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...Balls said his funds had a larger than normal position in gilts and he was not worried about a potential borrowing splurge ahead of a general election....
...“I don’t have a crystal ball, but the situation will be tougher than what we saw in 2023.”...
...Andrew Balls, Pimco’s chief investment officer for global fixed income, said the market pricing of 3.6 per cent was higher than his expectations of terminal rates....
...Andrew Balls, chief investment officer for global fixed income at Pimco, said he had favoured European government bonds and UK gilts over US Treasuries this year because there was “more evidence of inflation...
...Inès Cross The Standard, London, until 22 June SEE Mary Lovelace O’Neal at Marianne Boesky After a 60-year career, Mary Lovelace O’Neal shows no signs of slowing down....
...The outfit — striped top, torn-off trousers, eyepatch — isn’t too much of a stretch, and the whole game is also usefully unisex thanks to a handful of genuine female pirates (Mary Read, Anne Bonny) and several...
...A tremendous initial contrast is Nathaniel Mary Quinn’s expressive, dislocated heads and Amy Sherald’s stylised realism of bright colours, clean lines....
...I would style it with some white sneakers or Mary Janes, and a basket bag like my round Pot de Miel bag with a bamboo handle to give it a bit of coolness”....
...“Nobody told the Irish story like Shane,” said Mary Lou McDonald, leader of nationalist opposition party Sinn Féin....
...On Farrow & Ball’s podcast, The Chromologist, guests including broadcaster Mary Portas and Michelin chef Skye Gyngell are interviewed about their paint choices, often revealing deeply personal emotional...
...Balls said Pimco did not have a strong house view on gilts, but that some global portfolios were overweight as a “relative value” trade compared with US bonds....
...There’s a really great one by Mary Keen called Creating a Garden. Arthur Beale makes my favourite pullovers. I wear them in the garden the whole time....
...Being a debutant at one of the biggest balls in the art-fair calendar can be a daunting experience....
...He quotes Hugo Ball, co-founder of the Dada movement in Zurich, who during the first world war called Switzerland “a birdcage, surrounded by roaring lions”....
...The moment he explosively abandons that mission — a national TV interview in which Charley takes a wrecking ball to the friendship — is by turns hilarious and ferocious and is one of the great performances...
...Spain were made to work for the victory, with England’s Mary Earps — winner of the Golden Glove award for best goalkeeper — saving a second-half penalty from Jennifer Hermoso after the referee reviewed replays...
...Susan Ball, president of the Chartered Institute of Taxation, a professional body, said: “Our members tell us every day of the delays they face getting answers and action from HMRC — and the impact this...
...“It’s not about getting a ball into a net. It’s [now] the Australian game — it’s the true face of Australia.”...
...“A friend and mentor of mine, Mary Lasker, used to ask, ‘What is missing and what is needed?’ This is the basis for my philanthropy....
...Could any of our haul conceivably have belonged to Mary Tudor, sister of King Henry VIII, who used the priory as a hunting lodge?...
...“Lady Diana Beauclerk” portrays his friend, the original Lady Di (born Spencer), at a Grecian fancy dress ball in 1763....
...Susan Ball, president of the Chartered Institute of Taxation, has written to Kwarteng’s successor Jeremy Hunt, arguing that keeping the OTS as an independent organisation would help prevent the risk of in-house...
...“Wrecking Ball”, a fiddle-accompanied stomper about hard times, went to toe-to-toe with classics such as “Born in the USA”....
...She can do whatever she wants with the ball, as she demonstrated this summer at the Women’s World Cup....
...“If I had something to drink at lunch, you would be leaving this saying, ‘Mr Hanks had curled up in a ball . . . in the booth and gone to sleep.’”...
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