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...Schonfeld began life as a family office in 1988 with $400,000 that its eponymous founder Steven Schonfeld earned working as a stockbroker....
...Seasonable forecasts indicated that the coming June, July and August in Europe were also “more likely than not to be warmer than average for temperatures”....
...He was unanimously re-elected to a new five-year term in August 2020....
...Ocean temperatures around the world in February hit more than 21C, a record high for any month, breaking a record set last August....
...It was the second-hottest sea surface temperature recorded for any month ever, with only August 2023 surpassing it at 20.98C....
...Data visualisation by Steven Bernard...
...The period of June to August this year was the hottest on record with an average temperature of 16.77 degrees, 0.66 degrees higher than the 1990-2020 average, the Copernicus Climate Change Service reported...
...On Thursday, former Treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin said he was putting together a consortium to make a bid for the platform, although he did not provide details on how he would finance the transaction...
...But the chancellor shied away from increasing alcohol duty in order to help the ailing pub sector, instead extending a tax freeze, initially planned to run until August this year, through to February 2025...
...Parrington said because wildfires in boreal regions peak in early August, the total would likely continue to rise....
...That August day figures prominently in the book. “I was an intern at the state department,” says Goodwin. “I felt that sense of belonging to something larger than myself for the first time....
...Looking ahead, researchers said the wavy jet stream pattern was expected to continue into August, although it could shift pattern or location, which would alter which regions are affected by heat domes and...
...The previous record was set on August 14, 2016. The University of Maine’s Climate Reanalyzer tool uses satellite data and computer simulations to offer a real-time snapshot of global temperatures....
...Minimum wage rises would “hugely impact” the profitability of venues, said Steven Alton, chief executive of the British Institute of Innkeeping, an industry body representing independent pubs....
...In the UK confectionery prices rose by 15 per cent in the year to June, while in the US candy prices jumped 9.4 per cent in the year to August. Despite this, sales have proved resilient....
...On August 23, Cummings suggested to his boss that he was “happy to have useless fuckpigs” in the cabinet....
...In August 1993, Kurt Cobain met Los Angeles Times journalist Robert Hilburn wearing a short dress over flannel long johns. “Wearing a dress shows I can be as feminine as I want,” he told Hilburn....
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...The early data helped Compass raise $285mn in a private placement of its shares last August from mainstream biotech funds including $10bn fund RA Capital and Surveyor Capital, an equities business owned...
...According to a report by the Cryospheric Commission of the Swiss Academy of Sciences: “The ice melt in July and August alone would have provided enough water to fill all the reservoirs in the Swiss Alps...
...Rachel Stevens and Hannah Spearritt were two of the original members of which pop group? Click here for the answers...
...Research released by the San Francisco Fed in August put the total amount accumulated above trend at $2.1tn, with $1.9tn of that drawn down since savings fell below trend last year: Authors Hamza Abdelrahman...
...That August, in the midst of recalling life with his parents, Spielberg was orphaned. His father, Arnold, died at 103. Work continued....
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