Hints and tips:
...a more benign focus of national allegiance....
...As a result, the prospects for a V-shaped recovery have brightened....
...There is some uncertainty around a National Grid Contract, but the budget is likely to be positive. However, we leave our underlying FY20 earnings estimates unchanged but reduce the FY20 DPS by 17%....
...Here’s more on what to expect from chief executive Mary Barra and the company....
...Public rooms drew on Jacobean, Georgian and Baroque styles; on the walls were copies of paintings from the National Gallery....
...After a Michelin-starred lunch at Assa, a sun-dappled restaurant on the banks of the Loire, I visit Château de Blois, where Mary, Queen of Scots, spent years waiting for her dauphin to grow up....
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College Most unlikely....
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College I expect inflation to rise towards 3% in 2017 was import prices rise....
...Francis Breedon, professor of economics and finance, Queen Mary University London Small effect....
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College My guess is he will be too timorous to do the right thing....
...However, my hope is that we establish a fairer immigration policy which no longer puts Commonwealth nationals and others at a disadvantage relative to EU nationals....
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College My expectation is that growth will slow to below 1 per cent. Big issues are what progress is made in Brexit discussions....
...Financial instability ($500bn QE pumped out each quarter by G4 central banks, negative bond yields, effectively insolvent (absent public subsidies) global banks, low levels of lending, high real rates for...
...James Roy and Steve Herman, the co-chairmen of the steering committee of plaintiff’s lawyers, described the amicus briefs as a “Hail Mary” attempt by BP “when all other options run out”....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...As well as his role of dean of LBS, Prof Likierman is non-executive chairman of the National Audit Office and a non-executive director of Barclays Bank....
...It was the Queen who set the tone, in a nearly week-long tour suffused with historical symbolism that would have been unimaginable to her grandfather, George V, the last royal state visitor to Ireland in...
...National Portrait Gallery....
...Mother of God: A History of the Virgin Mary By Miri Rubin Penguin, £30 Jewish girl makes good or, rather, God in a highly original take on the veneration of Mary over 2,000 years....
...The Queen subsidised her mother and was reported to have paid off her overdraft at Coutt’s bank after her death, a sum reputed to run into several million pounds....
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