Hints and tips:
...In a virtual news conference soon after starting her job in January, she referred to her female under-secretary, Luz María de la Mora, by her first name, and the diminutive “LuzMa”....
...And the best ones I’ve received recently are two books, Genesis and Africa, on the work of Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado....
...Political differences strained long and close friendships with two colleagues on the left of the Socialist party, the late Francisco Salgado Zenha and the poet Manuel Alegre....
...A lawyer representing José Maria Espírito Santo Ricciardi, a member of the former BES board and chief executive of Haitong Bank (formerly BESI), said the prospectus was subject to regulatory control and...
...José Maria Espírito Santo Ricciardi, chief executive of Espírito Santo’s investment bank, blamed Mr Salgado – his older cousin – for the mounting problems at ESI....
...ESFG has named Amílcar Morais Pires, currently chief financial officer and described as Mr Salgado’s right-hand man, to succeed him....
...In a sign of deepening rifts, however, José Maria Ricciardi, Mr Salgado’s cousin and chief executive of Espírito Santo Investment Bank (BESI), has refused to join the new advisory board after the family,...
...And Wim Wenders has teamed up with Juliano Ribeiro Salgado for The Salt of the Earth....
...Mr de Guindos, a former deputy finance minister under the administration of José María Aznar, will be joined by Cristóbal Montoro, a former budget minister and veteran politician, who in the new government...
...Elena Salgado, Spain’s finance minister, said the charges against Mr Strauss-Kahn were “extraordinarily serious” and he would have to decide for himself whether he wanted to step down....
...The conservative Austrian People’s party has appointed Maria Fekter as finance minister following the resignation of Josef Pröll because of ill health....
...José Maria Barreda, the outgoing Socialist president of the Castilla-La Mancha region, said early elections were “starting to become probable”....
...Banco de Valencia, a listed bank, might also need a bail-out, according to Elena Salgado, the Spanish finance minister....
...José María Arias, chairman of Banco Pastor, one of Spain’s smaller listed banks, said on Friday that he had been speaking to investment bankers to see how to take advantage of the restructurings, although...
...Elena Salgado, who is implementing an official austerity programme and has vowed to reduce the budget deficit, remains as finance minister....
...Two days after José María Roldán, the central bank’s head of regulation, warned of the likelihood of further bad loan provisions by banks and cajas to cover the riskier parts of their €445bn in Spanish construction...
...María Teresa Fernández de la Vega, Spain’s senior deputy prime minister, called the measures “a rigorous plan, with which we are convinced we’ll reach 2013 having done our homework”....
...Elena Salgado, finance minister, said last week she was sure Frob would need less than €30bn....
...Elena Salgado, finance minister, said the fund could eventually grow to €99bn....
...In the latest official rebuke for Miguel Angel Fernández Ordóñez, governor of the Bank of Spain, Maria Teresa Fernández de la Vega, deputy prime minister, accused him in an interview published on Sunday...
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