deal is still available, though....
...Some good news arrived for first-time buyers today in the form of Barclays slashing its 90 per cent mortgage rate by 1.20 per cent....
...Melanie Bien of Private Finance said that these low loan-to-value ratios show that lenders are still restricting themselves to low-risk business....
...● Christian Berchem heads to Barclays Wealth to lead its high net worth operations in the UK and Ireland....
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