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...Reporting by Robert Smith, Sarah White, Arash Massoudi, Leila Abboud, Adrienne Klasa, Barney Jopson and Ivan Levingston....
...“It was OK but it wasn’t Barney Greengrass or Russ & Daughters,” he says, referring to famous New York delis. “Do you want to split this?”...
...Markit has grown aggressively by snapping up rivals since its founding in a Hertfordshire barn in 2001, as had IHS....
...Forever 21’s lease term was also shortened as part of the agreement....
...Privately-held groups such as mass-market Sears and luxury chain Barneys New York have been through bankruptcy proceedings in the past year....
...How much firepower does S&N have? We hear anywhere in the range of $3bn-$5bn....
...The benchmark S&P 500 index registered its first annual decline since the financial crisis in 2018, reflecting pessimism about the outlook for US corporate earnings....
...Shares in several other banks also rallied in late trading, giving respite to investors after the S&P 500 Financials index endured 13 consecutive days of declines — its longest losing streak on record....
...One of Mr Khosrowshahi’s own hires, chief operating officer Barney Harford, has been accused of making insensitive comments about women and minorities....
...Shareholders of Campbell Soup will next week decide if they will vote in favour of five board candidates proposed by Dan Loeb’s Third Point....
...Williams-Sonoma, which owns West Elm and Pottery Barn, fell 2.4 per cent to $52.59 while RH, formerly Restoration Hardware, shed nearly 3 per cent to $99.48....
...Among the private equity owned retailers who have fallen into distress over the past decade are luxury goods brands including Barneys and Neiman Marcus, specialty apparel retailers such as J Crew and Claire...
...Additional reporting by Barney Jopson in Washington...
...The S&P 500 index was off by 0.1 per cent, reversing a rise of as much as 0.3 per cent....
...The Treasury department said the “commission’s pursuit of retroactive recoveries is not only in tension with the G20’s efforts to emphasise tax certainty, but also sets an undesirable precedent that could...
...Contributors have included musicians Laurie Anderson and Bjork, and visual artist Matthew Barney....
...Shares in the S&P 500 insurer leapt 7 per cent in after-hours trading....
...Hedge funds and brokers tend to like State Street’s SPDR ETFs because of their liquidity — SPY, which tracks the S&P 500, is the largest ETF in the world....
...Foreign-domiciled companies have spent $315bn since January to buy US-domiciled targets, according to S&P Capital IQ, close to the record for the whole of 2007, the previous peak....
...“Fred killed Barney” (of all the people Fred could have killed); “Barney was killed by Fred” (of all the people who could have killed Barney); “Fred killed: Barney” (his first murder — and poor old Barn)...
...The S&P 500 slid 0.6 per cent to 2,067.64, the Dow Jones Industrial Average declined 0.7 per cent to 17,440.59. The Nasdaq Composite fell 1 per cent to 5,039.78....
...The S&P 500, which had its biggest rally in a month on Wednesday, rose 0.2 per cent to 2,108.86 while the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 0.2 per cent to 18,039.37....
...(FT) Markets Data 05:34 BST Asian markets Nikkei 225 up +94.89 (+0.47%) at 20,078 Topix up +10.87 (+0.67%) at 1,630 Hang Seng down -26.28 (-0.09%) at 28,407 US markets S&P 500: -0.41% at 2,109 DJIA down...
...There is a consolidation play afoot among companies that own barns full of servers, the machines powering the internet revolution....
...Reporting by Matthew Garrahan, Shannon Bond and James Fontanella-Khan in New York and Barney Jopson in Washington...
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