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...William Dixon London SE18, UK David Wilson Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, UK...
...First South Korea, now Japan is worrying about a falling birth rate (Report, FT Weekend, April 13)....
..., Opinion, April 1) has recently lamented the fact that the moral compass of western society is broken. I think she is right....
...The letter from Ira Sohn (“We can beat the baby bust — with the right policies”, April 5) needs challenging....
...His curling back, lizard limbs and eerily silent footfalls combine to create a man on the brink, bringing the tormented anti-hero fully — and terrifyingly — to life. ★★★★☆ To April 13, roh.org.uk...
...Plates are the “Trojan horses” of the decorative arts, says British ceramic artist Stephen Dixon....
...Adjusted profits excluded last year’s half-billion goodwill writedown on the 2014 combination of Dixons and Carphone that created Currys....
...Ministers intend to ratchet up minimum energy efficiency standards (MEES), making it illegal to let out offices with an F or G rating from April next year....
...Like the rest of the travel industry, Dixon suffered a huge blow with the onset of the pandemic. The Singapore-Indonesia border stayed closed more or less consistently from early 2020 until April 2022....
...Greece has made such good progress that it repaid all its IMF credits in April, two years ahead of schedule....
...The UK’s biggest electricals retailer, previously known as Dixons Carphone, said it still expected to make adjusted pre-tax profit of about £160m for the year to the end of April 2022....
...On a two-year basis, retail like-for-like sales grew by 12.9 per cent over the quarter as a whole and were up 18.5 per cent in the eleven weeks since stores fully reopened in April, it said....
...Analysts expecting adjusted earnings per share of 10.95p for the year ending April 2022, up from 10.7p in FY2021, according to FactSet consensus estimates....
...For the year to the end of April the company — known as Dixons Carphone until last year — expects adjusted pre-tax profit of £155m against an estimate of £160m made immediately before the peak trading period...
...Because it was close to the end of the UK tax year on April 5, he had to write a grovelling letter to Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs....
...Dixons Carphone said that online sales of electrical goods more than doubled in the year to April, offsetting the extended closure of most of its stores in the UK and Ireland and allowing it to repay tens...
...Revenues of £10.3bn in the year to April 30 were lower than they were four years ago and it only just managed to eke out a small £12m profit after a couple of years of heavy losses....
...Just six weeks after talking of green shoots, Dixon had to slash earnings guidance because an occupancy shortfall since April was hitting high-margin revenue such as meeting room hire....
...However, revenue was flat this time around as the retailer formerly known as Dixons Carphone, which sells home electronics and appliances, warned of a tough trading period ahead....
...In April, Matt Hancock, then health secretary, declared that “improving the disparities in healthy life expectancy is absolutely at the core of our levelling-up agenda”....
...But the period also marked an “inflection point” in the pandemic, said the company, with occupancy beginning to pick up in March and April. “It looks like the worst is behind us....
...Dixons’ half-year results point to progress....
...“We believe that the next wave of computing innovation will be driven by crypto,” the fund’s partners Chris Dixon, Katie Haun, and Ali Yahya wrote in a blog post....
...During Khan’s Senate confirmation hearing in April, Mike Lee, Republican senator from Utah, raised the issue of impartiality, citing a 1966 court decision to disqualify then-FTC chair Paul Rand Dixon from...
...Dixons Carphone said trading has remained strong since January with group sales up 12 per cent in the 25 weeks to late April. The retailer reported “very strong” online growth in all markets....
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