Hints and tips:
...In the last decade St Louis has become the world’s most important chess centre, thanks to generous investment by FT reader Rex Sinquefield....
...She was referring to founder Lee McQueen’s teenage apprenticeships in the 1980s at Anderson & Sheppard and Gieves & Hawkes, where he learnt the exactitude of cut....
...Jamie Ritchie of Sotheby’s; and wine writer Stuart Pigott from Germany....
...A group of flat-sharing friends, led by Olly Alexander’s magnetic Ritchie, throw themselves into a life of hedonism as rumours of a virus affecting gay men become reality....
...Worldwide web’s 33rd birthday Sir Tim Berners-Lee is set to publish his annual letter on the state of his invention and his vision for the future....
...Rex’s “Children of the Revolution” and Lorde’s “Royals” to support them....
...“I don’t think China joining CPTPP would be a disaster for the US,” countered Drew Thompson, a former Pentagon China specialist at Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy....
...If warming and emissions continue at current rates, Britain could be 5C hotter by the end of the century, according to Paul Ritchie, a scientist at Exeter University who researched UK agricultural land use...
...For Sue Lee, who runs a B&B next to the village hall, the lack of connectivity has cost her business....
...He played on songs by Cat Stevens, Lou Reed, Elton John and T-Rex. Working with Bowie proved a turning point. “Back in 1971, when I did ‘Life on Mars?’...
...Lee Raymond, Exxon’s chief executive from 1993 to 2005, added scale with the addition of Mobil in 1999....
...Snyder thought that he should only pay $2m to UBS for its help whereas executives at the bank Jeffrey Sine and Lee Lebrun thought its contract — and months of work — entitled it to $10m....
...It is hard to imagine either of Mr Woods’ two predecessors as chief executive of ExxonMobil, Lee Raymond and Rex Tillerson, enthusing as wholeheartedly about the importance of “engagement, discussion, debates...
...Surprisingly, one of the most powerful addresses was delivered by the sacked secretary of state Rex Tillerson, who spoke at the Virginia Military Institute....
...Meanwhile, the sacking of Rex Tillerson as US secretary of state increased the roster of top-level departures from the Trump administration, leaving investors keeping wary watch on developments in Washington...
...The São Paulo-born artist, who died in 2010, spearheaded the magic realism movement in the 1960s, founding the anti-market Grupo Rex and Rex Gallery in 1966....
...“The pound has started the week on a firmer footing supported by some renewed optimism over ongoing Brexit negotiations,” said Lee Hardman, currency analyst at MUFG....
...From November 4, nationaltheatre.org.uk Photograph: REX/Shutterstock Follow @FTLifeArts on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first....
...Recent events in Washington remained the key driver for equities, as the ousting on Tuesday of Rex Tillerson, US secretary of state, continued to reverberate around the markets....
...However, under previous chief executive Rex Tillerson, who led the company during 2006-16 and is now US secretary of state, Exxon acknowledged the need to address the threat of climate change, and supported...
...Thank you to Rex Tillerson for his service!” The US president later told reporters: “I really didn’t discuss it very much with him, honestly. I made that decision by myself.”...
...Sterling’s gains on the dollar were given extra impetus by broad-based greenback weakness, following reports that President Donald Trump was planning to replace secretary of state Rex Tillerson....
...(FT) Samsung boss gets out of jail early Lee Jae-yong, Samsung’s de facto leader, has been freed from jail with a suspended prison sentence, nearly a year after he was incarcerated for corruption charges...
...Rex Tillerson, his own secretary of state, is reputed to have described his boss as a “f***ing moron”....
...They then delivered a further snub by declining to invite Lee Hsien Loong, Singapore’s prime minister, to President Xi Jinping’s high-profile Belt and Road investment summit last month....
International Edition