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According to Barry Humphries, the worst insult ever printed about him appeared in the Financial Times. I was the author. It was a Lunch with the FT from 2011 in which I mentioned the Australian comedian’s “dyed dark hair”. In an otherwise kindly phrased email afterwards, the creator of Dame Edna Everage revealed that “amazingly”, at the age of 77, his hair wasn’t dyed. “So,” he concluded, “you have managed to write the most offensive thing that I have ever read about myself.”Coming from the maestro of offence, this was perhaps a backhanded compliment. Humphries, who has died in Sydney…
A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. The 2024 Republican presidential primary is not fully underway as yet and already we are in the food fight phase. A super PAC supporting former President Donald Trump tried to smear Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis with pudding, seizing on a report, which the governor denies, about his eating habits to make a point about Social Security and Medicare. The ad itself is gross. And it drew a super PAC supporting DeSantis off the sidelines to air an ad…
This past week, China posted first-quarter gross-domestic-product growth of 4.5%, up from the prior quarter’s 2.9%, as retail sales surged at the fastest pace in two years and home sales in major cities rose. Analysts expect the recovery to continue through the second quarter, supporting Chinese stocks. The iShares MSCI China exchange-traded fund is up 5% year to date. But some doubt a longer-term consumer-fueled recovery. While the wealthy can spend on luxuries, most consumers aren’t buying big-ticket items like travel or cars, says Shehzad Qazi, managing director at China Beige Book. Qazi says consumer spending has never sustainably driven…
By Mauro Orru Lockheed Martin Corp. and Rheinmetall AG agreed to explore joint opportunities in research, development and production aimed at providing Germany with a rocket artillery system. German defense company Rheinmetall said Friday that it has entered into a memorandum of understanding with Lockheed Martin to collaborate on the system…. Read the full article here
2/2 © Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A Tesla Model 3 vehicle drives on autopilot along the 405 highway in Westminster, California, U.S., March 16, 2022. REUTERS/Mike Blake 2/2 By Abhirup Roy, Dan Levine and Hyunjoo Jin LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -A California state court jury on Friday handed Tesla (NASDAQ:) Inc a sweeping win, finding the electric vehicle maker’s Autopilot feature did not fail in what appeared to be the first trial related to a crash involving the partially automated driving software. Tesla has been testing and rolling out its Autopilot and more advanced “Full Self-Driving (FSD)” system, which Chief Executive Elon…
ASHGABAT (Reuters) -Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen inaugurated a permanent embassy in the Central Asian nation of Turkmenistan on Thursday, establishing his country’s closest diplomatic presence to Iran, as Israel seeks to strengthen ties to its arch-foe’s neighbours. Although the countries established diplomatic relations 30 years ago, there had only been a temporary Israeli mission in Ashgabat and predominantly Muslim Turkmenistan still has no embassy in Israel. “I came to open an Israeli embassy 17 kilometres from the border with Iran, and to hold a series of meetings with the president and other officials,” Cohen tweeted on Thursday. In English…
By David Milliken LONDON (Reuters) -The Bank of England needs to focus on tightening monetary policy sufficiently to control inflation, and ensuring that no “inflationary mentality” develops, Bank of England Deputy Governor Dave Ramsden said in an interview published on Friday. “When I look at where inflation is and where it needs to get to, I’m more focused on making sure that (we) stay the course in terms of the monetary policy decisions needed to get inflation back to target,” Ramsden said in an interview which will appear in Saturday’s edition of The Times. “(High inflation) is a bigger risk…
With the first quarter behind us, now is a good time to ask ourselves if stocks—and especially 8%+ yielding closed-end funds (CEFs)—are getting just a little ahead of themselves. Let’s start with stocks, then we’ll get granular, looking at how CEFs (which usually lag stocks by a few weeks) are setting up as we move deeper into Q2. One glance at the CNN Fear and Greed index and you could be forgiven for thinking things are getting a bit too hot out there. This indicator— a useful indicator of investor sentiment—was pegged at extreme fear for most of 2022, so…
It seemed like a good idea at the time. Exciting, actually. I could take a ride in what will soon be America’s last gasoline-powered muscle car with the woman who’s in charge of getting it into production and onto the street. But we were in New York City, it was four in the afternoon and I should have known better. Laurie Transou recently took over as Lead Program Engineer for the Ford Mustang. She’s in charge of the final adjustments and production roll-out of the new 2024 Mustang. As with every Mustang for the past 59 years, this new one…
