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...NatWest and Lloyds both reported an increase in provisions for bad debts in the third quarter....
...Robert Iati, managing director at Burton-Taylor, an industry consultancy, concurs....
...Shops, bars, hotels and warrens of alleyways cluster around a market square dotted with abandoned stalls. Here you can watch as Hecuba (Sarah Dowling) faces Agamemnon’s troops....
...Gaming What do you do after you have broken records for the bestselling PC game series of all time? If you are Will Wright, creator of SimCity and The Sims, you lie low....
...“This is like the shot heard around the world,” says Robert Eccles, a Saïd Business School professor....
...(WSJ) US-Japan meeting US defence secretary Lloyd Austin and US secretary of state Antony Blinken will hold their first in-person talks with their Japanese counterparts on Tuesday....
...The war of words between Wall Street and Elizabeth Warren heated up on Thursday as former Goldman Sachs chief executive Lloyd Blankfein took aim at the Democratic presidential candidate, saying that “maybe...
...Simon Roberts, J Sainsbury’s new boss, speaks in heroic tones....
...One top Wall Street banker, who supported Biden at a time when he was struggling to gain traction with voters during the Democratic party primaries, said that the chance of Elizabeth Warren doing so, after...
...Lloyd Blankfein has not had far to travel....
...If readers have any thoughts, do email our reporters Rob and Cynthia at robert.smith@ft.com and cynthia.omurchu@ft.com....
...Unlike his predecessor Lloyd Blankfein, Solomon has managed to escape a war of words with Warren, but he is facing other pressures this year....
...Warren Buffett: have I got news for you As one of the world’s most revered investors, there is often a perception that if Warren Buffett is invested in an industry, that must mean it’s good....
...Red meat and red wine with Lloyd Blankfein Lloyd Blankfein wants to get some things straight....
...As Edward, First Baron Thurlow remarked during the impeachment of EIC Governor Warren Hastings, “Corporations have neither bodies to be punished, nor souls to be condemned....
...During the war Churchill and Franklin D Roosevelt exchanged almost 2,000 messages, which appeared in 1984 in a superb three-volume collection edited by Warren F Kimball....
...The company has already received $45m from its insurers, and Verisk PCS, an analytics group, thinks the final total could be much higher — potentially up to $275m....
...robert.shrimsley@ft.com; Twitter: @robertshrimsley Illustration by Lucas Varela...
...’s largest PC maker....
...Comcast, the cable and broadcasting group founded by Ralph Roberts, and now run by his son, Brian, spent $2.2m on personal private jet flights during the same period....
...A staircase winds up to a warren of rooms on different floors. They are filled with Mackintosh veterans....
...Pop-up or pay, pal Sick of those pop-up ads on your PC?...
...John Nelson, chairman of Lloyd’s of London, has described membership of the EU as “vital” to the UK economy....
...Fosun, the private conglomerate run by the man dubbed “China’s Warren Buffett”, has taken a big step into the European real estate market by signing a joint venture deal with UK-based asset manager Resolution...
...But Gramm, who himself runs a hedge fund, is an engaging and critical guide to a century of US activism and activists, including Ross Perot and Warren Buffett....
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