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...Brent crude, the international benchmark, traded as high as $92 a barrel on Friday after breaking above $90/b last week for the first time since October....
...“On factory floors across the nation, our autoworkers are making cars and trucks that give American drivers a choice — a way to get from point A to point B without having to fuel up at a gas station,” said...
...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....
...According to the title of a 1961 William Burroughs novel, what kind of machine is the human body? What was the title of David Bowie’s 1973 album of cover versions?...
...Today Rachel Reeves sets out how Labour will respond — some thoughts on the politics of that below....
...It was essentially a new-sheriff-in-town Western retooled as a pumped-up B-movie — in this case, B for brawn, booze and breasts. It has now been remade in a more sophisticated variant....
...“People have the perception that Mingei is just brown pots,” says Roisin Inglesby, a curator at the William Morris Gallery in London....
...It is too soon to say a) whether the reformed bus system introduced in September will be deemed a success in the long run or b) what a sustainable funding model might look like.)...
...(Do read this excellent piece by William Wallis for much more on the latter, also featuring this alarming chart about the pressures facing local authorities.)...
...These tax policies meant that Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves could say that Labour’s various spending pledges were both a) fully funded and b) wouldn’t involve touching the politically contentious taxes,...
...Sunak quickly moved in with a plan B, but will it work? The FT’s William Wallis has been following the case. Hello, William. William WallisHello, Lucy....
...Patterson points to a pewter beaker from the 1690s engraved with wrigglework portraits of William III and Mary II that sold at Christie’s for £14,400....
...Saudi Arabia said on Tuesday it would keep its 1mn barrels a day reduction in place until the end of the year, while Russian deputy prime minister Alexander Novak said the country’s 300,000 b/d export reduction...
...I have so many style icons: Gianni Agnelli, Michael Chow, Johnny Cash, Leonard Cohen, Keanu Reeves, Johnny Depp… but Agnelli came to my mind first. He was so elegant but so original....
...Letter in response to this article: Harsh words for the PM’s foreign investor fandango / From Mark Pears, Chief Executive, The William Pears Group, London NW3, UK...
...its 1mn-barrels-a-day production cut for July into August, state media said, while Russia’s deputy prime minister Alexander Novak said Moscow would make a “voluntary” supply cut of an additional 500,000 b/...
...The Varna gold medallist Fumi Kaneko set the bar chasteningly high, partnered by an elegant and attentive William Bracewell....
...Asked if ministers were preparing a Plan B in the event that the government’s scheme to remove asylum seekers to Rwanda was struck down in the courts, Downing Street said: “We consider all options to stop...
...Additional reporting by Amanda Chu in New York and Aime Williams in Dubai...
...This would have pleased William Beveridge, who never intended that the postwar welfare state he helped design should create permanent dependency....
...There had been amazing black designers, a thousand per cent, but there hadn’t been musicians, and specifically the R&B, rap world, being able to come in and not just wear something, not just use something...
...I think, you know, the question about why he didn’t remove the whip from William Wragg immediately. Why did William Wragg have to sack himself from the Conservative party?...
...Yes, even Venezuela, which Platts believes is now producing almost 800,000 b/d....
...Chief financial officer Alan Williams said the company would seek to mitigate costs by reducing headcount....
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