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Here’s why the Bank of England’s hawks are getting it wrong over calls for a rate hike

Paul Hackett | Getty Images Pedestrians walk past the Bank of England in the City of London, Britain June 28, 2016. The BOE’s monetary policy committee is at its most divided over interest rates since 2011 and Haldane, previously considered to be one of the most dovish members, has now …

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‘The Sleeping Beauty’: Royalist Ballet or Harmonious Ideal?

In time, the ballet’s musical-theater classicism and celebration of pure form became an ideal for modernism. After Diaghilev, impresario of the Ballets Russes, and Stravinsky, the composer from whom he commissioned successive premieres, had done so much to transform music and dance theater with the first vanguard of radical reform …

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These charts show why one trader is betting on even more gains for Tesla

Tesla is on a tear this year, and trader Todd Gordon says the shares are about to rev up to even more record highs. The automaker hit another all-time record on Thursday, rallying amid the announcement of a possible production plant agreement with Shanghai and a Recode report that the …

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China set to host World Economic Forum meeting in Dalian

Jason Lee | Reuters China’s Premier Li Keqiang answers a question during a meeting with foreign company executives at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in China’s port city Dalian, September 9, 2015. “Technology and China — these two words actually go together now,” said Jenny Lee of GGV Capital. “It …

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Fewer and Smaller: A New Normal for London’s Summer Auctions

“The digital space is the Christie’s South Ken of the 21st century,” said Mr. Cerutti, adding that he envisaged the auction house as a global operation with fewer auction rooms and more online sales. But with more than 75 percent of clients concentrating on 20th-century and contemporary artworks, he emphasized …

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CFOs react to Trump’s management style, and it’s not pretty: Survey

Olivier Douliery-Pool | Getty Images President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House on June 12, 2017, in Washington, DC. If you had to describe President Donald Trump’s management style in one word, what would it be? That’s the question we asked the …

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Deadly London tower blaze began in a Hotpoint fridge freezer, say police

Carl Court | Getty Images Fire fighters drench the burning 24-storey residential Grenfell Tower block on June 14, 2017 in London, England. A fire that engulfed a London tower block killing at least 79 people started in a Hotpoint fridge freezer, London police said on Friday. Police Detective Superintendent Fiona …

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Late-Night Hosts Tear Into Senate Health Care Bill

Photo Trevor Noah said that the Senate Republicans’ health care bill has its priorities upside down, comparing it to “a fireman running into a burning building and saving the fire instead of the baby.” Credit Comedy Central Welcome to Best of Late Night, a rundown that lets you sleep — …

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Legg Mason survey shows Asian investors want to take on more risk

Kim Kyung-Hoon | Reuters Men look an electronic board showing stock information at a brokerage house in Beijing, China, January 5, 2016. Although the Asian growth narrative was a positive for the region, investors were first influenced by the primary environment they lived in, explained Legg Mason Global Asset Management …

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Review: ‘Nobody Speak,’ a Bombastic Look at Hulk Hogan’s Gawker Lawsuit

Photo Hulk Hogan leaving the courthouse after winning a lawsuit against Gawker Media. Credit Eve Edelheit/Tampa Bay Times via ZUMA Wire, Netflix If freedom of the press includes the right to print all-caps headlines with exclamation points, it also includes the right to make a cinematic exposé so bombastic that …

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