Hints and tips:
...“The markets feel the door is open in terms of reacting strongly to weak PMI data,” said Richard McGuire, head of rates strategy at Rabobank....
...Yet while Richard Sharp’s middleman role, details of which he failed to disclose during the selection process, has placed a question mark over his future, it also highlights a bigger issue....
...Richard Sharp has never given any financial advice to Boris Johnson, nor has Mr Johnson sought any financial advice from him....
...“The market is implying that this hike will kill growth, and reduce inflation, and I think the market is right,” said Mike Riddell, a bond portfolio manager at Allianz Global Investors....
...“European Central Bank demand has been so important to the negative-yield story,” said Mike Riddell, a portfolio manager at Allianz Global Investors....
...Oliver Dowden, the culture secretary, then wrote to Peter Riddell, the commissioner for public appointments, to inform him of the decision....
...Mike Riddell, a portfolio manager at Allianz Global Investors, described the market move as “bonkers”....
...Instead what we got was the impression of the ECB not being in control’ Richard McGuire of Rabobank And Christine Lagarde — fresh to the top job at the European Central Bank — triggered a sovereign bond...
Gender biased data can mask important differences - with dangerous consequences
Leading writers including Simon Schama, Alastair Campbell, Janine Gibson and Lionel Barber reflect on our times
At London's St Pancras station the FT heard how the piano can still make people stop in their tracks.
...The libretto (a collaboration by the Egyptologist Shalom Goldman, the designers Robert Israel and Richard Riddell, and Jerome Robbins) follows Einstein and Satyagraha in presenting a sequence of meditative...
Philippa Perry on how to shift from longer term goals to being in the present
...Additional reporting by Richard Henderson and Philip Georgiadis...
Abortion legislation is becoming more restrictive in the US - but rates are following a different trend
The FT digs into the data for the truth about the fertility 'cliff-edge'
The FT's data journalists John Burn-Murdoch and Federica Cocco examine the data behind the measles resurgence
Are companies hiding behind philanthropic giving?
Global GDP is expected to rise by 3 per cent yet economic growth is in conflict with environmental targets
LA artist Martine Syms explores the relationship between cars and culture ahead of Frieze art fair
What to look for in the year ahead from journalists on the spot around the world
...Robin Butler and Richard Wilson, Lord Armstrong’s successors, similarly faced criticism for trying to sort out headaches for prime ministers, generally to do with ministers’ behaviour....
...Even husband Richard says “apart from the bore watching the History Channel” he doesn’t feature at all. “Thank God.”...
...“We wanted to fast-track our thinking,” says Richard Mason, senior manager of community and corporate responsibility....
...“Emerging market equities have been a big disappointment for some time and going into 2014 we see a degree of pessimism about the asset class that we haven’t seen for many years,” said Richard Titherington...
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