There are many associations that come to mind with the Kentucky Derby.
But to be a true participant in the Derby spectacle, one needs a proper Derby hat.
The tradition for wearing eye-catching attire to America’s most famous horse race began in the 1870s.
The founder of the Kentucky Derby, Meriwether Lewis Clark Jr., was inspired by the fashionable dress codes at events like Ascot in Britain and Paris’s Grand Prix.
Creating his own, he figured, would transform his racetrack from a place of ill-repute to one for well-heeled high society.
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Meriwether Lewis Clark Jr, ”, —Organizations:Kentucky Derby, Paris’s, The New York Times, DerbyLocations:Derby, Britain, Churchill Downs
LONDON, Nov 9 (Reuters Breakingviews) - Insurers used to get heat for underwriting fossil fuels.
Membership of bodies like the Net-Zero Insurance Alliance (NZIA) was supposed to mean financial groups would cease supporting oil, gas and coal, speeding the pace of decarbonisation.
Similarly, five of the Lloyd’s insurance market’s managing agents – RiverStone, Chaucer, RenaissanceRe, Ascot and Aegis – have not implemented any restrictions on fossil fuels.
Insurers have even fewer qualms about supporting oil and gas.
Governments have made energy security a key priority since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and can reasonably argue that abrupt halts to backing fossil fuels will just mean higher energy prices.
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Warren, Berkshire Hathaway, Starr don’t, – RiverStone, Chaucer, Insuramore, Pamela Barbaglia, George Hay, Oliver TaslicOrganizations:Reuters, Zero Insurance, Axa, Everest, Aegis, Reuters Graphics, X, Bayer, SEC, Paramount, ThomsonLocations:Zurich, PICC, RenaissanceRe, Ascot, Ukraine
She uses the app By Rotation to rent out dresses and accessories from her closet.
For example, a three-day dress rental for a summer wedding can cost between $78 and $450, depending on the label.
Hollishead has made £7,637 in rental sales, or about $9,812, on the By Rotation app in the past year.
Renting my clothes is the ideal side hustle for me because I love buying dressesHollishead rents out her designer dresses on the By Rotation app.
Here's how a rental on the By Rotation app works:Hollishead suggests writing thorough descriptions of each item you rent out.
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Charlie Hollishead, Hollishead, Zimmermann, I've, you've, Ganni, Leslie Amon, Charlotte SimoneOrganizations:Service, AscotLocations:London, Wall, Silicon
She uses the app By Rotation to rent out dresses and accessories from her closet.
For example, a three-day dress rental for a summer wedding can cost between $78 and $450, depending on the label.
Hollishead has made £7,637 in rental sales, or about $9,812, on the By Rotation app in the past year.
Renting my clothes is the ideal side hustle for me because I love buying dressesHollishead rents out her designer dresses on the By Rotation app.
Here's how a rental on the By Rotation app works:Hollishead suggests writing thorough descriptions of each item you rent out.
Persons:
Charlie Hollishead, Hollishead, Zimmermann, I've, you've, Ganni, Leslie Amon, Charlotte SimoneOrganizations:Service, AscotLocations:London, Wall, Silicon
This year's spring was the hottest and second-driest in Spain since records began in 1961, with higher-than-average temperatures likely to continue this summer, the country's environment ministry and weather agency said.
Locations:Spain
LONDON, May 4 (Reuters) - U.S. private equity firm Summit Partners is looking to sell a stake in Swiss wealth manager Cinerius Financial Partners amid increasing consolidation in the sector, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters.
Summit intends to bring in another private equity fund to help fund Cinerius' growth, particularly through acquisitions, one of the people said.
Asset manager BlackRock Inc (BLK.N) provides debt financing for Cinerius' acquisitions through its private credit arm, the person added.
BlackRock, Cinerius and Summit Partners did not respond to requests for comment.
Belgian private bank Degroof Petercam is reviewing strategic options after drawing interest from rivals, Reuters reported last Friday.
Jeremy Selwyn/WPA Pool/Getty Images Camilla stands next to Queen Elizabeth II during a Diamond Jubilee pageant on the River Thames in June 2012.
Chris Jackson/Getty Images From left, Camilla, Charles, Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip attend the state opening of Parliament in May 2013.
From left are Camilla, Charles, Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Louis, Duchess Catherine, Princess Charlotte, Prince George and Prince William.
Frank Augstein/WPA Pool/Getty Images In pictures: Britain's Queen Camilla Prev NextShe reportedly met Prince Charles at a polo match in Windsor in 1970 and they became friends.
From left are Camilla, Charles, Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Louis, Duchess Catherine, Princess Charlotte, Prince George and Prince William.
When American Airlines hired her in 1973, Bonnie Tiburzi was the only woman among 214 new hires.
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Bonnie Tiburzi, the first woman to fly with American Airlines as a pilot in 1973.
A Boeing 727 jet in American Airlines livery similar to the one Tiburzi would have operated.
Look like a female pilotWhen Tiburzi first started working for American Airlines, there was no uniform for female pilots.
After 26 years with American Airlines, I retired in 1999.
AB InBev's sales and earnings declined in China due to a strict zero COVID policy that was suddenly dropped in December.
In the United States, AB InBev's largest market, profit and revenue increased, largely because of price increases, although those same increases, along with harsh winter weather in December, cut into beer sales in volume terms.
REUTERS/Toby Melville 1 2Brewers have raised beer prices in response to higher energy and raw materials costs, and both Heineken (HEIN.AS) and Carlsberg (CARLb.CO) have warned of reduced beer consumption in Europe because of the increases.
