Hints and tips:
...Treasure trove: Tim Harford explains what the price of a 2,000-year-old Roman nail tells us about value....
...kadhim@ft.com / sid.v@ft.com...
...Their fortunes are not being flattered by central bank liquidity....
...The industry’s pandemic-fuelled ecommerce boom may be the final nail in the coffin for bargain grocers....
...You can get your hair done but not your nails until Monday....
...Builders, miners and banks who tapped investors for cash during the financial crisis a decade ago, raising £76bn in 2009, have stronger balance sheets....
...Earlier optimistic hopes of a sharp V-shaped British recovery seem to be fading as new coronavirus spikes appear....
...Wong held a tablet with a compass needle over the artwork to prove his point: “This compass just whirled. So I took the sculpture and put it outside.”...
...Compass also said it had secured waivers on net debt covenant tests due September 2020 and March 2021....
...Letter in response to this article: Oil price crunch could be bad news for Russia / From Andrei V Belyi, University of Eastern Finland...
...The shares are trading on a c30% EV/EBITDA 20e discount to Compass. Stifel on Aveva? Sure, if we must....
...Metro Bank goes onto the “buy” list at Investec. Analyst Ian Gordon reckons it’s now cheap enough to offset the fact that it’s Metro Bank....
...DD’s Indap v NYU’s Damodaran: Is stock compensation good or bad?...
...As the Myriad case showed, “this isn’t a well understood area — it’s not like earnings announcements or central banks setting rates,” he says....
...The biggest activist fight — Nelson Peltz v Procter & Gamble — was only recently settled, two months after a shareholder vote....
...(FT) Trump v the global community Martin Wolf on Donald Trump’s America First world view and how human affairs are too interconnected to be the product of purely national decision-making....
...This growth rate is the lowest since the global financial crisis and recession of 2009 and only on a par with growth in 2008, the year the US investment bank Lehman Brothers failed....
...And exit consents are a bit like the big, rusty-nail-driven-in stick to consent payments’ carrot....
...The result was the GRID Compass, which went into production in 1982....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...Recently, the needle and the stitch have made their bid for serious appreciation in a number of shows, especially the spectacular exhibition last year at the V&A....
...There are ceramics in the walls and floors in the V&A. Why not in a dome too? The porcelain vessels are held on a red shelf....
...“A rally past the first week of May would force us to reconsider this view, as it would suggest a ‘V’ bottom is more likely.”...
...Alain Ducasse, the French super chef, is overseeing the revamp of the kitchens at the old Dostyk hotel, whose cooks are being trained at the George V and Plaza Atheneein Paris....
...Jansi, a 28-year-old with bright pink nail polish, is scraping together the Rs10,000 needed for castration by a quack-doctor....
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