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...Wednesday’s strong cast was led by Lauren Cuthbertson in the consoling “Pie Jesu” and Melissa Hamilton in the “Agnus Dei”, both coached by Darcey Bussell....
...Here’s why S&P is making the U-turn....
...“If we go into the autumn with demand rising and supply tight, that will continue to have upward pressure,” said Daniel Yergin, vice-chair of S&P Global....
...Here’s what else I’m keeping tabs on today: Zelenskyy in Washington: US president Joe Biden will host Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House....
...Shale operators held fast to their capital restraint, despite repeated pleas from the White House for more oil supply....
...Contracts tracking Wall Street’s blue-chip S&P 500 and those tracking the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 were flat ahead of the New York open....
...They had already been hit late last week after the White House issued its first warning of an “immediate threat” of invasion, with the S&P dropping almost 2 per cent on Friday....
...Currie said the bank forecast “a clear risk” of crude prices rising to $125 a barrel even without direct oil sanctions....
...This isn’t to discount some of COP26’s outcomes....
...It is also a product of companies’ own failures, says Charlie Penner, who led Engine No 1’s successful proxy war this year against Exxon....
...Jeremy HuntFormer UK foreign secretary and health secretary Mo IbrahimFounder and chair, Mo Ibrahim Foundation Philip JansenChief executive, BT Group Liz JarmanChief executive, Living Goods Salim S...
...At Novartis, Ms Klinger had already begun to push for more diversity in the largely white and male legal profession....
...Compston wore a white suit, set up a gallery in Shoreditch called Factual Nonsense and arranged art festivals on Hoxton Square, such as 1993’s “The Fete Worse Than Death”....
...Since the financial crash, they have lain a dormant, lonely archipelago of naked white isles....
...What value (in £'s) does it unlock?...
...Maike Currie is an investment director at Fidelity International. The views expressed are personal. Email: maike.currie@fil.com. Twitter: @MaikeCurrie...
...As the British comic Nish Kumar put it at the launch of BBC2’s new political comedy series The Mash Report: “We are living in an era of self-satirising politicians.”...
...The Graduate(s)....
...White & Case has replaced Oliver Brettle as executive partner with Melissa Butler, a London-based capital markets partner. Brettle will remain on the firm’s executive committee....
...A Line Made By Walking , by Sara Baume, William Heinemann, RRP£12.99, 320 pages Melissa Harrison is author of ‘At Hawthorn Time’ (Bloomsbury) Photograph: Getty Images...
...One of 2017’s most rewarding novels....
...A haven for William Forsythe’s repertoire under director Aaron S....
...Threat of a Jobless Future, by Martin Ford, Basic Books, RRP$28.99 If The Second Machine Age (by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee) was last year’s tech-economy title of choice, this book may be 2015’s...
...Region, £6.50, The Wine Society • Fabrice Durou, Exception Malbec 2011, £6.75, Lea & Sandeman • Cavit 2011 Teroldego Rotaliano, £6.95, The Wine Society • Château Gillet 2012 Bordeaux Rouge, £6.99, M&S...
...The supporting characters are as spooky as ever: white make-up, coloured contact lenses, off-blond hairpieces....
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