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...“Our historical bias is to build and not buy,” said Spencer Neumann, chief financial officer, in a video call with analysts....
...“Deception operations have always been part of war, but now their effect is magnified by social media,” said John Spencer, a former US army major who chairs urban warfare studies at the Modern War Institute...
...In the key retail division — a joint venture with Marks and Spencer — the 5 per cent revenue uplift was driven by an 8.4 per cent increase in selling prices and a 10.6 per cent uplift in active customer...
...Spencer Neumann, Netflix chief financial officer, said new ad-supported services were still in “start-up mode”....
...HOLD: J Sainsbury (SBRY) A strong Christmas season underpinned a bullish trading update for the supermarket group, writes Christopher Akers....
...Additional reporting by Christopher Grimes in Los Angeles...
...A Very Private School: A Memoir by Charles Spencer (William Collins/ Simon & Schuster)Unflinching personal account of a boarding school childhood exposes the shocking flaws, cruelties and life-long legacies...
...Ocado Retail, the joint venture with Marks and Spencer, said in a third-quarter trading update this month that “we now expect to see a small sales decline” in this financial year....
...BUY: Greggs (GRG) The company continues to make progress, with strong sales growth and positive news on delivery service and evening eating, writes Christopher Akers....
...Virtuous Bankers: A Day in the Life of the Eighteenth-Century Bank of England by Anne L Murphy (Princeton) The story of how the 18th-century Bank of England became — in the words of Adam Smith — “a great...
...Come for the masterly plotting and offbeat humour, stay for 2022’s most unlikely screen romance between John Turturro and Christopher Walken....
...The report from Netflix, published after the market close on Tuesday, marked a reversal in fortune for a company that has shown blistering growth over the past 10 years, and which boomed during the depths...
...If anything, the turmoil has prompted Spencer, a philanthropist and full-time impact investor, to increase his commitment....
...During Tuesday’s video call with investors, Spencer Neumann, Netflix chief financial officer, said the company would “pull back on some of our spending growth”, though company officials say it will continue...
...We have already seen upmarket rival Marks and Spencer cut prices on a range of household staples, a clear sign that the supermarket price war is in the offing....
...Kotick could stay on through a transition period, according to people familiar with the deal, but it is clear that Microsoft’s gaming boss Phil Spencer will run the business....
...Britain deserves better than Boris Johnson, but it deserves better than a wistful, half-sob jab of Remainism.” — Spencer Dodington, Islington...
...“Oh no,” says Christopher Modoo, a menswear stylist and former fashion editor of Thoroughbred Owner & Breeder magazine. “It’s a national embarrassment....
...As the dust settled on a shambolic 24 hours, many seething Conservative MPs were asking how Johnson and his chief whip, Mark Spencer, had contrived such a spectacular defeat....
...I recently found a bright orange vintage one on eBay. Saying this, I have my eye on a single cup teapot from the antiques dealers Spencer Swaffer in Arundel, West Sussex....
...In a review of the unsecured credit market carried out by former interim chief executive Christopher Woolard, the Financial Conduct Authority warned that billions of pounds were being lent in unregulated...
...That was in a response to an initiative from one of its largest shareholders, billionaire UK hedge fund manager Sir Christopher Hohn, through his TCI Fund Management group....
...And the photograph that was released was him handing a can of Estrella, Simon Case laughing, and some Marks and Spencer sandwiches on the table....
...After a “chance meeting” with former JO Hambro and now Harwood Capital boss Christopher Mills led Gilbert to take a 10 per cent stake in his AssetCo investment vehicle, he has directed a chunk of its cash...
...& Watford, a specialised gilt jobber, and a small team of Japanese equity brokers, led by Christopher Heath from Henderson Crosthwaite....
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