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...The Federal Reserve’s rate-setters still expect to make about three quarter-point rate cuts this year, its chair Jay Powell said in an interview that aired last night....
...At the London Classic in December, he finished third behind England’s Michael Adams....
...Puzzle 2524 Vladimir Fedoseev v Magnus Carlsen, world rapid, Riyadh 2017. White played 1 Ke2? a3 after which the knight could not stop the pawn....
...The eight-time British champion Michael Adams had a peak of 2761 back in 2013, but is currently 2671 at age 52....
...It is in the “golden triangle” bordered by the Champs-Élysées, avenue Montaigne and avenue Georges V; neighbours include couturiers and luxury goods stores such as Céline and Courrèges....
...Wadsworth v Fernandez was an imaginative king hunt, and the best attacking game of the championship....
...Caret is the marginal sign, like an inverted V, that means “it is missing” or “there is a lack”....
...Puzzle 2549 Oleksandr Bortnyk v Jeffery Xiong, Titled Tuesday 2023. Black to move and win. Click here for solution...
...The benchmark 10-year yield slid as much as 12bp after the Treasury’s refunding announcement, v FactSet....
...Aml Ameen lends MLK a gentle, downplayed gravitas, while Jeffrey Wright is spiky as a caustic, combative Adam Clayton Powell, the politician who was among Rustin’s fiercest opponents....
...Lucy Powell, shadow leader of the House of Commons, is discussing with each policy team whether their main proposals need legislation and, if so, how urgently they would need to be prioritised....
...FT contributing editor Adam Tooze bemoans governments’ lack of investment in vaccines, an area with an unbeatable cost-benefit ratio....
...Michael Adams totalled an impressive 8/9 on top board with a performance rating of 2761....
...At the embassy, I had to lobby the Clinton administration against giving Gerry Adams a visa to visit the US even while the IRA armed campaign continued....
...Soft greys and browns represent the wool trade; the brighter pinks and blues were based on an 18th-century Spitalfields silk dress at the V&A....
...However, in the boom years of the 1970s to 1990s the very best talents Nigel Short and Michael Adams both preferred to bypass university....
...Puzzle 2532 Artur Davtyan v Vladislav Kovalev, Dubai 2023. Black to move and win. Click here for solution...
...Fed chair Jay Powell even half-hinted that a crisis or two might help to take the steam out of the economy....
...Adam SamsonThe destruction is just absolutely enormous and it’s affecting a really vast area both in Turkey and in Syria. Marc FilippinoThat’s the FT’s Adam Samson....
...Middle East: The European postwar settlement after 1945 teaches us that there will be no peace in the region without politics, writes Columbia University historian Adam Tooze....
...One good read A sharp addition to the dedollarisation debate from Adam Tooze. This article has been amended to correct errors in the second chart...
...The Jules Verne of investment research (H/T Adam Tooze) has left Credit Suisse after it was devoured by UBS....
...While the rate of price increases is moderating in Europe, and has slowed sharply in the US, Federal Reserve chair Jay Powell and president of the European Central Bank Christine Lagarde were clear last...
...In room 55B, across from Dürer’s “Adam and Eve”, hung a small wooden mannequin, based on Dürer’s treatise on the proportions of the human body....
...Federal Reserve chair Jay Powell said on Tuesday that reducing inflation would take a “significant period of time”, Turkey declared a state of emergency in areas ravaged by the region’s worst earthquake...
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