For the whole year, core profit growth was 7.2%.
AB InBev also increased its full-year dividend to a proposed 0.75 euros from 0.50 euros in each of the past two years.
Other world leaders who died in 2022 include former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who died in August.
The final days of 2022 saw the loss of some exceptionally notable figures, including Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI.
Here is a roll call of some influential figures who died in 2022 (cause of death cited for younger people, if available):___JANUARY___Dan Reeves, 77.
A Cuban-born artist whose radiant color palette and geometric paintings were overlooked for decades before the art world took notice.
A prolific character actor best known for playing villains and tough guys in “The Manchurian Candidate,” “Ocean’s Eleven” and other films.
“Spoiler Alert” opened in U.S. theaters Dec. 2.
“Women Talking” opened in select U.S. theaters Dec. 2.
“The Whale” opens in U.S. theaters Dec. 9.
“Babylon” opens in U.S. theaters Dec. 23.
“I Wanna Dance With Somebody” opens in U.S. theaters Dec. 23.
LONDON, Nov 2 (Reuters) - Lloyd's of London insurer Ascot is once again quoting on its cargo insurance facility for the Black Sea grain corridor, the facility's lead underwriter said on Wednesday.
Ascot said on Monday it was suspending the cover after Moscow suspended its participation in the U.N.-brokered grains export deal.
Russia said on Wednesday it would resume its participation in the grain deal.
Other insurers also provide cover through the facility.
Reporting by Carolyn Cohn and Jonathan Saul, Editing by Louise HeavensOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
Soybeans gained more ground, climbing to their highest in more than a month, while corn ticked lower.
"While Russia pulled out of the export grain corridor deal from Ukraine, there was still grain flowing out of Ukraine," Hightower said in a report.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday that his country would continue exporting grain from its Black Sea ports because the shipments offered stability to world food markets.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) on Monday rated 28% of the U.S. winter wheat crop in good-to-excellent condition, the lowest for this time of year in records dating to 1987, underscoring the effects of persistent drought in the Plains wheat belt.
Commodity funds were net buyers of CBOT wheat, soybean, corn, soyoil and soymeal futures contracts on Monday, traders said.
Soybeans and corn lost ground after closing higher on Monday with a rapid pace of U.S. harvest weighing on prices.
* Losses in the wheat market were curbed by dryness hitting the U.S. winter crop.
For corn, the harvest was 76% complete, ahead of the average analyst estimate of 75% and the five-year average of 64%.
* Commodity funds were net buyers of CBOT wheat, soybean, corn, soyoil and soymeal futures contracts on Monday, traders said.
DATA/EVENTS (GMT)0030 Japan JibunkBK Mfg PMI Final SA Oct0145 China Caixin Mfg PMI Final Oct0330 Australia RBA Cash Rate Nov0700 UK Nationwide house price MM, YY Oct0930 UK S&P GLBL/CIPS Mfg PMI Final Oct1345 US S&P Global Mfg PMI Final Oct1400 US ISM Manufacturing PMI OctU.S. Federal Reserve's Federal Open Market Committeestarts its two-day meeting on interest ratesReporting by Naveen Thukral; Editing by Sherry Jacob-PhillipsOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
CHICAGO, Oct 31 (Reuters) - U.S. wheat futures jumped 6%, hitting a two-week high, and corn rose 1.6% on Monday as Russia's withdrawal from a Black Sea export agreement raised concerns over global supplies.
Chicago Board of Trade December wheat settled up 53 cents at $8.82-1/4 per bushel after reaching $8.93-1/4, the contract's highest since Oct. 14.
CBOT December corn ended up 10-3/4 cents at $6.91-1/2 a bushel and January soybeans finished up 19-1/4 cents at $14.19-1/2 a bushel.
Reuters GraphicsReuters Graphics"The grain and oilseed markets rose sharply overnight, led by wheat, as food shortage fears rise again after Russia pulls out of the Black Sea trade agreement," StoneX chief commodities economist Arlan Suderman said in a client note.
Moscow suspended its participation in the Black Sea deal on Saturday in response to what it called a major Ukrainian drone attack on its fleet in Russia-annexed Crimea.
LONDON, Oct 31 (Reuters) - Lloyd’s of London insurer Ascot is suspending writing cover for new shipments using the Ukrainian grains corridor in the Black Sea until it has more clarity about the situation there, a senior official said on Monday.
Moscow said it was forced to pull out of the Black Sea grain shipping deal after blasts damaged Russian navy ships in the Crimean port of Sevastopol on Saturday.
"From today we are pausing on quoting new shipments until we better understand the situation,” Ascot head of cargo Chris McGill told Reuters.
Ascot and broker Marsh launched a facility for grain traders in late July to provide up to $50 million in cargo cover for every voyage.
Russia's announcement on Saturday that it was suspending its role in the U.N.-backed programme that escorts cargo ships through the Black Sea fanned fears it would reimpose a blockade on Ukrainian grain.
The Crown Estate's income goes to the UK government, which gives the royal family an annual payment.
The assets of the Crown Estate are worth about $17 billion.
The Crown Estate is a collection of property and other holdings belonging to, but not managed by, the monarch.
While the King technically owns the Crown Estate by virtue of being on the throne, he is not involved in its management.
The Crown Estate's portfolio also includes parts of the shoreline and seabed, forests, farms and the Windsor Estate.