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...Honestly, guys, did you guys know who Eugene V Debs was before we started taping?...
...I’ve also fallen head over heels for two-year-old Australian brand Palma Martin, which combines old world nostalgia with a modern lens....
...As ever, reach out to Imani (imani.moise@ft.com) and me (sid.v@ft.com) with your thoughts, suggestions and comments. We’ll be back again next Monday. Happy reading!...
...Maybe a contributing factor could be if a person grew up in the former Soviet Union and went to Moscow State University and attended on a V I Lenin academic scholarship.”...
...Kuala Lumpur also has agreements with Russia, for the Sputnik V vaccine, and with AstraZeneca....
...Asian countries have made different preparations to import vaccines, including the one developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford university, Russia’s Sputnik V and China’s CoronaVac....
...The average price of a home sold by E&V last year was up 29 per cent on the year before. New buyers and existing owners are using their homes for longer....
...Germans account for the highest proportion of foreign purchasers in Mallorca, making up 56 per cent of E&V’s buyers last year....
...A three-bedroom villa in Taormina is on the market for €1.35m with E&V....
...In 2017, the number of transactions in Palma rose 21 per cent year-on-year, with 43 per cent of all Mallorca sales in Palma, according to E&V....
...was built to impress and intimidate by Francis I, a king whose mother called him “César”, and who was working out his standing not just in relation to his fellow rulers — the Holy Roman emperor Charles V...
...Although you can buy less idiosyncratic new builds in Palm Springs, or Spanish-style mansions in sought-after neighbourhoods such as Old Las Palmas, most property hunters want original designs....
...Some of the yachts are likely to join the Superyacht Cup Cowes (July 22-25), an event that has been “imported” from Palma, Mallorca, specially for Olympic year....
...In Palma, Jonathan Syrett of Camper & Nicholsons International, another big broker, agrees. “Generally it’s been very slow,” he says. “I think yachting has been affected quite badly....
...Brian De Palma’s Redacted and Paul Haggis’s In the Valley of Elah, both about Iraq, will soon shake their brave and gory radicalism at UK audiences....
...I think the more interesting question is likely to be large cap v small cap question - where we favour large caps....
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