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...boss leaves BHP’s ‘reserved’ CEO Satellite groups join orbits HSBC CEO’s surprise departure At an away day for senior HSBC executives in the quaint English town of Windsor in December, chief executive Noel...
...The proprietor of a Bond Street salon in the 1860s had a lucrative trade in blackmailing her clients under the threat of revealing which treatments they’d had....
...What’s the name of August Wilhelmj’s 1871 arrangement of the second movement of Bach’s Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D Major? What’s the world’s oldest currency that’s still in use?...
...So it’d be interesting to see who gets that job in the end. Marc Filippino Owen Walker is the FT’s European banking correspondent. Thank you, Owen. Owen Walker Great. Thanks very much....
...With a wry smile, he wonders if that’s a blessing: “He’d want to take over the stage, and get pissed off if he didn’t get top billing.”...
...Until 10 December, bathchristmasmarket.co.uk Les Lumières de Noël, Montbéliard As an alternative to Alsace’s well known Christkindelsmärik in Strasbourg, head to Montbéliard for its Lumières de Noël festivities...
...“I guess I’d had this view of [the plays] that Hal was involved in some japes,” says Icke. “It was slightly wild and they were nicking traffic cones or whatever....
...Three other major works — Bach’s Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 903 and Liszt’s mighty Piano Sonata in B Minor and Alban Berg’s Piano Sonata, Op 1 — provide the staging posts....
...The excellent, quick-changing cast do some conjuring of their own: you’d swear there were more than five of them. But what really makes it is an emotional ambush....
...I think I’d have loved Jackie....
...Job moves Skadden has hired Noel Hughes as a high-yield partner on its leveraged finance team. He joins in London from Linklaters....
...Retire at 55 and you’d need £1.3mn, according to calculations by Interactive Investor, assuming 5 per cent investment growth on the fund, and 2 per cent annual increase in withdrawals....
...The recommended accompaniment is a house vin d’orange (like a negroni, but less aggressive)....
...“I do think that the smaller private boutiques are certainly in a position where they’d be considering selling themselves.”...
...Celebrated tax exiles range from playwright Noël Coward to actors Sean Connery and Gérard Depardieu....
...coincided with a passage through Glasgow; tux-clad on the observation car’s open-air platform, I watched industrial units — Roofing, Packaging Solutions, Colour Printing — and graffitied cuttings go by, like Noël...
...It seemed to be Italy’s own riposte to Noël Coward’s popular song, about how only “mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun”....
...That’d miss the point. Edwin Heathcote is the FT’s architecture and design critic Find out about our latest stories first — follow @ftweekend on Twitter...
...And Harrison notes the abuse of Dingley on social media and in radio phone-ins after her appointment: “I felt we’d stepped a little bit back into the 1970s.”...
...HSBC chief executive Noel Quinn has consistently denied that there’s any indication that the insurer-turned-activist has political motivations....
...He’s modelling his look on his style icon, that other busy businessman George Clooney from One Fine Day, but he’d never tell his colleagues that because they’d start rubbing their puffers at him in mockery...
...This story appears a few days before Chanel arrives in Senegal, now a fast-growing luxury destination, to stage a Métiers d’Art show....
...I’d rather the truth at all costs. What trait do you find most irritating in yourself?A tendency to overthink....
...On the sidelines, HSBC chief executive Noel Quinn said he believed China’s prospects were positive when asked if he felt Hong Kong was back in business....
...And Jean-Noël Barrot, minister delegate for the digital economy, cannot handle matters involving Uber, where his sister is a communications chief. These concessions haven’t appeased the population....
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