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...Dame Margaret Beckett, the UK’s first female foreign secretary, has been awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire, one of Britain’s highest honours, for her five decades in frontline politics...
...However, if this is a proverbial Santa rally it looks more like the Billy Bob Thornton version than Edmund Gwenn....
...The benchmark US S&P 500 index has barely budged since the Hamas attack on October 7....
...Ignoring gains for megacap growth stocks, the S&P 500 rose just 1.4 per cent in the first three months of 2023, said UBS....
...When the former prime minister Margaret Thatcher privatised the water monopolies in 1989, she wiped out their debt....
...Margaret Ennis, 54, an office assistant from Brooklyn, was planning on cutting her Christmas shopping by half compared with last year because of higher food costs....
...On Thursday, the Rutherglen and Hamilton West by-election will be held in the seat vacated by former Scottish National party MP Margaret Ferrier, who was suspended from the House of Commons for breaching...
...We do get involved in small ‘p’ political strategy and implementation.” Blair’s regular advice is simple. “One of the first things I say to any prime minister or president is ‘do you have a plan?’...
...The 2006 Nobel Prize winner Edmund Phelps changed the way economists think about the world....
...S&P, the rating agency, has negative outlooks for two-thirds of the UK water companies it rates — indicating the possibility of downgrades as the result of weaker financial resilience....
...The Power of Money: How Governments and Banks Create Money and Help Us All Prosper by Paul Sheard (Matt Holt Books) Sheard, former vice-chair of S&P Global, explains that much of what is conventionally...
...It’s Me, Margaret. Additional contributions by Gary Jones and Emily Goldberg...
...“I want my money back,” he said, quoting former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher who in the early 1980s demanded that the EU reimburse Britain for its contributions. “I’ll get it back,” he added....
...For the subjects of Sophie Calle’s images, it is a site of discovery; in Edmund Clark’s they question what constitutes a border....
...At the Bush Theatre, Waleed Akhtar’s The P Word chooses the latter, with immensely moving results. Here the prejudices under scrutiny are racism and homophobia....
...The channel’s cable subscribers have dwindled from 98mn in 2013 to less than 74mn last year, according to estimates from S&P Global Market Intelligence....
...Likely anticipating Musk’s meltdown, Margaret Dorn, head of North American ESG rates indices at S&P Dow Jones Indices, has published a helpful guide to the S&P 500 ESG reshuffle with its biggest section...
...So I thought it was worth having a chat with the person who oversaw the index change: Margaret Dorn, S&P Global’s head of ESG indices for North America....
...More than 1mn working days are expected to be lost to strikes in the UK in December, the worst disruption of any month since the tail-end of Margaret Thatcher’s time in office....
...In 1998 he even persuaded former UK prime minister Margaret Thatcher to join the advisory board....
...Who could bear to kill and eat a feathered friend called Princess Layer or Margaret Hatcher? Hobby farmers who name their chickens are unlikely to save any cash....
...Index companies insist that they give ample explanation of their processes (see, for example, Moral Money’s recent interview with S&P Global executive Margaret Dorn, explaining the exclusion of Tesla from...
...Labour MP Dame Margaret Hodge and retail consultant Mary Portas also gave their support....
...Futures for the S&P 500 and Nasdaq were down 0.3 per cent and 0.4 per cent, respectively....
...Naím skilfully combines reportage with social-science research to identify the new tactics used by authoritarians, highlighting the three “P”s: populism, polarisation and “post-truth”....
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