Hints and tips:
...Hermès, L’Oréal, Dior et al sell an idea of French high-end craftsmanship that derives almost whole cloth from the 17th-century court of Versailles....
...The main index in the UK is the Footsie, which you may hear about on the news. The main index in the US is the S&P 500....
...Then the Americans came....
...But the cheers may be drowned out by gloomy noises off....
...It may be hard to separate the person from the pictures – but she’s not around and the pictures are, and they matter.”...
...If we are right that consumer spending, despite some recent softening on the margin, is still at or above trend, that is another thing for Powell et al to fret over....
...OpenAI’s groundbreaking products, ChatGPT and Dall-E, have captured the world’s imagination and will fundamentally change how we work, learn and express ourselves creatively....
...The primary driver of wealth, the primary asset on most Americans' balance sheet, is a home. Most of the ways in which Americans build wealth involves borrowing money....
...The two men — a 42-year-old product of the middle class and a 78-year-old art patron and heir of extreme wealth — are not said to be close....
...Biden has also continued to give billions in military aid with only minimal conditions attached to Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s dictatorial regime in Egypt....
...Their dominance may outlast you....
...In May, she fled violence in her village in the southern state of Central Equatoria to settle in a holding camp in Yei, some 30km from home....
...In June, South African energy company Anglo American mimicked Rusal’s spin-off with a float of its coal business Thungela Resources....
...In the US, a survey by the American Pet Products Association in December found that 10 per cent of respondents got a new pet as a direct result of the pandemic....
...Actually, he has quite a few — a level of extravagance far beyond what the others enjoy, and beyond even the levels of some of the world’s largest corporations and their executives....
...Et cetera, ad nauseam. The numbers seem to back up the thesis....
...Although this last theme might seem oddly non-political, that positive-affect language was a hallmark of politically left-leaning trolls in the 2016 election interference (Marcellino, Cox, et al., 2020)....
...(FT) KKR homes in on Japan property The US private equity firm is planning to participate in a wave of transactions generated by railway companies, manufacturers and other corporations with substantial...
...The days of easy money in football may be over....
...Sign up and tune in tomorrow, August 5, from 12-1pm ET here. Biden’s plan for US power generation . . . Joe Biden wants to cut carbon out of American electricity by 2035....
...al — arrived....
...Sign up and tune in on Wednesday August 5 from 12-1pm ET here....
...Capital Economics says some state-owned enterprises may struggle to service their debts....
...Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
...Fewer than 3 per cent of Americans had been tested by mid-May. Trump also boasted about his grasp of science....
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