Hints and tips:
Related Special Reports
...The disposals flattered 2023’s results but have raised questions over future sources of growth....
...A slump in EV sales in Europe last month, and troubles at sector poster child Tesla, only ups the ante....
...The Sun first reported a family’s claims that their child was paid tens of thousands of pounds for explicit photos over three years. A lawyer for the person last year disputed The Sun’s reporting....
...Its shares collapsed this week after an Illinois court awarded $60mn in damages to a mother whose child died after consuming Enfamil baby formula....
...The proportion of parents who said they were more likely to allow their child to sign up for a social media profile, even if they were below the minimum age limit, rose from 25 per cent a year ago to 30...
...Xóchitl Gálvez, the main opposition candidate, tried to rattle Sheinbaum by confronting her with audience members, including a mother whose child has cancer amid the country’s medicine shortages, and calling...
...The US pharmaceutical company — whose shares are up 130 per cent over the past year and is now a top-10 S&P 500 stock — chose the week of the Oscars to launch an advert called “Big Night”....
...The German conglomerate has become a poster child for the pitfalls of mergers and acquisitions, still nursing a giant hangover from its disastrous $63bn takeover of Monsanto agreed in 2016....
...You can argue about how big the UK market valuation discount really is, compared with the crude price-earnings basis that values the S&P 500 at double the FTSE 100....
...Vanke still has an investment-grade rating at S&P and Fitch, the latter of which downgraded it in October, citing weak sales....
...Scenes with the society artist Thomas Lawrence and with a fencing master in Dublin do have a purpose but outstay their welcome. If the play were honed more, its points might be more forceful....
...If you think the title Red Island suggests an adventure yarn, perhaps with a dash of Tintin, you’re not far off — except that the film’s child protagonist Thomas (Charlie Vauselle) identifies not with the...
...China, where gambling is banned, ranks among one of Bet365’s biggest markets, the people added....
...Miley Cyrus had the longest stretch at the top of the charts — with her song “Flowers” remaining at number one for 10 weeks — but four of 2023’s five biggest tracks and seven of the year’s top 10 songs were...
...Thomas Roulet, at the Cambridge Judge Business School, has written a book on “negative social evaluations”, or what you and I might call crummy corporate reputations....
...Alex Mahon, chief executive of Channel 4, said that “in-house production may well offer good long-term support for Channel 4’s financial sustainability, but it would never alter Channel 4’s fundamental belief...
...Coates also narrowly trumps the best-paid executives in the US S&P 500, where Blackstone’s Stephen Schwarzman earned $253mn last year (he separately received about $1bn in dividends) and Alphabet’s Sundar...
...As a child growing up there, I was taught about this greatest of founding fathers and the home he built, Monticello, with religious reverence....
...“There are inconsistencies in the data set that was just released,” noted Louis Kuijs, head of Asia economics at S&P and a former World Bank economist in China....
...For their third album they are joined by pianist Thomas Bartlett as a producer, who adds minimal piano — a chord here to sharpen a guitar phrase or a single note that somehow accentuates a silence....
...“What used to take us three weeks can take us three hours and clients currently pay on the time taken, not the output,” says S4’s Sorrell....
...“Deposit rates cut[s] will immediately lower banks’ pressure in making some profit,” said Dan Wang, chief economist at Hang Seng Bank China....
...With just 40mn outbound trips in the first half of 2023, Chinese tourism has yet to rebound to near the level of 2019’s 155mn trips....
...Still, Slow Horses remains an unbridled pleasure thanks to the relish with which eminent actors such as Kristin Scott Thomas (as MI5’s steely deputy Diana Taverner) and Oldman commit to a sweary, sweaty...
International Edition