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...Sir Iain Duncan Smith, the former Tory leader, told the Financial Times that the recent postponement of Prince Mohammed’s visit was a “snub”....
...But one of Europe’s biggest ever bank M&A deals was sealed at an IIEB meeting at the Brussels Hilton in 1997....
...The £250mn asking price would make it the most expensive residence ever sold in London if a deal is secured....
...However, even more interesting (and counter-intuitive) is Rogoff et al’s failure to find a statistical correlation between real rates and fundamental economic trends....
...Designs for continuing and returning productions of the long-playing classics – Miss Saigon, Les Mis et al – are widely available, but discerning fans will be able to distinguish between a Cats T-shirt from...
...They followed the Pinault family of Ch Latour et al, who, in 2013, bought what is now called The Eisele Vineyard from the Araujos, and were so confident of their savoir-faire that they didn’t even impose...
...“We have language on fossil fuels in our final agreement for the first time ever,” said Sultan al-Jaber, COP28 president and head of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, as he bought down the gavel on the...
...Or the £450,000 fine slapped on a JPMorgan banker in 2014 for sending two emails with potentially inside information, even though no one ever traded on the information....
...Exclusive: An Indian billionaire will pay £138mn in London’s most expensive home sale this year and the UK capital’s second most expensive home ever sold....
...As Wachowiak et al correctly note, the recent pressures militating in favour of greater cooperation (Ukraine, a second Trump presidency, fiscal constraints), “have not, to date, proven sufficient to overcome...
...A diet of Ohm’s law, Krebs cycles and reaction kinetics, whose relevance is hard to justify, not surprisingly kills any budding enthusiasm....
...Crédit Agricole bestowed ever grander titles on Crastes....
...David Boies, the litigator who represented Al Gore in the Supreme Court in the fight over the result of the 2000 presidential election, and who has donated to several Democrats, including President Joe Biden...
...Additional reporting by Mai Khaled in Gaza and Alan Smith in London...
...Still, the study by Subramanian et al should remind us why we care about globalisation....
...More than any other visual art form, photography is rooted in processes of social change; from now on the V&A will be able to show how it evolves to mirror the world in ever more complex ways....
...If you owned rate-sensitive, high-risk stocks yesterday you have Unhedged’s permission to sell and take the rest of the year off (Carvana, Zillow, SoFi, et al rose 10 per cent or more)....
...Robert Jenrick, a former cabinet minister, led the opposition in the House of Commons, with Sir Iain Duncan Smith, a former Tory leader, adding his voice to those claiming it would be “bizarre” to have “...
...The group of MPs includes the former Tory leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith, Alicia Kearns, chair of the foreign affairs select committee, Robert Courts, chair of the Commons defence committee, and former minister...
...In a recent letter to investors, Smith noted that the new flagship fund is on track to be the “largest pool of capital” it has ever raised. Its previous flagship fund raised $16bn in 2018....
...Another curated by Als in 2015 saw Paul’s seascapes and portraits give life to the story of Desdemona....
...June 20 to September 8; further information and tickets here ‘Naomi’, V&A South Kensington An ode to the life and work of supermodel Naomi Campbell....
...The talks were held this year between Lazard, led by outgoing chief executive Ken Jacobs, and ADQ, led by Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed al-Nahyan, the fund’s chair and Abu Dhabi’s powerful national security adviser...
...COP28 president Sultan al-Jaber is also the boss of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company....
...It is the first ever visit to the Communist country by a sitting or retired Taiwanese president....
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