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...Talking of economics, we have a lot of central bankers giving speeches this week, continuing 2024’s ongoing debate on when interest rates can fall....
...Given the Department [of Justice]’s claims of promoting such dialogue, I do not understand the dramatic decision to arrest Carlos today.”...
...Kevin Birn, head of emissions co-ordination and chief analyst of Canadian oil markets at S&P Global Commodity Insights, reckons that existing projects, currently producing about 3.1mn barrels a day, can...
...Yet, after their success with KXL, American oil sands opponents now have Line 3’s expansion, as well as North Dakota’s suspended Dakota Access pipeline, in their sights....
...Washington has also objected to New Delhi’s decision to purchase Russia’s S-400 air defence system, on the grounds that it would compromise the security of US fighter jets....
...Boss Samir Desai talked of North American expansion and the potential to lend $100bn....
...Patrick Temple-West will be at an S&P Global event on quantifying climate risks....
...Samir Puri investigates The Great Imperial Hangover (Atlantic RRP£20, April), arguing that even as empires dissolve, their legacies inescapably continue to shape our lives....
.... €20; Gammarelli, Via S Chiara 34, 00186 Rome (+3906-6880 1314; gammarelli.com) The last thing I bought and loved was a flowering dogwood tree for my garden from a nursery in northern Italy....
...Samir Desai Funding Circle Mrs May deserves praise for the determination and true grit she has shown to get our divided cabinet, parliament and country to this stage....
...She’s certainly burnished her own brand — as well as making friends in Westminster, she’s written a book (The Virgin Banker) and starred on Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs....
...Samir Desai , Funding Circle Successful teams, in sport, business, politics or elsewhere, are not reliant on a single person....
...Photographs: Daniel Zuchnik; Marc Piasecki/GC Images/Getty Images; Samir Hussein/WireImage; Kirstin Sinclair/Getty Images; Jacopo Raule/GC Images...
...Founded by Samir Desai, James Meekings and Andrew Mullinger, this direct lending platform has since raised $273m to expand the business....
...Long-serving chief executive Samir Brikho is stepping down at oilfield services group Amec Foster Wheeler....
...Amec shares have returned a modest 47 per cent via dividends since Mr Brikho took over in 2006, according to S&P CIQ....
...Sales growth is meanwhile set to slow, according to S&P CIQ estimates. It seems Sir Stelios sees easyJet maturing faster, or at least growing more slowly, than Dame Carolyn does....
...Long-standing CEO Samir Brikho was nudged out in January following a deterioration in trading. Mr Lewis, an ex-Halliburton guy with dual UK/US citizenship, will get a £775,000 salary....
...Robert Swannell, M&S And why not connect the promised industrial strategy with a joined-up people and migration strategy?...
...Samir Desai, Funding Circle Staff representatives on boards is aimed at tackling a lack of transparency within business....
...Robert Swannell, M&S The LSE has been transformed out of all recognition in my business career....
...Robert Swannell, M&S The full implications of this decision are unknowable. The pundits and markets were wrong yesterday, they will no doubt be wrong again....
...Samir Desai, Funding Circle Marketplace lending or peer-to-peer lending companies such as Funding Circle or Lending Club, which connect investors and borrowers directly, do not pose a systemic risk as they...
...Samir Desai, Funding Circle Given the vast and ever-changing nature of cyber threats, security needs to be tackled collectively....
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