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...Brent Hoberman, who co-founded Lastminute.com in the 1990s and now runs a consultancy that supports tech entrepreneurs, sympathises with the desire to retain control....
...Terry Walby, Thoughtonomy’s founder, says his aim is not to automate workers, but to automate work....
...Sir Terry did not state reasons for his departure from B&M....
...Putting Philip Clarke into the still warm seat of Sir Terry Leahy worked out badly at Tesco. Shaking up an inward-facing organisation has obvious appeal to those looking in....
...“When I first got here you used to have to walk around with a knife,” Aaron Brent, an inmate at Angola since 1976, told me on one of my visits to the prison....
...B&M Value Retail, the discount store chain chaired by former Tesco boss Sir Terry Leahy, has been going in the opposite direction to “premiumisation” – by increasing its bargain offerings....
...Mr Duffy said the proposal could also shift the price relationship of the two main oil benchmarks, West Texas Intermediate and Brent crude....
...The ratings agency now forecasts Brent crude, the international benchmark, to average $33 a barrel in 2016, down from $43 previously....
...Terry Marshall, an analyst at Moody’s, says: Increasing consumption will not match the increase in supply....
...Brent gained 8 per cent to trade at $31.68 on Friday....
...Tesco may also put on the block Turkish subsidiary Kipa, acquired during the reign of Sir Terry Leahy....
...Equity markets have been particularly whipsawed by crude price movements, with a strong rally seen on Thursday and Friday as both Brent and WTI benchmarks crept back towards $31 a barrel....
...In June 2014, a barrel of Brent crude for 2020 delivery was $98....
...-95.13 (-1.60%) at 5,867 CAC 40 unchanged 0.00 (0.00%) at 4,155 Dax unchanged 0.00 (0.00%) at 9,168 Currencies €/$ 1.10 (1.10) $/¥ 112.02 (112.14) £/$ 1.39 (1.39) €/£ 0.7923 (0.7906) Commodities ($) Brent...
...Terry Farr and James Gilmour, of RP Martin, are each charged with conspiring with the UBS traders, Paul Robson of Rabobank and Luke Madden of HSBC to rig the rate....
...Besides Hayes and other UBS employees, the various co-conspirators named in the indictment include Brent Davies, then an ICAP employee, Paul Robson of Rabobank and Luke Madden of HSBC. ...
...In other corporate news this morning, fastFT reports B&M European Value Retail, the discount chain chaired by former Tesco boss Sir Terry Leahy, has announced a significant slowdown in sales growth....
...Trade data suggested that Mr Terry had dumped around 23m of his Quindell shares at 42p apiece....
...It also offers free trading in its own Brent crude contract....
...Other news from fastFT: B&M European Value Retail, the discount chain chaired by former Tesco chief executive Sir Terry Leahy, grew sales 4.4 per cent on a like for like basis last year – a slowdown from...
...(NYT$) Discworld author Sir Terry Pratchett dies The writer has passed away at the age of 66, eight years after he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease....
...Mr Mason-Mahon also attacked the legacy of former chief executive Sir Terry Leahy, dubbing him “Sir Lippy Leahy” after Sir Terry said recently that he was disappointed with Tesco’s performance....
...have highlighted the relationship between the size of the country’s official US bond holdings versus the overall value of its forex reserves * Fundsmith launches emerging markets trust | Fund manager Terry...
...Daniel Wilkinson, a former broker at ICAP; Brent Davies, who was both at ICAP and RBS; Paul Robson, a former trader at Rabobank; Guillaume Adolph, formerly at Deutsche; and Mirhat Alykulov, who was Mr Hayes...
...Varieties of Gulf crude have traded at record discounts to Brent of more than $10 a barrel in recent months....
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