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Pharmanovia switches auditor ... again

Another dose of complications for lenders

InterContinental Hotels and the occasionally delightful inefficiency of markets

Intercontinentally wide spreads

Bad news: Zurich’s Beazley bid is a symptom of London getting cleaner

What doesn’t leak doesn't live

And the charts quiz winner isn’t…

Capital markets

Could Europe really leverage its $12.6tn pile of US assets?

NIIPing an outlandish idea in the bud

Economic statistics

Will it be another plane weird UK inflation print?

Blame on current air fares

FTAV’s further reading

China; prediction markets; US banking; Bari Weiss; linear time; boredom; and snooker

How much TV is too much TV?

Charts for charts’ sake

What caused UK retail’s tilt to gilts?

Gilty pleasures

Sovereign wealth funds

Is the US about to screw SWFs?

Fund management

But I repeat myself

The UK’s online retail habit is bigger than we thought

Second to none, or maybe two

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