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...It spent €6.7bn on R&D last year, up from about €5.5bn in 2020, and plans to spend up to an additional €2bn over the next two years....
...The company on Friday said it planned to invest close to €7bn on R&D this year, up from about €5.5bn in 2020....
...However, a cut to earnings forecasts because of the increased R&D budget caused shares to fall almost 20 per cent in one day, and they have remained in that range....
...Potts insisted the CD&R deal was good for Morrisons in the long term despite its £6.6bn debt burden....
...Additional reporting by Adrienne Klasa in Paris Florasis has clarified that its R&D spend is Rmb1bn, not Rmb 10bn as originally stated...
...Additional reporting by Adrienne Klasa An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that Kerring owned Loro Piana....
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...The company has £9.6bn under management excluding R&M — a small fraction of the £464bn Abrdn had when Gilbert left....
...R&M chair Jonathan Dawson said the takeover “confirms the board’s view that the market was undervaluing R&M.” The asset manager’s share price closed at 300p on Tuesday....
...“This confirms the board’s view that the market was undervaluing R&M and validates the steps we have taken to realise value for our investors,” Dawson added....
...An R number above 1 signifies cases are spreading exponentially, while below 1 they are slowing....
...England’s R number, or reproduction number, has fallen to a range of 0.8 to 1.0 — down from 0.9 to 1.1 at the beginning of September....
...The R, or reproduction rate, which measures the average number of people one individual infects, however, remains elevated across the UK at between 0.9 and 1 for all regions....
...Charging a 1.3 per cent management fee, it currently has net assets of R$2.17bn ($421m), and is the second-most owned ETF on the bourse....
...Production: Adrienne Klasa...
...discovery by R&B revue leader Ike Turner, who remoulded her, renamed her, took her to soul stardom (or travelled there on her back) and beat seven shades of hell out of her . . ....
...During the state visit to China, Ms Fernández apparently mocked the Chinese accent in Spanish on her Twitter account by making a joke in which she substituted r’s for l’s....
...“This is a huge problem,” said Jason Marczak, deputy director of the Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center at the Atlantic Council....
...The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien. Do you keep a diary? Intermittently, but I do try to write down everything I read and watch, as well as any art I see, because otherwise things seem to meld into one....
...There are certain Victorian ghost stories I wouldn’t read if I were alone in the house, particularly M.R. James. Would you rather marry a good poet or a bad novelist?...
...They wanted that track and wrote the ad to that style,” says Helen Kimber, RKCR/Y&R business development director....
...In these decades appeared the best work of Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, John Berryman, Frank O’Hara, James Merrill, Adrienne Rich, Sylvia Plath, A.R....
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