Hints and tips:
...Save the date Speculation about a May election won’t go away....
...“The spaces just aren’t going to be there for them — it’s heartbreaking.”...
...John Wickham, press and media officer of the volunteer-run British UFO Research Association, groaned when I asked if this had been the case....
...Of course, one might argue that, if it ain’t broke don’t fix it. But the more money creation is tied to bank debt, the more broke and unstable it is....
...She doesn’t let a precarious financial position lead her to make the mistake of marrying Mr Collins....
...interesting new wave of younger producers is trying to make wines that are serious, well-priced competitors to red burgundy, but the wines I really cherish are fresher, lighter, fruitier examples that don’t...
...Pemberton and her fellow vocalists — Sandra Francis, Beverley Robinson, Shereece Storrod and Celia Wickham-Anderson — made for a seamlessly polyphonic unit....
...HSBC can’t raise new capital through the stock connect. It can offer up only shares that are already listed in London. The same rules don’t apply for the Chinese companies that plan to use the link....
...“The question farmers are asking is, why Fonterra didn’t learn any lessons about owning a minority stake in a Chinese business after Sanlu?” says Ms Guiney....
...I am also reading The Inheritance of Rome by Chris Wickham. This is about Europe between 400 and 1000AD. It feels very relevant today — a good book to read after the Brexit vote....
...He was, Austen joked, “[t]he first soldier I ever sighed for”....
...Aiming for sensible choices wouldn’t stifle fancy, of course, and 19th-century literature is full of it. Austen amply depicts the seductive charm of the reprobate George Wickham in Pride and Prejudice....
...Elizabeth is now a 38-year-old freelance journalist for Mascara magazine, involved in a desultory affair with the faithless (and married) Jasper Wick, aka Mr Wickham....
...There hadn’t been such excitement, it was said, since VE Day. To my recollection, Greek yoghurt — strained to remove the whey — didn’t come in till the 1980s....
...Biologics Dr John Burt Chief Executive, Abzena Dr Julian Gilbert Chief Executive, Acacia Pharma Professor Sir John Tooke President, Academy of Medical Sciences Sean Kelly Chief Executive, Action for A-T...
...“What you can’t avoid is currency. If you move into challenging currency conditions you have to translate that,” he said....
...They don’t trust businesspeople; they don’t trust their motives; they don’t trust their intentions.”...
...“Volumes are still going down but not at such alarming rates,” says Chris Wickham, analyst at Oriel Securities....
...We want to make sure we don’t erode our information ratio,” Mr Wickham said of the decision to soft close the HSBC fund....
...I don’t see Japan Tobacco among those names,” he said. That might prompt the Japanese group to make a big acquisition, he added....
...But he doesn’t dabble in hot-button politics. Neither, explicitly, does the BBA....
...“When the government said it wasn’t ready to make a decision on standardised packaging of cigarettes the tobacco industry thought it had killed it stone dead,” said Deborah Arnott, chief executive of Action...
...“Everybody has a different skill set, you can’t have one person with all those skill sets,” says Scott Magnesen, a managing director and financial adviser at Morgan Stanley Wealth Management in Oak Brook...
...The historical context is there for all to see but because we don’t share it we tend not to notice it....
...“Companies have done what investors want them to,” says Chris Wickham, an analyst at Oriel Securities....
International Edition