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...From £105, jeakeshouse.com BS Hôtel de l’Abbaye, Paris This Saint-Germain-des-Prés stalwart is on the larger side of homely – 43 rooms and counting – but the quiet setting makes up for it....
...Virtuous Bankers: A Day in the Life of the Eighteenth-Century Bank of England by Anne L Murphy (Princeton) The story of how the 18th-century Bank of England became — in the words of Adam Smith — “a great...
...Dall-E is spelled D-A-L-L dash E. It’s a portmanteau of Wall-E, the Pixar robot, and Salvador Dali. And this software is part of a new trend in digital technology called AI-generated art....
...Oh well. 10) Manifold Markets Another Future Fund recipient, Manifold Markets is, per one description, a “play money prediction market with user-created questions”....
...“You could really feel that it was a different demography from 20 years before . . . it’s young families, so education is much more important.”...
...Dude ranches In the Rockies west of Denver, the C Lazy U ranch has been welcoming visitors for a taste of cowboy life since the 1920s....
...This deep dive by the FT’s Ian Smith shows that Marsh played other roles, too....
...“I saw the kimono exhibition at London’s V&A before things closed down – I often go there for inspiration,” she says....
...Smith & Nephew goes up to “overweight” at Morgan Stanley. A V-shaped recovery in kneecaps isn’t in the price, they say....
...If the economic trajectory does indeed look more like an “L” than a “V” or “U”, portfolios will need to combine recovery stocks with cash and lower-risk bonds as well....
...As a result, l/s equity funds, one of the most popular strategies in the hedge fund universe, have run into some trouble. Finding companies to short in the longest bull market ever has been difficult....
...(FT) Ritz buyer revealed The unnamed Qatari investor who agreed to buy London’s Ritz Hotel from the billionaire Barclay family last month has been revealed as the brother-in-law of the Gulf state’s ruler...
...(FT) ‘Muppets v Sharks’ Small-time retail investors who ploughed money into the oil market thinking they’d spotted an opportunity to make money as prices crashed were left holding the bag, so to speak,...
...Rate relief drops away in FY22 so the recovery profile, in EPS at least, is not V-shaped....
...Against the general trend, yesterday Ferrari confidently guided to a V-shaped recovery in its P&L from H2/20....
...The widely anticipated downsizing of NatWest markets will incur a restructuring charge of c.£0.6bn in 2020, in line with our expectations....
...distribution centres, iv) warehouse efficiencies; and v) non-strategic cost savings....
...Alstom, Outotec, Signify and Smiths all go on to the “buy” list while Legrand and Spectris go down to “underperform”....
...I blurt something counter-intuitive about the humanities (generalism being more time-proof than coding), but later I succumb to l’esprit de l’escalier....
...Doing so would cause hardship for millions of families, and would also contract the economy as low income families cut back on spending....
...“The C-word in America is like the third rail in the subway. Here it’s different. Look, I can’t even say it,” he laughs at his coyness. (He eventually forces himself to say it.)...
...Trygve Smith recommended Megève, a modest farming town where a nascent tourist trade had ended with the first world war....
...David Hollingworth, director at broker L&C Mortgages, says more borrowers are likely to focus on longer-term deals....
...“They are an ordinary family, good and decent,” says Ahmet Teker, the building’s janitor. Sergej, he said, “didn’t stand out in any way”....
...The business daily L’Echo, which broke the story with its Dutch-language sister paper De Tijd, says a computer found in the Schaerbeek flat where the bombs were constructed contained detailed information...
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