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...June 8 to September 8; further information and tickets here Performance ‘Così fan tutte’, Palais Garnier Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s version of the Mozart comedy hovers somewhere between traditional...
...Artists Teresa Kutala Firmino and Blessing Ngobeni are a rising South African art-world power duo....
...Born on July 27 1930, Shirley Vivien Teresa Brittain, later Baroness Williams of Crosby, had leftwing credentials from birth....
...Five Soldiers and MK Ultra Rosie Kay shows her range in this pair of hits....
...Majority owner Khoo Kay Peng said: Trading conditions have been challenging for the year ended 30 June 2017....
...For Bacardi, the Santa Teresa sales deal is a doubling down, so to speak, on the upper end of the rum market, after it launched its own, small, selection of premium rums....
...Teresa May's government has given absolutely no sign of backing down on that....
...When I asked Johns Vickers and Kay at the conference what’s to be done about all this, they—not typically taciturn—both demurred....
...Other readables Patrick Jenkins rightly wonders whether the whole idea of deposit insurance is outdated. The excellent John Kay takes on manufacturing fetishism....
...patrick.jenkins@ft.com...
...by Richard Milne• Banking’s jobs abyss by FT reporters • Democratising finance: how tech improves access by Patrick Jenkins and Tom Braithwaite• ICYMI: The brew prince by John Paul Rathbone and Andres Schipani...
...Perhaps Mr Jenkins really has disbanded the department of tax fiddles, as he claims, but as John Kay gloomily put it in the programme: “It’s not archbishops who tell you they’re honest, it’s bankers.”...
...(Financial Times) COMMENT etc Wolf on a post-crisis world (Financial Times) Kay on why Gates is wrong, basically (Financial Times) China’s biggest money-market fund has cut its holdings of corporate...
...Entertainers include Penelope Keith, who becomes a dame; Michael Crawford, who is made a CBE, and singer Katherine Jenkins, with an OBE....
...But Campbell is a superb biographer and he makes Jenkins a fascinating and emblematic figure....
...“There had been a lot of speculation that they might go the same way as UBS,” says Teresa Nielsen, an analyst at Vontobel. “But this is a sign that they are going the opposite way.”...
...“They have basically put all their low-risk businesses . . . together, and then put their more high-risk investment banking operations separately,” said Teresa Nielsen, an analyst at Vontobel....
...My colleague John Kay this week extended the law to state that if you set targets, then hitting them will become more important than doing the job....
...on business that economist John Kay is due to publish next month....
...The US bank now has 30 European clients, with a further nine in the process of signing up, compared with its original target of 25 by the end of 2012, and a potential client base of about 60, Teresa Heitsenrether...
...For a different perspective, readers should turn to John Kay, our resident wit....
...Robert Jenkins, a member of the financial policy committee of the Bank of England, puts it well: “Return on equity is the wrong target....
...John Kay: The beauty is in the data Last week, Alan Greenspan described the increase in the share of the financial services sector in GDP around the world....
...John Kay: We must press on with breaking up the banks When Lehman Brothers collapsed two years ago, the demise of investment banking seemed only a few days away — and yet two years later, they’re back on...
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