Hints and tips:
...Stephanie Flanders, chief market strategist for Europe, J P Morgan Asset Management To more than 3% by the end of 2017....
...Marian Bell, former MPC member UK growth will continue to surprise on the upside in 2017....
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College My guess is he will be too timorous to do the right thing....
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College Most unlikely....
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College Open question. Depends if he injects a major fiscal stimulus....
...Marian Bell, former member of the MPC I don’t know; there is still a lot to play for, but I fear the worst....
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College More pessimistic than 12 months ago I am more pessimistic despite the most recent data being better than many including me expected....
...On Wednesday, J Sainsbury warned that there had been a dramatic change in grocery shopping habits, despite the improving outlook....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...Mr Apotheker was thus replaced by two new co-chief executives – an American, Bill McDermott, and a Dane, Jim Hagemann Snabe....
...The same is true of plans to produce a live-action version of J.R.R. Tolkein’s The Hobbit....
...He no longer owns Idol and five years ago sold his company, 19 Entertainment, to media group CKX Inc....
...Irving Penn: Small Trades By Virginia A Heckert and Anne Lacoste J Paul Getty Museum, £34.99 A magnificent memorial tribute to the American photographer who died last month....
...“At the end, I had an X-ray and was told that, unbelievably, there was no wear and tear,” he says. “And I’m certain I got fitter during that run.”...
...Ray-Ban tripled sales of its Predator 2 line of dark glasses through its tie-in with Men in Black....
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