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...Hedge fund manager, part-time cheese farmer and full-time market doom-monger Mark Spitznagel is thrilled that so many investors have seemingly forgotten the lessons of last year, and are once again betting...
...Several farmers said pain this year would be mitigated by the fact that they had crop insurance and forward contracts to sell soyabeans, and because the government had created a $12bn programme to reimburse...
...Unlike the UK’s big supermarkets, gouging dairy farmers with ever lower milk prices, they have long and mutually dependent relationships with their suppliers....
...And long gone are the tenant farmers with their surnames out of Cold Comfort Farm, to be replaced by London’s prosperous flotsam; the headhunters, celebs, bankers and media professionals....
...Get in touch with us: Due.Diligence@FT.com Bunge: Timing is everything The world's largest grain trading companies, which act as the middlemen between farmers and customers, are feeling the pinch from...
...“When they fill out the insurance claim, they will be asked if they are running a business from the property.”...
...(WSJ) The UK election Gina Miller, a pro-EU campaigner, will unveil her plan to encourage tactical voting in the June 8 poll....
...Flour Mills, the country’s biggest miller, has been encouraging farmers to plant more sorghum and maize to use instead of imported wheat....
...“The Wall Street guys are the right guys to be involved because farmers and gas station jockeys don’t have the sophistication.” That might excuse one direction of traffic but perhaps not the other....
...(I) Transdek UK (I) Transec (UK) Tristar Cars t/a Tristar Worldwide Chauffeur Services TRL Technology (I) TTS Group Turbosound (I) U Ubisense Group Ubisense Group (I) Union Electric Steel UK V...
...Thor is billed as the latest film from “the studio that brought you Iron Man”, but it is also the latest film from the director who brought you Henry V and Hamlet....
...“There has been considerable improvement in social welfare in the last five years,” said V. Krishnananth, a Chennai-based author on Indian politics....
...This is unquestionably a positive for the economy, the labour market, income growth and risk assets,” said Dan Greenhaus, chief economic strategist at Miller Tabak....
...And here’s the I-don’t-care-about-watching-Ghana v Uruguay version (emphasis FT Alphaville’s): The Miller-Moore provision, which was included in the House bill last year, never made it into the Senate version...
...In the biggest contested divorce payout, the Court of Appeal last year upheld a £48m award to the ex-wife of the insurance magnate John Charman....
...Pradhan Mantri Adarsh Gram Yojana (PMAGY) (v) There are about 44,000 villages in which the population of Scheduled castes is above 50 per cent....
...But it was insurance he chose and it was in insurance that he made his fortune. After a spell with an insurance company owned by C.H....
...Q: Your thoughts please on positioning v branding and perhaps the former requiring much more attention and effort?...
...One that has already attracted media attention is that of John Charman, the insurance millionaire....
...Scion, Toyota's youth brand, was deterred by the high price of the car and extra insurance costs....
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