WILLIAM LATHAN SMITH

April 24, 2024

ExplainerMaritime accidents and safety

The Baltimore bridge disaster: what happened and who will pay?

Collapse will cause economic damage and bring new focus on quality of US infrastructure

March 27, 2024

FT Live

The Global Boardroom: 8th Edition

FT journalists in conversation with leaders in business and government

Gardens

Beauty and the balcony: horticulture is not just for house dwellers

...I gave it a go,” says Williams. “And a lot of the stuff I bought died.” Undeterred, Williams, who rents an 18th-floor flat in Manchester city centre with a 6-metre-long balcony, persevered....

April 17, 2024

News updates from March 27: Yen hits 34-year low; Nobel winner Daniel Kahneman dies

Carmakers and insurers brace for Baltimore bridge collapse fallout

March 27, 2024

Maritime accidents and safety

Biden administration warns of lengthy disruption at Baltimore port

Carmakers and insurers braced for fallout after bridge collapse shuts critical US trade hub

March 28, 2024

The Big Read

The uninsurable world: what climate change is costing homeowners

Rising premiums are a de facto ‘carbon price’ on consumers as extreme weather events become more frequent

February 13, 2024

FT Live

Global Insurance Summit

Strengthening resilience, capital and innovation as systemic risks evolve

News updates from December 15: Rudy Giuliani ordered to pay $148mn to 2020 election workers, Israel mistakenly kills three hostages in Gaza

Fed’s John Williams says talk of imminent rate cut is ‘premature’

...“We aren’t really talking about rate cuts right now,” Williams said in an interview with CNBC on Friday....

December 15, 2023

Tees Valley Combined Authority

Profits triple at Teesworks project after transfer to private developers

Net profits hit £54mn in year to March 2023 at controversial redevelopment of UK’s largest brownfield site

January 8, 2024

UK politics

Senior Tory MP admits releasing colleagues’ numbers to dating app contact

...Iain Duncan Smith, a former Conservative leader, said this week that the approaches were an “assault on parliamentary democracy”....

April 4, 2024

Prudential PLC

Prudential chief says China momentum returning after joint venture sales dive

...Additional reporting by William Sandlund in Hong Kong...

March 20, 2024

HTSI

10 UK gardens to visit this bank holiday weekend

...nationaltrust.org.uk The Hepworth Wakefield, Yorkshire Museum gardens have proliferated recently (a subject at the centre of a Garden Museum conference this coming summer) and this one, designed by Tom Stuart-Smith...

March 27, 2024

Travel

My night in the Red Lady’s cave

...The cave’s recorded history begins in earnest two centuries ago, with the arrival of Reverend William Buckland....

March 16, 2024

Thames Water

Thames Water lenders face losses of up to 40% in event of nationalisation

...William Wade, a credit analyst at JPMorgan, warned earlier this month that haircuts of 15-25 per cent on the ringfenced debt were now a “plausible” outcome that investors should be wary of....

April 18, 2024

FT SeriesBritain’s infrastructure impasse

Birmingham pays the price for UK’s infrastructure gap

...Data visualisation by Alan Smith...

January 25, 2024

FirstFT

FirstFT: Apple abandons secretive electric vehicle project

...Monetary policy: Susan Collins, president of the Federal Reserve’s Boston branch, John Williams, president of the New York Fed, and Raphael Bostic, President of the Atlanta Fed, will speak at public events...

February 28, 2024

FT Live

Global Private Banking Awards 2024

Celebrating excellence in wealth management

News updates from September 29: BP’s top US executive to leave, Eurozone inflation falls

Fed’s Williams expects 2.5% inflation in 2024

...In prepared remarks on Friday, John Williams, a permanent voter on the Federal Open Market Committee and a close ally of chair Jay Powell, struck an optimistic tone about the outlook for inflation and the...

September 29, 2023

Maritime accidents and safety

Search suspended for missing people in Baltimore bridge collapse

...Additional reporting by David Sheppard, Michael Peel and Ian Smith in London...

March 27, 2024

European equities

In charts: why European stock markets are in crisis

...“Capital markets is on the political agenda in pretty much every finance ministry across Europe,” said William Wright, founder of markets think-tank New Financial....

March 3, 2024

News updates from January 4: US air strike kills Iran-backed militia commander, German inflation rises to 3.8%

Japanese manufacturing activity shrinks on lower demand

...“Demand was . . . lower from key export clients based in China, Europe and North America, and from important sectors like electronics,” said Paul Smith, economics director at S&P Global Market Intelligence...

January 4, 2024

FirstFT

FirstFT: China is on cusp of next-generation chip production

...s big read Harvey Schwartz, a former Goldman Sachs banker who took the helm of the private equity firm a year ago, after a fumbled succession from co-founders David Rubenstein and Daniel D’Aniello and William...

February 6, 2024

US interest rates

Top Fed officials try to damp expectations of imminent rate cuts

...And you had some evidence for that from Williams today,” he said. “We think a cut is more likely in late spring or early summer....

December 15, 2023

Gilts

Pension funds turn to credit to bolster LDI trades

...Phil Smith, head of Emea LDI research at BlackRock, said: “This is about broadening out the pool of assets that can be used as collateral, increasing that resilience and trying to avoid losses from having...

March 2, 2024

The Art of FashionThe Art of Fashion: the Individuality issue

The go-to guys for rare 1990s fashion

...Blyth and Smith met while working at William Vintage in London....

March 26, 2024

FirstFT

FirstFT: Boeing chief admits ‘our mistake’ after 737 Max mishap

...Monetary policy: New York Federal Reserve president John Williams will speak about the 2024 economic outlook in the New York City suburb of White Plains....

January 10, 2024

Transcript

Transcript: Who’s behind the Tory plots?

...William Wallis Yeah....

January 26, 2024

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