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...And thanks to my splendid colleague Claire Jones for standing in on Free Lunch last week with an excellent piece on why consumer spending is holding up despite rising interest rates....
...US, president Joe Biden welcomes his Philippine counterpart Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr for a bilateral meeting at the White House....
...Senior Citigroup dealmaker Alison Harding-Jones is set to depart at the end of next month....
...This week it is the turn of the Philippines, where, in a “you could not make this up” moment, the son of former dictator Ferdinand Marcos, Ferdinand Jr, leads the race to be president, promising to restore...
...“A more diverse group could mitigate some of the damage caused by the hubris of earlier generations,” writes Claire Jones. 2....
...His 1994 debut album Illmatic painted a picture of New York that was just as vivid and visceral as those of authors such as Paul Auster or Hubert Selby Jr, and was quickly acclaimed as a masterpiece....
...One good read I keep thinking about last week’s excellent piece in the New York Times about Bank of America honcho Thomas Montag....
...“Vernon E Jordan Jr passed away peacefully last evening surrounded by loved ones. We appreciate all of the outpouring of love and affection,” his daughter Vickee Jordan said in a statement....
...cuts announced by US companies have reduced the total dividends expected from members of the S&P 500 this year by almost $10bn, or 1.9 per cent, said Howard Silverblatt, senior index analyst for S&P Dow Jones...
...Since taking over Swatch from his father in 2003, Nick Hayek Jr had viewed the situation as increasingly problematic, says Mr Chauvet....
...This would include a certain allowance for sovereign debt, which would be exempt of the capital, requirements irrespective of the rating (e.g. up to a concentration of 33% of the Tier 1 capital of the individual...
...“Investors have to think about the E&P subsector like a portfolio of high-yield junk bonds,” he said....
...Designed by G.E. Street (architect of London’s Royal Courts of Justice) in 1867, it is a robust gothic heap which has recently been remade by architects Dow Jones....
...1976; John deButts, chairman, AT&T, New York, May 5 1976; César Chávez, organiser, United Farm Workers, Keene, California, June 27 1976; Charles Shaffer, attorney, New York, July 9 1976; Herbert J Miller Jr...
...Alibaba, the e-commerce giant, has seen revenue growth slow sharply in the third quarter. It reported revenue for the year to March 2018 of $39.9 billion....
...The appointment of Nick Jones from Asda could see this strategy change but Mr Porter is staying around for the transition in September....
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...Subscribe to FT Life on YouTube for the latest FT Weekend videos Letter in response to this article: When Ruskin was derided as an ‘unthinkable alien’ / From Joel E Turner, Havertown, PA, US...
...“Visiting Asmara is an extraordinary journey through time,” says Will Jones of Journeys by Design....
...Likewise, consultancy Jones Lang LaSalle says that retailers are “adapting and re-evaluating” their physical retailing space in response to ecommerce pressures....
...“I felt quite ill, bit of a gut ache, and for the first time in my life I went to A&E. They said ‘it’s gastroenteritis’, although they didn’t do many tests, and you don’t like to make a fuss....
...For market updates and comment follow us on Twitter @FTMarkets Additional reporting by Thomas Hale in London and Edward White in Taipei...
...Architects, only one woman was present: 26-year-old Beatrix Jones....
...Earlier this year, Bonhams, the auctioneer, sold an original 1963 Jaguar E-Type Lightweight Competition for $7.4m, making it the most valuable E-Type to sell at auction....
...Bernard Cazeneuve, France’s interior minister, will meet his German counterpart Thomas de Maizière in Paris on Tuesday to discuss new measures that would limit the use of encrypted communications across...
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