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...Among premium services popular with middle-class Chinese consumers are free designated drivers and shared office spaces, as well as free repairs....
...says goodbye to ice cream European bank bonuses dip, unsurprisingly A Wall Street rental car dream becomes a nightmare A year ago, Hertz released an advertisement with Tom Brady in which the retired American...
...The chaotic used-car market of the pandemic was no fun for Americans who suddenly needed a fresh set of wheels....
...A repair centre in Stockholm visited by the Financial Times this week seemed to be operating largely as normal....
...The underlying trends here are much weirder than a simple price war, as they include a new law in Florida, pricier car repairs, and possibly a TikTok trend....
...The figures are distorted by movements in the value of its mammoth $353bn stock portfolio, which includes stakes in Apple, American Express and Bank of America....
...Blame car insurance and repair inflation (for details, listen to the Unhedged podcast)....
...About 70 per cent of the company’s free cash flow comes from cable subscription fees at a time when increasing numbers of Americans are transitioning to streaming....
...During the quarter, however, those businesses — including the brick maker Acme and flooring group Shaw — were able to raise prices and registered strong demand....
...The fundraiser will go towards necessary repairs to the building and will directly support Ukrainian artists....
...Marcus embodies the version of American capitalism modelled by the likes of Andrew Carnegie....
...“It is the most fundamental protection of the body when it works, and then when it gets distorted, then you need to sort of repair to get back in line.”...
...“It’s a tsunami of cash,” said Raoul LeBlanc, head of S&P’s North American oil and gas division. “The companies have almost finished the balance sheet repair.”...
...Blackstone said it “intend[s] to provide capital and approved financings for necessary repairs and maintenance”....
...He hoped the deal would give him time to repair his credit and eventually qualify for another mortgage....
...But the writing was already on the walls of the New York offices of Wedgwood Inc. (USA)....
...The firm has also set aside $450m for repairs and capital investments, according to a person familiar with its plans....
...Workers carrying out construction and (in some cases) repairs have to be paid “prevailing wages”. A certain proportion of the work will also have to be carried out by apprentices....
...It is known as a parp inhibitor, targeting a weakness in the cancer’s DNA repair system....
...Americans spending more time at home are undertaking more do-it-yourself projects and also making bigger investments in their properties....
...Mr Duperreault has been given credit for returning AIG to profitability, after earlier struggling to repair a business and reputation tarnished by the financial crisis, when it made disastrous derivative...
...Extra time inside also caused more wear and tear, he noted, increasing the need for repair and maintenance....
...Marvin Ellison, chief executive, told analysts on Wednesday that customers had taken to garden landscaping as well as indoor repair and maintenance work.Doug McMillon, Walmart chief executive, this week...
...Legislators are rightly discussing support for everything from greener forms of transport such as passenger rail, to highway and bridge repair....
...So how to repair it? The business leaders who recognise there are faultlines in the US economy need to start with a few basic steps....
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