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...Glittery drag queen Marsha P Johnson, Afro-Brazilian resistance fighter Zumbi dos Palmares and emperor Haile Selassie compete to hold court....
...For analysis of this, and current Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s predicament, read Robert Shrimsley’s excellent column US: Democrats hold their second presidential primary contest, while the Republicans hold...
...His brothers Ludvig and Robert, both raised in Russia, supplied mines and machinery to the Russian government during the Crimean war and developed a paraffin factory on the Caspian Sea into the wealthiest...
...The broad outlines of the changes, based on the Basel III international framework, have been knocking around for a while....
...“Simon’s writing is so spot on — heavily political but with a small p. You see what feels like 50 years of austerity in the eyes and lives of these characters....
...Meanwhile, email us: Robert.Armstrong@ft.com and Ethan.Wu@ft.com Fomo!...
...IBM announced on Friday it plans to sell its Watson Health assets to private equity firm Francisco Partners as it directs more attention to cloud computing....
...Don’t push the panic button just yet, argues Robert Armstrong in the latest edition of Unhedged....
...Among the asset managers that declined to provide diversity data to the FT was the UK’s largest, Legal and General Investment Management, which has told FTSE 100 and S&P 500 companies that from 2022 it will...
...of Robert F Kennedy, and the great-nephew of John F Kennedy....
...Yet as Robert Musil showed in his novel The Man Without Qualities, there was always something chimerical about the Habsburgs and the empire they had fashioned....
...Eight of this year’s 20 large defaults have come from the consumer sector, S&P found, including US retailer Pier 1 Imports....
...Video of the day Reading market reactions to Covid-19 US finance editor Robert Armstrong breaks down the S&P 500 to show how stocks in healthcare, utilities and banks as well as bond yields are all moving...
...combination of disaster movie and political thriller with a surprising provenance: its writer and creator, Craig Mazin, is best-known for writing big-budget comedy sequels, including The Hangover Part II and III...
...Shot: NMC Health plc (“NMC” or the “Company”) notes the recent media speculation and confirms that it has received highly preliminary approaches from Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. L.P....
...Here’s Citigroup’s Robert Buckland: Further economic disruption from the coronavirus and a steep fall in oil prices mean we now expect global EPS to contract by 10% in 2020....
...Robert Crowter-Jones, head of private capital at Saranac Partners, a London wealth management group, believes that investors in large PE funds should be braced for lower returns....
...That’s the one-word summary of the scale of the challenges,” says Alasdair Macdonald of Willis Towers Watson, an actuarial consultancy....
...The problem is that stock indices, from S&P to Russell, do not include publicly traded partnerships since the shareholder tax forms they generate are too complex for mutual funds....
...Equbot with Watson AI Total US ETF (AIEQ) IBM’s Watson artificial intelligence system became a celebrity when it vanquished a brace of human champions in the game show Jeopardy!...
...The contemporary version of Sherlock that he and Moffat launched in 2010, to modest expectations, is “two men sharing a flat” — an unlikely friendship between the detective and John Watson....
...Further, according to the report: The so-called big-three investment consultants of Willis Towers Watson, Mercer and Aon Hewitt, as well as JLT and P-Solve, which are smaller advisers, control 598 of the...
...Towers Watson (Business Services) 26. American Express (Finance) 27. BGL Group (Insurance) 28. Aviva (Insurance) 29. BNP Paribas (Finance) 30. Citibank (Finance)...
...The fifth in the series, set in Paris, has Bruno up to his neck in the court of Henry III as Catholic extremists under the Duke of Guise plan a coup. Well-crafted, exuberant fare....
...There is no need to understand risk-weighted assets or the difference between Basel II and III. Banker pay, the biggest cost, rightly receives the most scrutiny....
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