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...“We finally started making . . . the S-O-S sign,” she recalled. She suspected that one of the partners who owned the building had locked them out because he did not want to sell....
...The head of Standard Chartered’s investment bank Simon Cooper is leaving as part of a leadership overhaul designed to boost performance at the emerging markets lender....
...The extreme right was behind the failed 2017 plot to murder Rosie Cooper, then a Labour MP, and also the assassination of Jo Cox in 2016....
...Private equity firms were sitting on a record $2.59tn in cash reserves available for buyouts and other investments as of December 15, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence....
...(To avoid confusion, this is the “real Polo”; not the steel bracelet watch, the Polo S, which appeared in 2016.)...
...Others may similarly choose to let the Booker Prize, or Radio 3’s record review, do a similar job of separating sheep from goats....
...Senior executives from Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan and other global banks to speak at the Goldman financial services conference in New York Brazil: Q3 GDP figures EU, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, UK, US: S&...
...If you are looking for a deeply scholarly history of the Dictionary, turn to her previous work, 2012’s Words of the World; this new book is truly a people’s history....
...In 2021 they outperformed the S&P 500 by 1.2 percentage points, but average returns were 17.5 percentage points higher than the market last year....
...For a good idea of what I listen to while I’m writing this email, check out Radio 3’s excellent Night Tracks programme....
...Cooper and Bale previously worked together on 2013’s Out of the Furnace, a downbeat tale of Pennsylvania steel mills. Like their new collaboration, it wasn’t a terrible film....
...Cooper of Ninety One says the global EV market is dominated by China, which accounts for 60 per cent of plug-in electric car sales....
...Meanwhile, de Beauvoir turned her refusal into the trailblazing feminist classic, 1949’s The Second Sex — a book she started not long after the end of the war, but which was fermenting throughout the 1930s...
...Last year’s event featured directors such as Yorgos Lanthimos and insights from the crew of Bradley Cooper’s epic Maestro....
...Sam Cooper, director of market risk solutions at Silicon Valley Bank UK, said: “The upside surprise in UK manufacturing and services PMI data is a welcome bellwether for the UK economy, particularly after...
...“Bennie and the Jets” was the opener, from the album that has given the tour its name, 1973’s Goodbye Yellow Brick Road....
...While there are more to be found in France, prices in the 205’s homeland often go higher: a rare, pristine-condition 1987 205 GTI fetched a record £69,768 at auction house Aguttes’s Tour Auto sale in Versailles...
...“Existing VCT audiences in the UK have just had the door opened for their customers to put more into pensions,” said Matt Cooper, co-chief executive at Crowdcube....
...The blue-chip S&P 500 index lost 0.5 per cent and the tech-heavy Nasdaq shed 0.7 per cent....
...Monday Fiftieth anniversary of Motorola employee Martin Cooper making a call in New York to rival AT&T’s research division Bell Laboratories, widely regarded as the world’s first mobile phone conversation...
...Gillian Cooper, head of energy policy at Citizens Advice, said it was “truly shocking to see the extent of bad practices amongst some energy suppliers”....
...The stylistic range is wide — trumpeter Maalouf was born in Lebanon, raised in France and is a fan of hip-hop and R&B — and collaborators stretch from JP Cooper and Gregory Porter to rapper Erick the Architect...
...Hare points out that Dylan’s mid-1960s look lasted long after Dylan ditched it, widely copied a decade later by punk-era performers such as John Cooper Clarke, among others....
...But Key’s effortless repartee with the wonderfully deadpan Daisy May Cooper (This Country) — playing Thomasine Gooch, a woman of “repellent character” whom Gideon intends to present as a murderous witch...
...For him, a 6 to 8 per cent annual return across all his investments is acceptable (the S&P 500’s historical average is about 10.5 per cent)....
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