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...But that’s Tom Cruise: a tiny splinter of granite, chiselled straight from the rock of L Ron Hubbard, he’s never stinted in his commitment to serve the multiplex....
...Westminster is more like Goodfellas without the guns — Marina Hyde in The Guardian How the G.O.P....
...The following table comes from p.154 of my 2009 book Debt Spiral and is based on data from Inside Mortgage Finance: Note the changes in private label securitisation....
...Another, the PowerShares S&P SmallCap Low Volatility ETF, has nearly half of its assets in financials....
...Karen Hubbard has been appointed chief executive of Card Factory, a value retailer of greetings cards whose shares have performed strongly since it floated in 2014....
...Consumer staples is currently trading on a p/e of nearly 22....
...Letter in response to this article: Brave new tax world based on heroic assumptions / From Alex P Galea...
...Last month, the S&P agreed to pay nearly $80m to resolve allegations it misrepresented its methodology for assessing such securities....
...Porsche, a historic structural underperformer, grew by “just” 24.48 per cent, closely aligning with the S&P Global 1200’s 22.68 per cent performance for the year. So what of 2014?...
...“The first step is to raise average (not marginal) tax rates on upper-income taxpayers,” Hubbard writes....
...(FT) - Charles Ferguson on Glenn Hubbard. (Zero Hedge) - “Stirred, but not shaken”, or what makes James Bond great....
...- Time Kane and Glenn Hubbard are blogging....
...(Financial Times) - Romney adviser Glenn Hubbard supports a third Bernanke term. (Reuters) - South Korean household debt hits critical point....
...Paul Thomas Anderson’s widely praised The Master won a lick and a nod from the jury: Best Director for Anderson, Best Actor for Philip Seymour Hoffman, magisterial as the L Ron Hubbard-style cult guru....
...“Old Mother Hubbard’s cupboard was bare so manufacturers had to ramp up production very fast from a low level just to put stuff on the shelves....
...Shares in Bodycote fell 27½p, or 22 per cent, to 95½p, valuing the company at £396m....
...Shares were up 6.3 per cent or 13¼p by early afternoon to 223¼p....
...Shares in the company rose 3¼p to 203¼p....
...The shares, up 30¼p to 241¾p, also benefited from a positive trading update. Sales in the first four months were up 18 per cent compared with 2007....
...Boots shares slipped 1.2 per cent to 713½p in early London trade, after gaining in the run-up to the results....
...Company accounts can promise Aladdin’s cave and deliver Mother Hubbard’s cupboard. A company seemingly wallowing in profits can go broke tomorrow....
...RC firmed 0.7 per cent at 34¼p....
...Deutsche also highlighted Marks and Spencer 0.4 per cent firmer at 360½p, Signet up 2.6 per cent at 108¾p and Halfords 0.3 per cent firmer at 295p, all as candidates for a share price bounce....
...Shares in the Anglo-Dutch steelmaker held steady at 51½p....
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