Hints and tips:
...The Japanese owner of 7-Eleven’s in talks to buy Marathon Petroleum’s Speedway US petrol station chain for about $22bn, according to a person. ......
...Some convenience store chains such as 7-Eleven and Lawson have already taken action by cutting the price of produce just before its sell-by date....
...Third-quarter organic sales down 11.3 per cent, rather than the minus 6 per cent expected, with cognac sales down by 7.6 per cent organically....
...–Larry Summers, Jackson Hole 2005 You might think Summers had changed his mind in the eleven years since he called Raghuram Rajan a “Luddite” for daring to suggest the financial system had gotten riskier...
...The Lees’ direct holding in group flagship Samsung Electronics is just 4.7 per cent....
...Polo Club August 11 Sotogrande Silver and Gold Cups Sotogrande, Spain July 28 - August 31 Audi International Polo Series Chester Racecourse, England v Australasia September 7 Super Nations Cup...
...Under Another Sky: Journeys in Roman Britain, by Charlotte Higgins, Jonathan Cape, RRP£20 Higgins drives a blue camper van around Britain seeking out the ruins of Roman civilisation....
...POP Ziggyology , by Simon Goddard, Ebury Press, £20, 352 pages After the comeback and the V&A retrospective comes Bowie fatigue. Do we need more adulation?...
...The company trades at 7.5 times cash flows and I think it will end its story as a public company through a leveraged buy-out sometime in the near future....
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