Hints and tips:
...Hermès, L’Oréal, Dior et al sell an idea of French high-end craftsmanship that derives almost whole cloth from the 17th-century court of Versailles....
...Somewhere there is a vault with all the gold stored in it if it’s a physical product. And that will track the gold price for you and deliver a return equivalent to the rises or falls in the gold price....
...Yet that same year, it didn’t have a single film in the American box-office top 10....
...If we are right that consumer spending, despite some recent softening on the margin, is still at or above trend, that is another thing for Powell et al to fret over....
...As always, you can reach us at Imani.Moise@ft.com or Sid.V@ft.com. Thanks for reading....
...(NPR) Opinion: There is still work to be done cracking down on methane and other superpollutants (Bledsoe et al, NYT)...
...First, there are a lot of banks in America (4,987 are insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation)....
...“Price and availability are still the leading driving factors for most purchase decisions,” Don Vaughn, head of product at Invisibly, a personal data company, told Moral Money....
...After year-on-year gross domestic product growth of 29.3 per cent in 2013, the economy then shrank 21.4 per cent between 2015 and 2018, weakened by falling oil prices, armed conflict and mismanagement, say...
...Et cetera, ad nauseam. The numbers seem to back up the thesis....
...(FT) KKR homes in on Japan property The US private equity firm is planning to participate in a wave of transactions generated by railway companies, manufacturers and other corporations with substantial...
...But while Adidas has been making money on African American stars, there have been fewer American voices in top roles....
...Sign up and tune in tomorrow, August 5, from 12-1pm ET here. Biden’s plan for US power generation . . . Joe Biden wants to cut carbon out of American electricity by 2035....
...“There is no choice but restructurings, downsizing, mergers,” says Karen Young, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, a think-tank....
...Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
...The CDC only issued a cryptic tweet advising Americans to: “Follow the instructions on the product label.” “I can’t even get my calls returned,” says Garrett....
...This new passion for tackling food loss is also helping sell new financial products....
...The median home price is $1.2m, which is almost quadruple the national average. Yet the county’s “affordable housing” endowment is only $6.3m, from which it has to leverage an annual budget....
...This finding is also in line with previous literature on the subject (Yoshikawa et al., 1995; Pras et al., 2009; Pras & Guostavino, 2010)....
...More than a year after launching its quest for a second North American headquarters, or “HQ2”, the company has finally decided on a location for a new home....
...Even at the time of its closure in 2004, it was making more than 1m products a day. It is now the new home of TalkTalk, the first FTSE 250 business to move its head office to Greater Manchester....
...home and body....
...Not only did he design and manufacture cheap homes with his Standard Houses Corporation but he built entire settlements in Indian Head and Suitland, Maryland....
...My style icon is Sheikha Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned, wife of the former Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani....
...A reform of US corporation tax would reduce the competitive advantage of the UK’s present corporation tax policy....
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