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...With reporting by Owen Walker in London...
...Shares in Hermès rose 5.1 per cent, helping the company overtake L’Oréal to become the second most valuable firm in France’s blue-chip Cac 40 index....
...(Alphaville believes that using L’Oréal as an O is cheating, even if it makes your acronym look nicer.)...
...Christine Lagarde warned that interest rate cuts were unlikely to come within “the next couple of quarters”.London’s benchmark FTSE 100 dropped 1.3 per cent, pulled lower by a 12 per cent decline for Johnnie Walker...
...This was inspired by the performances of the experimental theatre group Taiwan Walker. “It’s all from my memories,” he says....
...All are fired up to white heat in a well-played performance of irresistible, headlong energy from Stephanie Childress and the Glyndebourne Sinfonia....
...“It is a huge job [Khan] has ahead of him, and there is no guarantee he will succeed,” Johann Scholtz, banking analyst at Morningstar, told the FT’s Owen Walker. The stakes are high....
...In the restaurant is Justin Cogley, who won Best New Chef laurels from Food & Wine, American’s culinary bible, for his delicious work at Aubergine, the restaurant in Fink’s other hotel, L’Auberge Carmel....
...In the Fourth of July scene, the arrangement of young bodies on the riverbank soon gels into a mash-up of Manet’s “Déjeuner sur l’herbe” and Seurat’s “Île de la Grande Jatte”....
...Among his highlights for next week are Design Miami, which opens its first edition in the French capital (October 18-22, L’hôtel de Maisons)....
...“Susan is a master networker, organiser and connector – this is her superpower,” says Darren Walker, president of the Ford Foundation....
...This sordid affair closed a chapter on Monday, the FT’s Joseph Cotterill and Owen Walker report, after UBS settled with Mozambique....
...(The FT’s Owen Walker live tweeted the event.) CS’s shares were once nearly SFr80 each, Daniel Engler, one shareholder noted. “The price of a chateaubriand.”...
...Things I enjoyed this week Laura Noonan and Owen Walker wrote an engaging FT Magazine piece on UBS chair Colm Kelleher....
...Ronnie Walker et al. write (our emphasis): — We see two main channels through which a lower response rate can impact the JOLTS job openings statistics....
...Additional reporting by Tom Wilson, Owen Walker and Peter Campbell...
...Everywhere Grant’s style is visible — simplified forms, flat planes, bold colours — whether in two statuesque naked women holding a trompe l’oeil mirror above the fireplace or an acrobat on a door panel...
...Luke Walker, the designer and founder of fashion label LEJ, says he grew a moustache as soon as he could, although he can’t recall what prompted it....
...Meanwhile, Lasry’s compositions lure the listener with tantalising rhythms and an ingenious synthesis of musical styles infused with ’70s pop, memories of cinematic scores and echoes of Scott Walker....
...“We are busy all the time,” says manager Nathan Walker-Unwin. “The demand for this kind of place is amazing.”...
...“The indie brands are constantly taking risks and starting trends,” said Stephanie Wissink, an analyst at Jefferies....
...Enel seeks to slash debt with €21bn asset sale (FT) Exonerated trader sues Deutsche Bank over Libor rigging allegations (FT) Tiger Global’s now-worthless FTX bet had Bain’s due diligence (Bloomberg) L&...
...Stephanie Merritt’s Storm (HarperCollins, £14.99) finds the always reliable novelist (who also writes as SJ Parris) en pleine forme....
...For walkers like me, it is irresistible. Hardly anyone I know has ever visited....
...for actuaries in the LDI pensions debacle / From Stephanie Hawthorne, Former Editor of Pensions World (1989-2017), London SM5, UK Give last word to Feynman / From John Rogan, Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan...
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