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...The V&A’s new show, Tropical Modernism, revolves around this odd confluence....
...The other crisis-hit Swiss lender Philipp Rickenbacher was installed as chief executive of Julius Baer four and a half years ago with a simple objective: play it safe....
...In Andermatt-Sedrun, another Swiss ski and golf resort in which a majority stake was bought by Vail Resorts a year ago, the number of overnight stays by North Americans quadrupled last winter....
...Around us, business meetings were in full swing with groups of (mainly) men in crisp white shirts and V-necks talking quietly over pots of coffee....
...Bruno Huggler, the head of the Crans tourism office, said that Vail’s international footprint was “an undeniable asset, notably for the North American market.”...
...SSG’s co-investors include a who’s who of American billionaires, from New York Mets owner Steve Cohen to Atlanta Falcons owner Arthur Blank....
...It is building a facility in Penang, but some US lawmakers already want to restrict American companies from collaborating on RISC-V projects....
...Meyer Burger, a Swiss solar manufacturer, announced in January it was shutting down its plant in Germany and focusing efforts to boost manufacturing in Colorado and Arizona, supported by the IRA....
...The US Steel board has now deferred to another American value: capitalism....
...I’m not here to tell you who is right and who is wrong,” said Azar, who cut his teeth in the discreet world of Swiss private banking....
...And Ayana V Jackson uses photography to build “historical allusions” of African and African-American identities....
...It was accused by Dmitry Rybolovlev, a Russian billionaire, of having helped the Swiss art dealer Yves Bouvier to overcharge him by about $1bn for works including Leonardo da Vinci’s “Salvator Mundi”....
...“That’s a sad commentary on the state of American politics. Now I know why they call this the political silly season.”...
...Coup de Chance, about a married woman (Lou de Laâge) bumping into an old school friend (Niels Schneider) and embarking on a guilt-wracked affair, is the director’s 50th feature but his first made entirely...
...The state’s luxuriant landscape attracted James, heir to a vast American railroad and timber fortune and poet-patron of Surrealist painters....
...On Monday, Swiss bank Julius Baer said it was reviewing its private debt business after revealing a €606mn exposure — its single largest — to a “European conglomerate . . . in commercial real estate and...
...Schneider added that 2022 was also a year of “post-Covid normalisation” in many of Nestlé’s markets. Price rises by the Swiss group were highest in North and Latin America, at 11.6 per cent....
...My teenage daughter thought of Jeffrey Dahmer, the American serial killer who has been recently introduced to a new generation via a Netflix drama series....
...Right now, for example, the American government is trying to implement a new wave of Basel III rules, sparking a furious backlash from Wall Street figures such as David Solomon, head of Goldman Sachs, who...
...Among the more challenging shows was Mexican artist Sebastián Solórzano Rodríguez (a 2014-15 protégé) performing his work [÷] v.0.8 : Boléro, which involved him practising 15 minutes of amplified heavy breathing...
...as American ones have....
...The global environmental protection organisation lists the American horseshoe crab as “vulnerable”....
...Now Charif Souki says he is battling Swiss bank UBS to keep a roof over his head. Souki founded Cheniere Energy, the company that invented the business of shipping chilled US shale gas overseas....
...I think a lot of people were anticipating a V-shaped recovery . . . People are now waking up the realisation that volatility is going to be normal going forward.”...
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on May 16 2023. ©2023 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
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