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...But some of Hankey’s companies have been accused of being dishonest with their customers, too....
...And here’s what I’m keeping tabs on today and over the weekend: Economic data: The US Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics releases monthly import and export statistics and the University of Michigan...
...A survey by the American Farm Bureau Federation found the average cost of a Thanksgiving dinner for 10 people will be $61.17, a fall of 4.5 per cent from record levels in 2022....
...The share price of two of the largest US car insurance companies — Take Allstate and Progressive — have fallen in the past month, reflecting the rising costs of underwriting auto insurance policies....
...The company is trying to understand the full extent of the involvement of partners outside Australia and whether there was a wider cultural problem at the firm, two people familiar with the situation said...
...Key economic and company reports Here is a more complete list of what to expect in terms of company reports and economic data this week....
...Companies This is a week for insurance earnings reports....
...Hello from DC, where coronavirus has truly taken hold, and your FT bureau has taken to working from home like most of the city....
...According to the National Bureau of Statistics, over the first two months of the year China’s imports of crude oil increased more than 5 per cent compared with the same period in 2019....
...Idexx said in October that the animal health market had experienced a “V-shaped recovery”....
...The University of Michigan’s preliminary reading of consumer sentiment index for March is out on Friday....
...Among the tidy farms of north-west Iowa, signs painted with prayers and anti-abortion slogans are interspersed with seed company ads....
...Financials the key sector beneficiary: We are Overweight Banks and Insurance from a top-down strategy perspective....
...In early 2019, the National Bureau of Economics estimated that as much as $165bn of trade would have to be rerouted per year to avoid even the tariffs in place at the end of 2018....
...Investing in a second property could provide a rental income, but the cost of living in Dubai is high and pensioners would need private health insurance....
...“At some point the Democrats who are serious [about winning] in Iowa are going to have to talk about trade, but it’s hard,” says David Salmonsen, head of congressional relations at the American Farm Bureau...
...What we’re reading Barr v Congress When William Barr cleared Donald Trump on obstruction of justice on Sunday, the US attorney-general held true to a long-held and expansive view of presidential authority...
...John Pottow, a bankruptcy professor at the University of Michigan law school, says: “This myth of a fresh start, that doesn’t work for someone who is 75....
...Investors will be keeping an eye on the impact of higher freight costs and the company’s full-year revenue forecast....
...“There was a fairly generous mistrust of the house of medicine in general, so when Suboxone came along it was seen from that same sort of vantage point....
...One of Torotrak’s most promising gadgets has long been the V-Charge, a smarter version of a turbocharger that took six years to develop....
...Cojean, the upscale fast food company, has four locations in walking distance of the FT’s Paris bureau not far from the Elysée Palace, the president’s official residence....
...In 2015, American exports of “automotive vehicles, parts, and engines” were worth about $150 billion, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis....
...insurance beneficiaries....
...This is a groovy software company in Michigan, and is the very same place chosen by Saval as an example of a new, improved way of working....
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