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...Phil Spencer, chief of Microsoft Gaming, pointed to a recent report by tech author and investor Matthew Ball, showing that the games industry grew by less than 1 per cent last year....
...— Very, very few shows broke through the 100-million-hour mark— A very sizeable chunk of shows fall under 1,000,000 hours....
...for the week ending August 5 — higher than consensus estimates of 230,000 and up from 227,00 a week earlier....
...And one more thing: The Swiss government has cut bonuses for about 1,000 senior bankers at Credit Suisse....
...White says that ChartHop’s data of almost 1,000 companies suggests pay levels are converging between top-tier cities with high costs of living, and other, cheaper, cities around the US....
...Gulf Keystone was paying Zahawi £29,643 a month by the time he stepped back from the role in 2017. In total, including a £285,000 leaving bonus, he earned at least £1.3mn....
...The closed-end fund has raised £1.2bn and splashed it on around 60,000 songs from artists including Bob Dylan, Blondie and Neil Young....
...Marks & Spencer’s shedding 7,000 jobs, its second round of cuts in as many months. The news forces M&S into issuing an unscheduled trading update and -- it’s okay?...
...In 2020, it won orders worth $1.65bn from customers including GSK and AstraZeneca, up from $265m in 2019....
...The same agent is selling a two-bedroom apartment on the 27th floor of a building in the Colombo City Centre complex for $375,000, down from $420,000....
...17.00 BST (GMT + 1)....
...This balances revenue and means the company is not especially vulnerable to the success or failure of any one title....
...£13, in part on optimism about the grocery technology company’s new Zoom product, which promises one-hour delivery on 10,000 products....
...In the 1950s, The 64,000 Question awarded successful contestants 64,000 sixpences, or £1,600 (later doubled to 64,000 shillings)....
...The Coimbra bookshop has around 26,000 titles in total, all of them shipped in from Portugal....
...at 5,471 Dax unchanged 0.00 (0.00%) at 13,320 Currencies €/$ 1.20 (1.20) $/¥ 113.24 (113.09) £/$ 1.35 (1.36) €/£ 0.8865 (0.886) Commodities ($) Brent Crude (ICE) up +0.08 at 67.70 Light Crude (Nymex) up...
...And you can’t possibly miss a day’s racing from the Royal Enclosure at Ascot. You won’t find bankers picking up a sandwich meal deal from Marks and Spencer....
...The economic calendar is light (all times London): 08.00: Spain industrial output 09.30: UK consumer price index 11.00: Ireland property prices...
...” ● Whitman Howard cuts Marks and Spencer to “hold” from “buy”....
...(+0.66%) at 6,496 European markets Eurofirst 300 up +6.73 (+0.44%) at 1,525 FTSE100 up +49.94 (+0.68%) at 7,373 CAC 40 unchanged 0.00 (0.00%) at 5,330 Dax unchanged 0.00 (0.00%) at 12,829 Currencies €...
...from its December meeting at 1900 GMT....
...Finally, fruit, flowers and candles: £200,000....
...This move will see the company separate physically from its building-mate ICAP, which has been bought by Tullett Prebon....
...and bank liabilities surveys 12.00: Office of Budget Responsibility Fiscal risks report The markets at 07:58 Asian markets Nikkei 225 up +1.43 (+0.01%) at 20,100 Topix down -0.23 (-0.01%) at 1,619 Hang...
...FTSE100 up +24.00 (+0.33%) at 7,367 CAC 40 up +6.28 (+0.13%) at 5,000 Dax up +26.85 (+0.22%) at 11,990 Currencies €/$ 1.06 (1.07) $/¥ 115.11 (114.87) £/$ 1.21 (1.22) €/£ 0.8766 (0.8718) Commodities ($...
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