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...Selling Mayfair: The new owner of the Sotheby’s London real estate franchise aims to disrupt the business of selling multimillion-pound homes in the city....
...Retail traders bet on Turkey When you think of the world’s hottest equities markets, Turkey may not spring to mind....
...The entity was created in 1932 as a state-backed collection of 11 wholesale co-operative banks that jointly raise ultra-cheap debt to extend loans....
...From establishing the modern welfare state to nationalisation — including the Bank of England — to starting to decolonise, the Attlee government defined the postwar settlement....
...And so that kind of mission comes right through him....
...Context: Since last year, Brussels has wrestled with what has been dubbed a “reception crisis” owing to the Belgian state being unable to provide homes for many people applying for asylum....
...This year, it has found itself managing the sale of Silicon Valley Bank’s remaining assets, advising the board of Credit Suisse in the run-up to its state-brokered takeover by UBS, and assisting gold miner...
...Take-home pay will rise more quickly than consumer prices, while people receiving the state pension or working-age benefits will see their payments increase by 8.5 per cent and 6.7 per cent, respectively...
...As a fellow traveller, I admire this mission statement, but I dissent from many of its stopping points. Oudolf finds beauty in seed heads and dead stems....
...The Irish connection Scientific espionage has long been a core mission for Russia’s intelligence agencies....
...So they agreed that rather than meeting in public, they would go to Gähwiler’s home for dinner....
...“I mean, there are some people who do what I do who not only fight these cases but then [make them their] mission in life . . . I see my role more as a trial lawyer.”...
...This week will see further walkouts by teachers and civil servants among others in what has now become a spring of discontent....
...Or the state of coral, which is precarious the world over, but studied here in depth....
...Freeman said he hailed from an affluent New Jersey suburb and had created the Wyoming LLC for his Bed Bath shares to avoid his home address being listed....
...It belongs to the French state, the collection belongs to the state, and the [combination] of the royal past and the republican reality of a museum is something extremely strong, and it has become somehow...
...Ant’s global ambitions remain undimmed Jack Ma’s Ant Group is pressing on with its international expansion, starting a bank in Singapore and creating a universal QR code, even as its revamp at home remains...
...It’s been my home for a long time. I don’t want it to miss this opportunity....
...So the Bank of England, which has done an outstanding job since its independence, now has my wholehearted support in its mission to defeat inflation and I today confirm we will not change its remit....
...Zillow alumni Spencer Rascoff and Austin Allison founded the company in 2020 with a mission to make second-home ownership possible and enjoyable for more people....
...And our lower rate of innovation explains almost all our productivity gap with the United States....
...After a 22-year stint on Wall Street, she came back to her home state and helped to write many of the new crypto laws....
...Chief executive Herbert Diess has made it his mission to take on Tesla in the electric race by committing €52bn to develop battery-powered models....
...This realisation is lending more momentum to what activists call the “spring revolution”....
...But hope springs eternal within the sector. This week, the UK’s second largest airport Gatwick — which is suffering badly itself — will kick off its campaign for expansion....
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