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...By striking deals with famous people young Brits can identify with, it has eclipsed well established British brands like Marks and Spencer and rival online retailer Asos....
...I doubt I have ever spent more than £15 on slippers or bought them anywhere but Marks and Spencer....
...While DryShips' reverse splits generally exchanged anywhere from four to 15 shares for one, Helios & Matheson was not quite as subtle....
...Winners from the run-up to the festive period so far include John Lewis and House of Fraser, while results from Next and Marks & Spencer have been less pleasing....
...It was a heart-racing thirty minutes: stocks listed on exchanges in Shanghai and Shenzhen began heading south straightaway until they hit a threshold which forces a 15 minute trading halt to kick in....
...For better or worse, it’s a symbol of US capitalism,” says Spencer Mindlin, an analyst at Aite Group, a markets consultancy, in New York....
...Mr Armour was a close ally of Sir Crispin Davis, Reed’s former chief executive, and he is the longest-serving FTSE chief finance director, having held the post for 15 years....
...Leading the blue-chip risers, Autonomy climbed 5.3 per cent to £15.43 following better than expected results overnight from technology companies including Oracle and Accenture....
...A shareholder revolt over pay, performance and succession planning at Marks and Spencer is looming at next month’s annual meeting of the retailer....
...Marks and Spencer dipped 2.7 per cent to 352¼p even though Capital Research & Management declared a raised stake of 5.5 per cent....
...●Having called the recovery in Marks and Spencer after Christmas, Stuart Rose will deliver his third set of annual results as the group’s chief executive....
...Another 15-20 staff were given 15 per cent of GLG two months ago, while 10m shares have been set aside for the rest of the nearly 300 employees....
...Next and Marks and Spencer continued their good runs, up 2 per cent to £15.30 and 1.4 per cent to 479p respectively on indications of strong Christmas trading....
...Chilean copper miner Antofagasta was the leading blue-chip riser, up 2.8 per cent to £15.05 after Numis raised its price target by £2 to £18.15....
...In a recent research report, Spencer Wang, a JPMorgan entertainment analyst, noted that DVD releases had increased from 1,522 in 1997 to more than 11,000 last year....
...It prompted another round of selling in large-chain retail stocks, with Wm Morrison down 2.3 per cent to 178p, J Sainsbury 2.8 per cent weaker at 275p and Marks and Spencer 0.6 per cent softer at 345¼p....
...Other high street stocks felt the benefit, including clothing group Next, up 2.5 per cent to £15.70, and electrical retailer Dixons, 1.8 per cent higher at 159p....
...Marks and Spencer fell 1.8 per cent to 360.5p as the South African financier Mark Paulsmeier said he was not interested in making a bid....
...Xaar, the ink jet printer company, added 15.4 per cent to 164p on news that full-year profit would be ahead of general expectations....
...Other retailers felt the benefit, including Marks and Spencer, which was 0.5 per cent to the good at 354¾p....
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