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Capital Confidential: Whispers from the U.K.’s business and politics worlds

This week: Guy Hands’ fears for his life while he was putting EMI on the straight and narrow; altruism from the City’s brokerage houses; and rumours of a Howard-Rokos reconciliation... Getting into the wrong Hands Guy Hands’ ill-fated £4.2bn takeover of EMI in 2007 ultimately led to the death of the storied music label, with it being broken up five years later. But the private equity tycoon has now revealed “drug gangs” at EMI were out to physically assault him after his firm Terra Firma Capital Partners began running the label. Hope Stringer, a gas broker on the energy desk of Marex Spectron, the commodities brokerage, was re-diagnosed with cancer, in the form of a soft tissue sarcoma, at the end of 2018. Six months ago, Jackman was considered among the favourites for Academy Award recognition for his portrayal of former Colorado senator and presidential candidate Gary Hart in political drama The Front Runner. Howard’s way Things got notoriously acrimonious between hedge fund managers Alan Howard and Chris Rokos when the latter left Brevan Howard, the former’s firm, in 2012 to set up his own shop. Capital asks because when Howard was quizzed by industry magazine EuroHedge which European hedge fund manager he would invest with, he named Rokos. “Twenty-one years was enough. Poor performance Which fading hedge fund manager attended a recent Mayfair dinner in a hoodie and ripped jeans, smelling of alcohol and resembling a vagrant? Good Deedes Farewell to The Dastardly Mr Deedes column in the Daily Mail, which has gleefully skewered City skulduggery for the past three years. Want news about Europe delivered to your inbox?
Larry Kudlow: Second quarter growth rate is sustainable

Larry Kudlow: Second quarter growth rate is sustainable

Director of President Trump's National Economic Council says he believes U.S. economic growth will continue at a robust rate for 'quite a while.' FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service dedicated to delivering breaking news as well…