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...Robert Maxwell, the late owner of the Mirror, stole hundreds of millions from the company’s pension fund....
...As Wachowiak et al correctly note, the recent pressures militating in favour of greater cooperation (Ukraine, a second Trump presidency, fiscal constraints), “have not, to date, proven sufficient to overcome...
...Tiger Woods, one of golf’s most bankable stars, reportedly turned down a huge sum to join, but other leading players, including Phil Mickelson, Dustin Johnson and Brooks Koepka, signed up....
...The recent rise of the Faangs, et al, looks like a knee-jerk reaction to the fall in rates and rate expectations that followed the banking mess (the 10-year yield has fallen from 4-ish per cent to 3.6-ish...
...Et tu Brutus? Or in Boris Johnson’s case, Et pretty much everyone — Rishi, Sajid, even Priti for goodness sake (non-aficionados of UK politics should Google them)....
...His father’s company — then called the Al-Zahawi Group, but now known as Iraq Projects Business Development (IPBD) — quickly procured a contract to provide cleaning, logistics and support services to the...
...In the case outlined by Haddad et al, Goltz said investors were buying a stock “even though the price has gone up”, so demand is more inelastic and “you can have additional volatility from shifts in demand...
...But this is the landscape as it emerged after the December 2019 election at which Boris Johnson was triumphant....
...We have our evil leader for today (you-know-who in Moscow), but do Biden, Johnson, Macron et al fit the bill as statesmen?...
...And generally speaking, they are the stocks that have been hardest hit by the past, probably 12 to 14 months of regulatory crackdown under Xi Jinping, who has been sort of making Alibaba, Tencent et al feel...
...As Lord David Pannick QC et al observed in a letter to the Times this week the doctrine of necessity requires “grave and imminent peril” to which the state in question has not contributed....
...All assets may perform badly under stagflation, but we’d rather own Pepsi, Johnson & Johnson, Kimberly-Clark, Bristol-Myers et al than sit and watch our cash lose its earnings power....
...Former US vice-president Al Gore and financier David Blood are launching a climate change asset manager that will largely focus on private markets....
...By avoiding the distribution of realised capital gains, the average ETF has had a tax burden 0.92 percentage points lower than that of the typical mutual fund over the past five years, Moussawi et al found...
...(NPR) Opinion: There is still work to be done cracking down on methane and other superpollutants (Bledsoe et al, NYT)...
...(FT) Why Starbucks’ boss is bullish If housebound consumers have discovered how much they can save by skipping their morning lattes, nobody told Starbucks’ chief executive Kevin Johnson....
...On the FT.com homepage from 7pm ET. Disney investor day Shareholders will be updated on the strategy of the world’s largest entertainment company to tackle the coronavirus crisis....
...The case, Brown et al. vs USA Taekwondo et al., deals with sexual abuse suffered by three young former Olympic hopefuls in taekwondo, whose coach was convicted and sent to prison in 2015....
...In their astute article on the much heralded reform of the British civil service (“The smashing of the British state”, Magazine, FT Weekend, October 10), Sebastian Payne et al. asked perhaps the most pertinent...
...“The fact that [David] Cameron, [Jeremy] Heywood (the most powerful civil servant) et al did not understand many basic features of how the world works is why I and a few others gambled on the referendum,...
...(WSJ) What else we’re reading Just one in 10 fund managers expect V-shaped recovery V, U, W, L — just a handful of the letter-shaped recoveries that investors have put forward as possible paths for the...
...(FT) Johnson’s illness makes him more powerful Many British voters have discovered they were more attached to Boris Johnson than they realised: the divisive PM’s struggle with Covid-19 has left all but...
...Boris Johnson will map Britain’s phased exit from lockdown in a televised address on Sunday, but Downing Street insisted that any immediate easing would be “very limited”....
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...(FT) Muslim Brotherhood struggles to survive The Sunni Islamist organisation has been a useful bogeyman for the regime of Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, which has mounted a sweeping crackdown against recent uprisings...
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