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...In its title and cocksure pose, “Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self” recalls James Joyce’s photograph on the Penguin edition of Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man....
...In both instances, the subtlety that enriched earlier passages, in which the reader was left to intuit the emotion beneath Morris’s words, is sacrificed, and the effect weaker....
...The collapse in demand has weakened EM corporate profitability and liquidity,” said Joyce Jiang, an analyst at Moody’s....
...Liquidity is historically always weaker at this point in the calendar, as fund managers are wary of making big bets ahead of the end of the year. This is particularly noticeable in December....
...“We first used it on one of our models to see if it worked, and then we wanted to roll it out to all of Waymo,” said Joyce Chen, senior software engineer at Waymo, who led the project....
...Among haven currencies, the Swiss franc is 0.2 per cent weaker at SFr0.9687 per dollar, while Japan’s yen is 0.1 per cent stronger at ¥111.60 per dollar....
...About 23 per cent of the producers surveyed were facing less new work, while one-tenth cited weaker demand from overseas....
...But Robert Joyce from the IFS said this was “the result of more women becoming highly educated, and a decline in the wage gap among the lowest-educated”....
...Currency concerns Another drag on growth is the weaker renminbi....
...Alan Joyce, chief executive of Qantas, Australia’s flag carrier, expresses concerns typical of many in the industry....
...International competition is moderating as a weaker Australian dollar makes it less profitable for foreign airlines to run Australian routes....
...Qantas said the size of the writedown was largely due to the planes being bought when the Australian dollar was weaker. It is a non-cash charge with no cash impact on the group, it said....
...A$253m higher fuel expense, driven by the weaker Australian dollar. Revenue fell 3 per cent, a result of “aggressive international competitor capacity.”...
...Joyce Huang, a director with Fitch in Hong Kong, said the problems in Taiwan’s insurance sector were more pronounced than in the rest of Asia, but its difficulty matching its liabilities with its investment...
...Results for that business line were weaker at $104m, down 8 per cent from the same quarter a year ago, in contrast to the 69 per cent growth in market-making revenues to $187m....
...Weaker domestic and international demand led to a 4.3 per cent fall in passenger yield and a 1.1 per cent decrease in load factor to 79.6 per cent....
...That is, perhaps, an even weaker reason. Mind you, he says, “it is appealing”. But wait, there is a far simpler – and cruder – reason, summed up in the tit-for-tat approach of Senator Barnaby Joyce....
...Mr Joyce said that while Qantas was now benefiting from the fall in fuel prices, this had been offset by “reduced demand”....
...On a more positive front, fuel prices have fallen and a weaker Australian dollar is reviving some travel markets, notably Japan....
...Mr Joyce could not be reached for comment on Wednesday....
...Only one of the five Britons - firefighter Brian Joyce - has been to Iraq before....
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