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...Apparently it will pay tribute to the history of R&B, which is promising: Usher is a formidable song-and-dance man. He has also hinted at a tribute to his hometown Atlanta’s strip clubs....
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...“All in all it’s a travesty. I think it’s undone 10 years of investment in making the UK a competitive place for start-ups.”...
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...This sounds to us like a stretch, and consumers who can’t afford the new mortgage rate or a car loan payment are not deciding based on theoretical changes in r-star....
...About nine in 10 S&P 500 stocks were trading lower as traders assessed US inflation data that was higher than expected for March....
...The Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Pearl S Buck amassed a personal library that fills two rooms of her 19th-century Pennsylvania farmhouse....
...His response: I think the financial result would be very close to the same . . . if you want to join something that may have a tiny expectation of better [performance] than the S&P, I think we may be about...
...“It is a coming of age,” said Howard Silverblatt, senior index analyst at S&P, of the dividend announcement....
...I bought an S&P 500 fund a few weeks later, selling again in September for a tidy 12 per cent profit. I felt smug after share prices dropped almost a tenth over the subsequent two months....
...bit easier. . . the first letters of each answer spell out C-H-R-I-S-T-M-A-S in acrostic....
...Jeffrey S Merrifield is a former Commissioner of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (1998-2007), leads the nuclear practice at Pillsbury Law Firm, and chairs the US Nuclear Industry Council When I started...
...“I don’t believe that we are facing an immediate debt problem,” he said. A more pressing issue, he added, was the country’s acute demographic crisis....
...S&P 500 dividend yields went as high as 9.2 per cent in the first quarter of 1938, according to S&P Dow Jones Indices. Even IPOs paid them, as I read to my surprise in Peris’s book....
...The earthquake isn’t the only shock I’ve had lately. Last week I had lunch with a longtime source who works at a production equipment maker....
...Business and consumer confidence also expanded with the closely watched S&P PMI survey indicating private sector activity grew at the fastest pace in eight months in January....
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...“I think something that I should have explained better at earnings was that almost all of the increase in investment in R&D is in D. Because that’s where the action is for us....
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