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...Qatar Investment Authority and was the face of a UK spending spree that took Doha stakes in London’s Shard skyscraper, Chelsea Barracks, Canary Wharf, London Stock Exchange and the Berkeley and Connaught hotels...
...Talks have been held with several parties but discussions with Emirati ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum’s conglomerate Dubai Holding are at a more advanced stage, the people said....
...Bunzl, Howdens et al are generally smaller than the household names, and smaller companies can grow faster. Bunzl’s revenues, for example, have increased from £2.7bn to £11.8bn over the past 20 years....
...Al Thani over ownership of – and then complex exit payouts from – the Maybourne group of hotels (including Claridge’s and The Berkeley)....
...Riyadh-based lawyers Noor Al-Fawzan of Latham & Watkins and Manal Al-Musharaf of White & Case have joined as partners....
...Prominent tech investors have flocked to the kingdom, sometimes with personal invites from Yasir al-Rumayyan, governor of Saudi Arabia’s $620bn sovereign wealth fund....
...Arnott et al estimate that stocks ejected from the S&P 500 actually outperformed new entrants by an average of 2,200 basis points in the year after the index rejig (FTAV has written about the index inclusion...
...The suites vary, but all are 50sq m with courtyard entrances, and furnished with pieces by – or at least inspired by – Arne Jacobsen, Eero Saarinen, Joe Colombo, Isamu Noguchi, Charles and Ray Eames et al...
...But as Steven Kelly of the Yale Program on Financial Stability pointed out to me, Yellen et al will need the goodwill of the big banks should some other bank or banks get into trouble....
...In the communications sector, the video entertainment companies (Warner Bros Discovery, Paramount, Disney, Netflix et al) explain the bulk of the outperformance....
...Everyone expects Jay Powell et al to say “no rate increase today, but maybe in a month”....
...Elysian also offers a small selection of baked goods — muffins, scones, cookies et al — that are all made in house using butter or olive oil (rather than the mass-produced seed oils often found in commercial...
...But even in the face of this poignant example, the Chan et al/Verdad view is very hard for a person like me to accept....
...Today’s top stories The US Federal Reserve announces its decision on interest rates at 2pm ET/7pm London time today. Check back here for details and reaction....
...Finback was considering buying a stake in Gideon Cyber Systems LLC, according to the term sheet....
...It comes iced, nitro (cold brew made with nitrogen gas for an ultra-smooth texture) or hot, with all of the usual suspects represented: macchiato, cappuccino, cortadito et al....
...The dazzling original line-up (Zenaida Yanowsky, Darcey Bussell, Leanne Benjamin, Gary Avis et al) made it all look easy, but on Thursday last-minute cast changes meant that only Ryoichi Hirano and Marianela...
...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....
...Pieces in unglazed grey are finished with metallic details inspired by the drawings of Darwin et al....
...This take is less Sex and the City-style outrageous fabulosity, however, and more in line with the minimal, monochrome simplicity and silhouettes of Yohji Yamamoto, Helmut Lang et al....
...Expect many versions of young Naomi, Linda, Christy, Amber et al, as well as Hollywood icons along the lines of Charlotte Rampling and Nicole Kidman....
...Built in the 1700s and rebuilt the following century with uniform Queen Anne-style architecture, today its retail offering is largely designer fashion — Balenciaga, Oscar de la Renta, Céline et al....
...“[Trump] was elected because [a] segment of America is fed up with the consistency and transparency of the elitists,” said Barrack, a private-equity investor who had sold the future president a $400m hotel...
...Or more specifically, did an old post from Jamie Powell help bring about the deathly squeeze on Melvin Capital et al?...
...I could see Hepburn et al approving of the premise of Louis Vuitton’s offering this season. The house describes the collection as a step into a “stylistically vague” territory....
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