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...Royal Mail’s chairman has warned its letter-delivery duty is “not economic”. The group is obliged to deliver letters Monday to Saturday at the same price across the country....
...In their detective tale, Hal joins his uncle, a travel writer, on a steam-powered royal train making a circuit through the UK....
...(FT) US threatens EU carbon tax retaliation Wilbur Ross, US commerce secretary, threatened to “react” to a planned carbon tax with punitive measures, comparing it with recent proposals to impose a digital...
...So far the company has signed one nonbinding agreement to export 2m tonnes to Vietnam, a country he visited in November with US commerce secretary Wilbur Ross....
...In London in 1941, to deliver the Royal Aeronautical Society’s 29th Wilbur Wright Memorial Lecture during the Blitz, Trippe was invited to 10 Downing Street, where, over midnight supper and whisky, he talked...
...They included substantial payments from a company co-owned by Vladimir Putin’s son-in-law to the shipping group in which Wilbur Ross, the US commerce secretary, holds a stake....
...Wilbur Ross, commerce secretary, made a request to Congress for more funds to pay for the increased workload, but he was turned down, and the department has been redeploying staff from other activities to...
...(NYT) Wilbur Ross’s phantom $2bn After examining federal financial disclosure forms Forbes magazine was intent on removing US commerce secretary Wilbur Ross from its annual billionaire list....
...Moon Hooch (woodwind players Wenzl McGowen and Mike Wilbur, and drummer James Muschler) met while attending the New School for Jazz in Greenwich Village, and labelled their primal-sounding hybrid “cave music...
...In a purge that sent shockwaves through the Middle East over the weekend, dozens of ministers, royals, officials and senior military officers were dismissed or arrested as part of a new anti-corruption campaign...
...“Seeing the whole Earth as a single entity is not new,” says Martin Rees, Britain’s astronomer royal. “But what is happening now is that we are monitoring it on a daily basis at high resolution....
...John Hourican, the former Royal Bank of Scotland executive who became Bank of Cyprus’ chief executive in 2013, said: “Underpinning the group’s momentum is a recovering Cypriot economy....
...The move is part of a workout that has made the same process at Royal Bank of Scotland, Mr Hourican’s former employer, look like a nursery picnic....
...Last November, the US private equity firm run by billionaire Wilbur Ross offloaded its remaining stake in UK challenger Virgin Money for £171.5m....
...The bank also announced that investor and vice chairman Wilbur Ross , who is expected to become commerce secretary in Donald Trump’s new administration, would keep his stake in the bank....
...Virgin Money dropped 6.4 per cent to 316.7p after pre-flotation backer Wilbur Ross sold his remaining 12 per cent shareholding at 330p a share....
...These included Wilbur Ross, the US private equity investor, who took a stake in the bank and became its vice-chairman....
...A London Stock Exchange listing has long been a goal of John Hourican, the former Royal Bank of Scotland executive who has run Bank of Cyprus since shortly after its 2013 bailout....
...Billionaire US investor Wilbur Ross, a long-time Virgin Money backer with a 12 per cent stake, says of the new contenders: “I don’t think this is a passing fancy....
...John Hourican has quit as Bank of Cyprus chief executive less than two years after the former Royal Bank of Scotland executive was parachuted in to turn round the Mediterranean lender that collapsed during...
...Last month, funds run by US billionaire Wilbur Ross and Stanhope Investments raised £240m by selling 60m shares in Virgin Money at 400p....
...John Hourican, former head of investment banking at Royal Bank of Scotland, took the job instead. Mr Ackerman spent a decade as Deutsche Bank’s chief executive until 2012....
...It also brought banking names such as Wilbur Ross and Josef Ackermann on to the shareholder register and the board. Most of all though, those depositors might hold on for a recovery....
...Mr Hourican, the former head of investment banking at Royal Bank of Scotland, said Bank of Cyprus had showed signs of “stabilising its asset quality and deposit base”....
...In July, the Mediterranean country’s biggest lender bolstered its balance sheet by selling €1bn of shares to investors including Wilbur Ross, a US private equity veteran who has built a career from buying...
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