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...Raffles reopened in late 2019 after a two-year, multimillion-pound renovation, and has never been better: all its verandas, spinning fans and four-poster-bed charms intact, but with showcase-y new bars and...
...Tesla’s tentacles are spreading into Thailand too, with the launch of the Model 3 and Model Y there....
...Next door is Beefbar, the haute “street food” concept restaurant that has played well in places like Monte Carlo, Dubai and Sardinia’s Costa Smeralda....
...The Tesla Model Y, a luxury electric SUV, was the best-selling vehicle of any type in California in the first quarter of this year....
...From Pinot Blanc to Sangiovese, the varietals deliver quality wines – you can sample them at established producers such as Hacienda La Lomita, Monte Xanic and Santo Tomás (founded in 1888, it’s the oldest...
...Miriam l Betz Biblioteca de Menéndez Pelayo, Santander This library holds 41,500 titles from the collection of the 19th-century Spanish intellectual Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo, who “donated the collection...
...M&A hinges on Shaw Mobile sale (Reuters) Ireland’s AIB fined €83 mn over tracker mortgage scandal (FT) Stellantis invests €50mn in lithium start-up to secure car battery metals (FT) Monte dei Paschi:...
...It’s not flashy or fash-y, but it’s a stealth bestseller — Sézane says it’s sold more than 130,000 of the jackets since introducing the style....
...Shaw + Smith is a prominent and reliable producer, with the 2020 vintage particularly promising. It is widely available and costs from £15.35 in the UK....
...When he put down roots two decades ago on the slopes of Monte Amiata, between the Val d’Orcia and Maremma, he set about learning its secret paths and forests, ruins and byways, on foot....
...Instructors and courses at Plas y Brenin National Outdoor Centre, pyb.co.uk. Pete’s Eats, petes-eats.co.uk...
...Recommended white wines Monte del Frà 2018 Custoza 12.5% £12.50 Berry Bros & Rudd Maquina & Tabla, El Oso y La Alemana 2018 Vino de España 13.8% £13.95 Lea & Sandeman Dog Point Sauvignon Blanc 2019 Marlborough...
...Philip Shaw, chief economist at Investec: No....
...If sipping whisky neat is not your thing, the whisky cocktails are also excellent: I had a Monte Carlo, made with bourbon, Benedictine and bitters....
...“They stood by Trump on the trade issues even though it was hurting their pocketbooks, and then got repaid with an SRE knife between their shoulder blades,” Monte Shaw, executive director of the Iowa Renewable...
...The slopes of its highest peak, Monte Epomeo, are here and there shorn and cultivated into neat vineyards (a handful of notable wineries, among them Pietratorcia and Casa D’Ambra, produce mineral-y whites...
...But as Oprah pointed out at the Apple event last month, the iPhone is in “a billion pockets, y’all — a billion pockets”....
...“Banks’ refusal to pay in the ‘no blame scenario’ means it will still be the victim left footing the bill, which seems entirely unjust,” says Gareth Shaw, money expert at Which?...
...But when you have the likes of Elliott Management, Carl Icahn and DE Shaw owning a portion of the tracking stock being bought by Dell, you should expect a bit of a fight....
Rodrigo Rato was chair of Spanish bank which offered incentives to top staff
...The pleasurable frisson of being a reinsurer comes from a season that is just loss-y enough to increase rates dramatically without the actual pain of your own company losing capital....
...He also held annual parties aboard one of the world’s largest luxury yachts, the Indian Empress, at the Monte Carlo Grand Prix....
...John Van Reenan, Gordon Y Billard professor of management and economics, MIT Sloan School of Management Very little: maybe 1 per cent in real terms....
...Philip Shaw, chief economist, Investec It seems likely that rates will continue to rise over the next few years....
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