Hints and tips:
...Smaller rival H&R Block trades on a multiple of only 12 times. But this premium has more to do with bog-standard accounting than cutting-edge tech....
...The American singer, aka Brittney Denise Parks, wore a red belted outfit that gave her the look of a Marvel superhero. A bow for her violin was kept in a quiver on her back....
...Some of them were at a recent screening of the film, part of a tribute to producer Edward R Pressman, who died in January....
...The Brazilian Association of Investors, aka Abradin, has called for regulators to investigate Americanas and PwC, calling the scandal a “multibillion fraud”....
...The Red Sox and Liverpool are the heart of a sports empire Henry has assembled from his winnings as a futures trader, running quantitative investment strategies for his eponymous John W....
...“I’ve known quite a lot of fund managers who thought risk was spelt R.E.W.A.R.D,” says Arthur Copple, chair of Temple Bar investment trust....
...O Over-rule When an umpire reverses a call by a line judge, aka how umpires prove they’re awake. P Passing shots Things of beauty that have more or less killed off serve-and-volley tactics....
...We should aim to at least double R&D as a share of GDP (public and private funding together)....
...“We can’t find a link and no one can tell us if there is a link to Abramovich,” said Ronald Sanders, Antiguan Barbudan ambassador to the US....
...Americans spend hours each year gathering W-2s, 1098s and other obscurely coded documents in order to complete their 1040s — aka the US federal tax return....
...That finally stirred a quiescent establishment, including President Dwight Eisenhower and the legendary CBS broadcaster Edward R Murrow, to fight back....
...He advised president George W Bush and was a highly respected champion of the type of free-market ideas espoused by Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher....
...GILD’s c$15bn cost base vs $11bn core op.income, of which c$5bn lies in R&D/SG&A), but also require very significant job cuts at a time of global economic hardship....
...For electric vehicles, persistently cheap oil is likely to delay price parity between clean cars and conventional autos by a year or two, Morgan Stanley analysts said in a March 9 research note....
...Stanley W R de A Samarasinghe Tulane University,New Orleans, LA, US...
...It saw as “hugely important” evidence of Beyond Meat products delivering same-store sales growth for Burger King and diner chain A&W Restaurants, “because it means that the brand is driving same-store foot...
...If Debt/GDP is about 1 now (UK-US levels) you can run a primary deficit of (g-r) — where g is growth rate and r is real cost of borrowing — and keep Debt/GDP constant....
...Here’s Morgan Stanley’s summary: A mixed call from G4S sees little recovery in the shares....
...Zeng Rong Spokesman,Chinese Embassy in the UK Letter in response to this letter: ‘Economic relationship’ is all in China’s favour / From Stanley W R de A Samarasinghe, New Orleans, LA, US...
...[W]e would NOT be a buyer of credit institutions until things settle and we anticipate we see further aggressive selling pressure in UK Financials today following a minor relief rally on Friday....
...In an early indication of his independent thinking, he told a reporter he had befriended, R W Apple, then covering the war for the New York Times: “Now I’ve seen what the bombs and napalm did to the people...
...The ardent genuflections of Benjamin Kallo of R.W....
...In the 1980s, under the Ronald Reagan administration, there was briefly a push for a more cohesive industrial policy around technology, but it was ditched as soon as George H W Bush took office....
...Alan Greenspan, who was first appointed by Ronald Reagan, won reappointment from George HW Bush, Bill Clinton and George W Bush....
...lowest unemployment since the George W Bush era....
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