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...exd2 4 Qxb6 mate (by Fritz Giegold). Chess: 2337 The traps are 1 c8=Q? which is an immediate stalemate draw, 1 c8=R? Ke6! 1 c8=B? Kc6! and 1 c8=N? Kc4! Instead, mate in two is by the unlikely 1 Ne4!...
...bit easier. . . the first letters of each answer spell out C-H-R-I-S-T-M-A-S in acrostic....
...July 7-9, northseajazz.com Wireless, London This London weekender brings the best in hip-hop, grime and R&B from both sides of the Atlantic to Finsbury Park....
...This is compared to Band 2 roles in the NHS which are being advertised with a starting salary of £9.65p/h, Band 3 roles at £10.40p/h and Band 4 roles at £11.53p/h....
...To value AJB, we take our earnings forecasts to 2022, assume 15% annual growth for five years and terminal growth of 4%. Discounting back at 9% we reach a 280p price target....
...Furthermore, IAG’s liquidity situation is much better, with total available liquidity of €9.5bn (vs Lufthansa at €4.4bn and AF-KLM at €6bn as of 12 March, so closer to €5bn by now, in our view)....
...The picture at the federal level with H.R. 2339 is complicated....
...As can Morgan Stanley: EBITA beat, guidance edged up, an interim dividend and positive on cost savings Beat: H1 net sales were down 9.5% (MSe 11.5%) organic at £4,668m (MSe £4,616m)....
...However an argument could be made that Ocado (n/r), which is valued at an equity value of £16.9bn (EV of £17.36bn) and trading on an EV/sales of 6.7x CY’21 is a relevant comparative and one that is listed...
...Here’s Barclays with a wall of numbers: Key numbers: · 4Q Food LFL: +4.6% (vs Barclays +4.5%), · 4Q Clothing & Home LFL: -13.8% (vs Barclays -13.5%) · FY Food gross margin: fell...
...We downgrade Whitbread (WTB) to Sell (from Neutral) with 9% downside to our revised 12-month price target of 4,200p (vs. 11% average upside for our coverage)....
...Investec turns buyer on Royal Bank of Scotland: The UK Government chose to acquire 84.4% of RBS during 2008/9 at c.£5 per share....
...Fifty years ago it was all the rage for American business icons to be driven by fear of microbes into becoming reclusive and now it’s the opposite: Elon R Musk, Tesla Inc: [T]his is the time to think about...
...2.4% of GDP....
...We think the unemployment rate will rise from 4.9 per cent to a peak of 7.0 per cent in mid-2021. Clearly that’s not great....
...Mr Trump said in a tweet: I am pleased to announce that, effective 4/9/18, @AmbJohnBolton will be my new National Security Advisor. I am very thankful for the service of General H.R....
...A cautious outlook was seen cutting 2018 consensus earnings expectations by about 4 per cent....
...From April the National Living Wage will rise again, by 4.9%, from £7.83 to £8.21 handing a full-time worker a further £690 annual pay increase and taking his or her total pay-rise, since the introduction...
...The company had “never been as strong as today in R&D” and had “a great portfolio” of products across all its divisions. Some investors have suggested that S&N needs to make strategic acquisitions....
...Lorenzo Codogno, founder and chief economist, LC Macro Advisors Consumer spending will continue to slow in keeping with the rest of the economy....
...Shares in H&R Block jumped 12.5 per cent to $24.23 after the tax preparer lifted its quarterly dividend by 10 per cent to 22 cents a share....
...Bloomsbury, both £9.99. The best gift I’ve given recently was a taxidermy chicken, to my husband’s grandmother....
...This year’s carnival began on January 23 and runs until February 9....
...Zytronic attributed much of this performance to investment — spending on R&D and capital equipment more than doubled to £1.3m last year....
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