Hints and tips:
...Everyone expects Jay Powell et al to say “no rate increase today, but maybe in a month”....
...Today’s top stories The US Federal Reserve announces its decision on interest rates at 2pm ET/7pm London time today. Check back here for details and reaction....
...Hotel....
...Trump et al v....
...I don't want to sit in this hotel for two weeks....
...I could see Hepburn et al approving of the premise of Louis Vuitton’s offering this season. The house describes the collection as a step into a “stylistically vague” territory....
...Biya, 88, spends much of his time at the Intercontinental Hotel in Geneva. His four decades in power mean that most Cameroonians — 62 per cent of whom are under 25 — have known only one leader....
...It is slightly more realistic to hope that Facebook et al will be forced into more equitable revenue sharing with the media. Such platforms are a huge part of the problem....
...EQT, the Swedish fund manager the saying of whose name always invites an involuntary “et répète”, is down on rubbish half-year results....
...MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed bin Salman , by Ben Hubbard, William Collins, RRP£20, 384 pages Malise Ruthven is the author of ‘L’Arabie des Saoud: Wahhabisme, violence et corruption’ (La fabrique)...
...Al-Hajri is the brother of Sheikha Al-Anoud, the second wife of Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, the emir of Qatar....
...Barcays likes InterContinental Hotels as part of a sector thing....
...Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
...There’s not much precedent to support the idea that Shina et al can walk away based on a MAC clause: WPP was forced against its will to buy Tempus in 2001, Guy Hands couldn’t scrap a bid for East Surrey...
...In reality, the agency has no police powers at all. “We are not like Interpol,” says Schwartländer....
...Mr Saberwal decided to set out on his own, having seen first-hand “the power of how online could disrupt hotels”....
...In coming years, today’s winners v losers divide may be replaced by a split over climate action....
...on 400 years of opera, in partnership with London’s V&A museum....
...(WaPo) Girls v Boys The US Girl Scouts are suing the Boy Scouts after it dropped “Boy” from its programme name....
...We followed along with FDR, Eisenhower, JFK, Reagan, Clinton and Bush et. al in their postwar course because we wanted to or had to: there was no alternative worthy of considering or competition....
...This was disproved by the trial of US v Zarrab et al, in which a Turkish banker and a gold trader were convicted of laundering Iranian oil and gas revenues....
...Former regulars (Dickens, Gladstone, George Bernard Shaw et al) would be pleased to know that the roast rib of beef, carved at the tableside, is set to return, though the menu has a more contemporary feel...
...One friend, talking about McBride et al blaming him for election-that-never-was....
...By the end of 2008 it owned at least 21 properties and four hotels in the UK, including the 219-bedroom Four Seasons Park Lane Hotel and Hanbury Manor Hotel, a luxury country retreat run by Marriott Hotels...
...We see interest rates falling, bond issuance exploding, and pressure for capital-account liberalization rising… The core of [Xi et al's] strategy is a set of three choices: 1) slow the accumulation of debt...
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