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...“The timing and pace of interest rate cuts will affect the banks’ performance in 2024,” said Rafael Quina, head of French, Italian and Portuguese banks at Fitch Ratings....
...His replacement was Rafael Davila, a romantic tenor with substantial experience in both the role and at the Met....
...This was inspired by the performances of the experimental theatre group Taiwan Walker. “It’s all from my memories,” he says....
...In the restaurant is Justin Cogley, who won Best New Chef laurels from Food & Wine, American’s culinary bible, for his delicious work at Aubergine, the restaurant in Fink’s other hotel, L’Auberge Carmel....
...For his London debut, Tieghi-Walker has put together “a history of the US through textile art”....
...In the Fourth of July scene, the arrangement of young bodies on the riverbank soon gels into a mash-up of Manet’s “Déjeuner sur l’herbe” and Seurat’s “Île de la Grande Jatte”....
...Among his highlights for next week are Design Miami, which opens its first edition in the French capital (October 18-22, L’hôtel de Maisons)....
...This sordid affair closed a chapter on Monday, the FT’s Joseph Cotterill and Owen Walker report, after UBS settled with Mozambique....
...L’arbore di Diana (Diana’s Tree) is a satirical comedy, a political allegory, and a steamy tale of sex and transgression....
...(The FT’s Owen Walker live tweeted the event.) CS’s shares were once nearly SFr80 each, Daniel Engler, one shareholder noted. “The price of a chateaubriand.”...
...Things I enjoyed this week Laura Noonan and Owen Walker wrote an engaging FT Magazine piece on UBS chair Colm Kelleher....
...In 2004, the architect Rafael Viñoly (who died earlier this year) was commissioned to produce plans for the site for developers CPC, stuffing it full of condos....
...The scoreline “love” is believed to come from the French word l’oeuf for egg, which resembles a zero....
...Additional reporting by Tom Wilson, Owen Walker and Peter Campbell...
...Everywhere Grant’s style is visible — simplified forms, flat planes, bold colours — whether in two statuesque naked women holding a trompe l’oeil mirror above the fireplace or an acrobat on a door panel...
...Luke Walker, the designer and founder of fashion label LEJ, says he grew a moustache as soon as he could, although he can’t recall what prompted it....
...Meanwhile, Lasry’s compositions lure the listener with tantalising rhythms and an ingenious synthesis of musical styles infused with ’70s pop, memories of cinematic scores and echoes of Scott Walker....
...“We are busy all the time,” says manager Nathan Walker-Unwin. “The demand for this kind of place is amazing.”...
...Enel seeks to slash debt with €21bn asset sale (FT) Exonerated trader sues Deutsche Bank over Libor rigging allegations (FT) Tiger Global’s now-worthless FTX bet had Bain’s due diligence (Bloomberg) L&...
...Carlos Alcaraz is aged 19, ranked in the top 10, and beat Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic on successive days in May....
...For walkers like me, it is irresistible. Hardly anyone I know has ever visited....
...It’s a sad day for me personally and for sports around the world”, said Rafael Nadal, Federer’s great rival on the court and close friend off it....
...But that’s Tom Cruise: a tiny splinter of granite, chiselled straight from the rock of L Ron Hubbard, he’s never stinted in his commitment to serve the multiplex....
...Dall-E is spelled D-A-L-L dash E. It’s a portmanteau of Wall-E, the Pixar robot, and Salvador Dali. And this software is part of a new trend in digital technology called AI-generated art....
...We even met a “bank walker”, Adam, one of an endangered breed employed to patrol the banks looking for weak spots. In winter the canal is drained for maintenance....
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