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...“quot;Initially the plan was to sell online products from African retailers to the African diaspora in Europe, before deciding to target a much bigger market: the emerging middle class in west Africa.”quot...
...So he expects underlying sales growth to remain in the lower half of the 3-5 per cent range, with underlying operating margin “on track” but still not reaching “our 2020 goals.”quot; As the City expected...
...What was said: Chief executive Nick Beighton said “quot;This has been another year of substantial progress for Asos....
...for the Group are positive and that the Company will continue to develop the business and build shareholder value through a combination of organic growth and further acquisitions as the year progresses.”quot...
...Is it time for "helicopter money" as conventional monetary policy fails to sufficiently boost demand? Or is the concept already here in the form of quantitative easing?...
...;banking union"....
...Long View columnist John Authers and FT global markets commentator Jamie Chisholm discuss the "hypersensitivity" of the markets, as a European Central Bank policymaker, Ewald Nowotny, today discussed...
...;meticulous" in asking state-owned mining companies to demonstrate their deals will add value....
...;unprecedented"....
...Robin Wigglesworth, capital markets correspondent, explains to Long View columnist John Authers that gilts are seen as a "safe haven" and Danish bonds as a play on a eurozone collapse....
...Judith Hardt, secretary-general of the Federation of European Securities Exchanges, makes the case for "useful trading" and admits that her members must learn to 'talk to' rather than 'talk down...
...So-called "emerging" Asia has matured and now trades at parity with the US....
...The Lex team's Richard Stovin-Bradford and Luke Templeman discuss the positive effect for results of Accor's "asset light" strategy....
...Changing the actuarial review date from end-December last year to end-June 2011 - described as pulling a "rabbit out of the hat" helped....
...The Vix, Wall Street's "fear gauge", is at levels last seen five years ago, before the financial crisis kicked off properly....
...The Markets in Financial Instruments Directive or Mifid, which has spawned a host of market structure changes such as equity market fragmentation and growth of "dark pools", is a huge topic for...
...Barclay Capital's Jonathan Spall sees plenty of "juice" in gold price and says gold is once again being seen as "money"....
...Mr Fox says he "inherited a dog's breakfast" and will have to maintain tight cost controls....
...Investment editor James Mackintosh examines the "W-shaped double bottom" in the S&P 500. Does it mark W for worry or for win? He queries whether US equities have become a bargain....
...UBS has discovered potential losses of $2bn ascribed to "a trader" in its investment bank....
...The Swiss franc fell more than 9 per cent against the euro after the Swiss National Bank said it would use "unlimited" funds to defend the SFr1.20 exchange rate ....
...The battle is growing over the future of global derivatives clearing with intense competition between "vertical silos" and "horizontal" rivals....
...Jennifer Hughes, senior markets correspondent, looks at the rationale behind so-called "bull flattener" trades and what these signal about the economic outlook....
...The free market theories of "Chicago School" economists have been blamed for the financial crisis....
...Over the last few days Italy has joined the eurozone's periphery countries, Greece, Portugal and Ireland, while core country France has slipped into the "soft core" Italy used to inhabit....
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