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...Shares of NRG fell 1 per cent in early trading on Monday....
...Except the Pinot.£23 Berry Bros & Rudd Antoine Graillot & Raúl Pérez, Encinas 2020 Bierzo (13.5%) Lots of stoniness on the nose — very distinctive....
...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...
...Merck is forecasted to have earned $1.24 a share on fourth-quarter revenue of $13.7bn, compared with $1.48 a share on sales of $13.5bn....
...Dezer had 1,200 Trump-branded units on the books. There was the 55-storey Trump Royale and then three identical Trump Towers that were built in a joint venture with Pérez’s Related....
...Southwest flew 7 per cent less than the same period of 2019....
...When the exchange rate hit $1.13, they thought it was a good time to buy. The other is a three-bedroom apartment in a mansion block south of the high street for £3.5mn....
...That compares with 7.5 per cent for American, 10 per cent for United Airlines and 13-14 per cent for Delta, which in 2012 bought a Pennsylvania oil refinery to help manage jet fuel prices....
...The couple, bringing their four children and 13-year-old dog, sold their four-bedroom, 2,450 sq ft house in East Hampton, Long Island, for $1.6mn and traded up to a 4,500 sq ft home in nearby Amagansett...
...But after two weeks of training, followed by 13 weeks living in a truck based in the Netherlands — all for a mere €2,470 — the 30-year-old quit. “It’s not a normal life for a human,” he said....
...Inflation of 7 per cent — the rate in Germany in March — effectively cuts household discretionary spending there by 13 per cent, according to a McKinsey analysis....
...However, Perez Ruiz admits that a significant reason for this is growing concern about exposure to bonds....
...If we look at the current level of real yields (-1.13 per cent) and replace it with the 0.5 per cent average, you lift the 10-year by 1.63 to 2.88 per cent....
...The Swiss lender said on Thursday it would sell 203m convertible notes to existing shareholders as it seeks to lift its common equity tier 1 ratio from 12.2 per cent to 13 per cent....
...Voting is mandatory in Ecuador and 13.1m people are registered, with fines of $40 for those who do not cast a ballot....
...Sotheby’s seems to be of this mindset as it has slapped on an “overhead premium” from August 1....
...then occupancy would be below 20 per cent until Labor Day which falls on September 7 this year....
...In 1975, aged 13, Samuel Fosso set up his own photography studio in the Central African Republic, having fled the Biafran war in Nigeria....
...In turn, Dow Utilities, a relative laggard so far this year with a gain of 7 per cent, is now just shy of its record high set in late 2017....
...Venezuela’s crude production fell to 1.1m barrels a day in December, just a third of its level in the mid-2000s....
...In September, Venezuela pumped just 1.2m b/d, its lowest output since the 1940s....
...Vodafone, which invests €7.5bn a year in capital expenditure and saw a 1.1 per cent drop in revenue in Europe in the third quarter, also questioned whether 5G would be the growth driver some assume...
...If we have 7 per cent more, we can spend those 7 per cent. This is what we plan for the next year and there is a high probability that we will succeed....
...They boast that their 1,500-strong range starts at £5.75 a bottle and, at a recent tasting of 36 of their summer wares, I found myself marking 13 of them either GV (good value) or VGV (very good value)....
...The investment management business seemed solid, too, with fees up 12 per cent to $1.4bn....
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