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...October 5 to 13, with Carnival Day October 13; further information and tickets here South Beach Seafood Festival Miami’s favourite seafood dining spots take to the sand, setting up pop-up restaurants on...
...The bloc has sanctioned 1,473 Russian individuals and 207 entities and frozen €21.5bn of Russian assets....
...A treat with ham and other charcuterie.£20 for 75cl Ocado, range from £7.99-£10.99 for 37.5cl from a wide array of independents González Byass, Apostoles Palo Cortado 30 Years Old NV Sherry 20%Classic pale-orange...
...Monday–Thursday at 7.30pm and 9pm....
...Voting is mandatory in Ecuador and 13.1m people are registered, with fines of $40 for those who do not cast a ballot....
...And Numis: Provident reported a 13.4% decline in the loan book to £1,878m which drove a 12.5% reduction in revenue to £411.4m....
...In the UK, ecommerce took two decades to go from zero to around 7 per cent of total grocery sales. It then went from 7 per cent to 13 per cent in about eight weeks....
...The figure represented an easing in the pace of Indonesia’s export slowdown, after a 13.1 per cent fall in April, the worst drop since July 2016....
...Ruwan Wijewardene, the defence minister, said 13 people had been detained in connection with the blasts....
...Underlying sales growth was 4.5 per cent in the quarter to reach $13.3bn in sales, lower than the market’s expected $13.97bn. The profit miss was even wider....
...Mr Alvarado, a former TV anchor and crooner, scored 26.7 per cent of the votes counted, ahead of leading Antonio Álvarez, a banana entrepreneur, on 22.6 per cent in a race that had been characterised by...
...As Fabricio Alvarado moved into the lead, the second-place spot had been wide open — reflecting high levels of voter indecision in the fragmented 13-man race....
...Hoshinoya, 1-9-1 Otemachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-0004 (hoshinoya.com). Sushi Kanesaka, 1-1-1 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-0005 (en.palacehoteltokyo.com/restaurant/sushi-kanesaka/)....
...In the full year, excluding the Telefónica charge, net profit for 2017 was €4.6bn, up 19.7 per cent compared with the same period in 2016....
...The unemployment rate fell to a cycle low of 4.1 per cent last October, down from 4.7 per cent at the end of 2016. Over the past three months, unemployment has been steady at 4.1 per cent....
...In the six months to July 31, the company lost only £5.7m, compared with £7.9m in the same period last year....
...European markets Eurofirst 300 up +4.44 (+0.30%) at 1,500 FTSE100 up +37.81 (+0.52%) at 7,253 CAC 40 up +15.41 (+0.30%) at 5,229 Dax up +40.58 (+0.32%) at 12,559 Currencies €/$ 1.20 (1.20) $/¥ 111.80 (111.56...
...Weaker sterling underpinned the wider market as the FTSE 100 inched 0.2 per cent higher, up 13.64 points, to 7,350.92....
...De La Rue closed 3.7 per cent lower at 639p after Citi downgraded to “neutral”. A mixed wider market lifted the FTSE 100 by 0.2 per cent, or 13.57 points, to 7,248.10....
...Both EBITDA, and the company’s EBITDA margin, which increased 1.7 percentage points, were the highest achieved since 2007 and 2008 respectively, writes Jude Webber in Miami....
...Gold enjoyed a mild recovery in Asia trading with a rise of 0.2 per cent to $1,207.35 an ounce....
...Investors welcomed the move, sending the supermarket chain’s shares up more than 7 per cent to 207.20p per share in the first hour of trading on Thursday....
...My favourite of this year’s new releases is the third most expensive and venerable González Byass, Tres Palmas Fino NV Sherry (about £40 per 50cl Hedonism, Cambridge Wine Merchants, General Wine Co; 15.7%...
...Analysts on Wall Street have forecast earnings of $1.30 a share and expect sales to rise 2.6 per cent to $7.3bn....
...The government’s plans to raise the minimum wage by 50p an hour in April to £7.20 will also boost incomes for the lowest paid....
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