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...All of these companies have underperformed the FTSE 100 index. Size is one reason. Bunzl, Howdens et al are generally smaller than the household names, and smaller companies can grow faster....
...It retells the established adventures of Odin, Thor, Loki et al, alongside brand-new ones set in the present day....
...The first photographer in the 60-year history of the Pirelli calendar to shoot it three times – in 1996, 2002 and 2017 – Lindbergh has been shown in museums around the world including the V&A, Centre Pompidou...
...FT deputy editor Patrick Jenkins has argued that some of the accusations of profiteering were unfair and that undermining banks’ margins could erode their financial strength, weaken the City, and thus the...
...They could try to shoot like transformers’ connection of nuclear power stations to the grid, but it was also risky....
...But there’s something else he said that day that probably does more to explain the endurance of Benzema et al today....
...This take is less Sex and the City-style outrageous fabulosity, however, and more in line with the minimal, monochrome simplicity and silhouettes of Yohji Yamamoto, Helmut Lang et al....
...Meanwhile, El Salvador’s government is planning a volcano-fuelled bitcoin city that will also function as a tax haven....
...And there is, predictably, competition on the horizon, including the ambitious renovation of the city’s other historical landmark, the Grand Hotel et Des Palmes, which has opened with a restaurant and roof...
...In this year’s final, it’s Manchester City versus London’s Chelsea, Pep Guardiola against rival top manager Thomas Tuchel; Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the Abu Dhabi royal, against Russian-Israeli...
...“What you’re seeing is an expectation of a V-shaped recovery and that may prove to be too optimistic,” said one equity analyst....
...And, as lockdown measures are softened, the return of the likes of Gregg's, Starbucks et al to the UK FtG market will increase competition....
...Meanwhile, Rita Liu of Alipay talked about the mobile payments company’s partnership with Uefa. Obviously there was tons more that was discussed....
...What else we’re reading The People v Harvey Weinstein Only hours after Hollywood partied into the night, Harvey Weinstein hobbled up the steps to a New York City criminal court....
...Here’s a chart from a 2019 paper by Michael Rosenfeld et al. to demonstrate: Note the spike in “met in bar or restaurant” alongside the spike “met online”....
...When sages speak Here is a thumping research report from Jonathan Woetzel, Jeongmin Seong et al from the McKinsey Global Institute....
...on 400 years of opera, in partnership with London’s V&A museum....
...This was disproved by the trial of US v Zarrab et al, in which a Turkish banker and a gold trader were convicted of laundering Iranian oil and gas revenues....
...Imperium, a two-part adaptation of Robert Harris’s Cicero novels, is yet to premiere, but here are the last two of the dramas by Shakespeare et al....
...Equally exasperating: he has left on the keyboard all those stickers from Intel et al that PCs come with new. They are so disfiguring, I want to reach over and rip them off....
...Edwin Heathcote is the FT’s architecture and design critic Photographs: Richard Davis/De Havilland Aircraft Museum; V&A; Estate of Bertrand Goldberg; Musée de l’Air et de l’Espace’; HB-13583-H, Chicago...
...In the shaky mobile shoot, Mr Knight walks into his office and utters a few campaign slogans, before the camera zooms in on a poster and a jingle kicks in. Trust us, you’ll want to watch it....
...The DoJ’s intervention set up one of the biggest antitrust showdowns since it sought to block AT&T’s attempted $39bn takeover of T-Mobile USA in 2011....
...Wednesday, February 1 A displaced Syrian, who fled from the Isis-besieged city of Deir Ezzor, is pictured in a refugee camp in al-Hawl, Syria....
...As I looked around the room at Allen, Andy et al, I thought about how they fought for the cultural and political freedoms that we enjoy today....
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