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...Hi, I’m Katie Martin, the FT’s markets columnist, and I’m looking after this newsletter for a couple of weeks while Harriet Agnew is topping up her vitamin D levels on holiday, the lucky duck....
...The nub is Hale’s genial front and the cognitive dissonance of his nephew....
...The cliched image of Chinese industry being sustained by knocking out cheap copies needs to be put to bed, writes Shanghai correspondent Thomas Hale....
...Having capped off his decades-long cycle of Italian-American gangster movies with The Irishman in 2019, Martin Scorsese needed to find another bloody chapter in US history....
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...Reporting by Katie Martin and Martha Muir in London, Jaren Kerr in New York, William Langley, Cheng Leng and Primrose Riordan in Hong Kong, Leo Lewis in Tokyo and Thomas Hale in Shanghai...
...As the boss Sam Martin told me: “My original vision for the company was more grand, more global and I’d love to get back to that, but we have to cut our cloth to the world as it is now.”)...
...With her colleague Martin Heneghan, she found that banks in the City have shifted mid-tier jobs to places like Poland and Lisbon, which has hit places like Birmingham, Cardiff, Edinburgh and Glasgow harder...
...Martin Wolf puts the economic case for support, arguing that backing Kyiv will be less expensive in the long run than allowing Putin to prevail....
...Listen to FT Shanghai correspondent Thomas Hale on the protests in our News Briefing podcast....
...The reverse applied to UK rival Aston Martin, where unfinished vehicles more than doubled quarterly losses and hampered turnround efforts....
...Martin ArnoldThis is the most interesting question at the moment. Marc FilippinoThat’s the FT’s Martin Arnold. Martin ArnoldChristine Lagarde, its president, said no....
...Thomas Hale NatGas snaps Natural gas supplanted crude oil as the world’s most important commodity in October as prices surged to unprecedented levels and the world scrambled for scarce supplies....
Headline figures mask continued difficulties in manufacturing sector
Leading economists polled by the FT expect the Fed to raise interest rates next year
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...When he boarded a container ship to work as its third officer in January, Martin Li only expected to be at sea for four months....
...“Globally it’s [property] slowing down, but for China we are still seeing stable growth,” said Martin Wong at Knight Frank, which forecasts prices in China’s biggest cities will rise 3 per cent to 5 per...
...Martin Rasmussen, China economist at Capital Economics, pointed to “shipments of masks, medical products and work-from-home equipment” as supporting the export data....
...“The weakness in price pressures should ease in the coming months, as the ongoing ramp up in policy stimulus drives a further recovery in activity,” said Martin Rasmussen, China economist at Capital Economics...
...Police arrested some of the city’s leading pro-democracy figures, including Martin Lee, an 81-year old lawyer who helped write Hong Kong’s mini-constitution and 14 other pro-democracy activists....
...“As I have not paid in enough years’ National Insurance to qualify for a full state pension, I must keep working,” said Martin Webster, who made a precarious living as a freelance events manager until Covid...
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