Hints and tips:
...In recent years we’ve seen Rami Malek playing Freddie Mercury, and Taron Egerton doing Elton....
...Nasa asked Raymond Loewy to help turn the hull of the third stage of a Saturn V rocket into a home in which a three-man crew could live for three months at a time....
...Mayhem persists among the US’s property and casualty insurers. Auto-insurance businesses are still losing money....
...“Elton John was playing with expressions of femininity in the ’70s and then Freddie Mercury and Prince.”...
...“The Russians’ strategy is to show it is much more resilient to casualties than Ukraine,” said Oleksandr V Danylyuk, head of the Centre for Defence Reforms, a think-tank in Kyiv....
...With his own work off limits in China and recently censored in Hong Kong, Ai is coruscating about western museums such as the Pompidou, Tate and the V&A that have been paid millions by state-owned companies...
...Let us know what fintech predictions you have for the rest of the year at imani.moise@ft.com and sid.v@ft.com....
...“There will be a lot of casualties. Without sounding like a vulture that presents opportunities,” chief executive Geoff Jones told the Financial Times....
...According to real estate services and investment company CBRE, prime rents for apartments in Amsterdam fell by 3.3 per cent in the year leading up to the fourth quarter of 2020....
...They have said: a) although two employees of his company Mercury — Inna Kim and Zhanel Valiyeva — and a consultant who had worked for his companies — Safkhan Shahmammadli — did work on the pipeline scheme...
...Centre console, deep V planing hull for saltwater fishing. Seriously overhorsed, with what looks like three 200hp Mercury outboards....
...The companies declined to comment....
...There are other clues that Compass does not see that elusive V-shaped recovery....
...Casting doubt on the merits of a V-shaped recovery is hardly an earth-shattering view....
...Stanley Druckenmiller, a former hedge fund manager, said that “the excitement of reopening is allowing a lot of these companies that have been casualties of Covid to come back and come back in force”....
...Speaking at the FT’s Global Boardroom event, he said: “I am not convinced that we are going to have a V-shaped recovery. I think it will be more like a U.”...
...This reflects the strong performance of large tech and healthcare companies of late that happen to dominate the benchmark....
...According to data from CB Insights and Willis Towers Watson, between 2012 and the first quarter of 2019, there were 627 deals involving investment in property and casualty insurtech companies....
...All of this follows Konstantin Strukov’s Uzhuralzoloto Group of Companies buying into POG in February....
...Exane likes Sampo and Lancashire as the most defensive of the property and casualty insurers....
...FADE OUT Meanwhile, the hunt for asset management casualties from the sharpest markets selloff in living memory remains an oddly low-key exercise....
...Last year was not only the US banking sector’s first casualty-free year since 2006 but profits across America’s banks rose 44 per cent in 2018. (FT) Eurostar no-deal chaos predicted Chaos....
...EU parties and the parliament have lobbied Facebook to exempt them from the rules — but the company is holding firm....
...At once alien and familiar, the Moon now bewitches dreamers such as Elon Musk, the Tesla entrepreneur who founded and heads the private company SpaceX....
...(FT) US casualties in Syria US soldiers have been killed by an explosion in Syria while carrying out a “routine patrol”, according to the anti-Isis military coalition in the region....
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