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...I also have some of my favourite artwork in the kitchen: paintings by Cudelice Brazelton IV and Chase Hall, along with works on paper by Marcus Leslie Singleton and Chioma Ebinama....
...Stores such as Primark and John Lewis are reopening in England. Social distancing and heaps of redundant stock mean profitability remains a long way off....
...Job moves Tesco’s chief financial officer Alan Stewart will step down next April, just over six months after chief executive Dave Lewis departs the UK grocery retailer. More here....
...With Neiman Marcus heading the same way, it appears that the coronavirus has dealt the final blow to the behemoths of the retail world....
...The hope underpinning the strategy is to “press pause on the economy, save lives, and then press play again”, writes Marcus Walker at the Wall Street Journal....
...Marcus Evans, a partner at KPMG’s Frankfurt office, said the stress tests’ methodology did penalise banks which had suffered big losses in the past....
...requiring two-thirds of votes cast to pass, it could yet be scuppered by the large block of foreign investors, who have been encouraged to reject the merger by influential proxy advisers ISS and Glass Lewis...
...… Flash Boys: Cracking the Money Code, by Michael Lewis, Allen Lane, RRP£30/ WW Norton, RRP$27.95 Lewis touched a nerve with his book about the growth of high-frequency trading....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...POP Ziggyology , by Simon Goddard, Ebury Press, £20, 352 pages After the comeback and the V&A retrospective comes Bowie fatigue. Do we need more adulation?...
...The Elliott G-PAC computer is the size of a Welsh dresser, the Goblin Time-Spot radio alarm clock the size of a bread bin....
...Patricia Elliott creates an atmosphere of fear, suspense and adventure in Ambergate (Hodder £5.99)....
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