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...Jefferies is saying that some investors (probably bigger and hopefully more sophisticated ones) are now basically setting up DIY multi-managers by making SMA investments in a bunch of smaller, specialised...
...“New York companies are buying up residential homes, so everyday Philadelphians are being outbid by LLCs and corporations, people who have been here for generations....
...It’s unclear how long people will stay away from gyms and classes or indeed whether their habits will change after doing DIY workouts at home....
...Travis Perkins, the builders’ merchant, is also looking to separate retail DIY chain Wickes from its trade-focused operations. Reiss, Warburg Pincus and Rothschild all declined to comment....
...That’s the subject of Werner Herzog’s new film Family Romance, LLC (opening in the UK later this year)....
...From DIY centres to TV broadcasters and blue-chip tech giants to robot makers, crematoriums and producers of fire hoses, companies are being forced to publicly engage with activists at a frequency and intensity...
...The firm grew out of the family office of Charles Feeney, the billionaire co-founder of Duty Free Shoppers, and has also bought stakes in ManoMano, an online DIY and home improvements platform; Sézane, a...
...ManoMano, a French DIY website, has raised €60m to try to take on bricks-and-mortar DIY retailers in Germany and the UK, where chains including B&Q and Homebase have suffered big falls in sales....
...Scripps specialises in real estate, DIY and lifestyle series, with hits like HGTV’s Fixer Upper and Property Brothers and Food Network’s Chopped and Cupcake Wars....
...“I complain to the ETF providers about this every month,” says Mark Taylor, chief executive of Selftrade, the DIY investment platform, who believes this is making passive investing much harder work than...
...The Australian supermarket giant last week finally detailed how it planned to unwind its failed attempt to crack the domestic DIY market, with a three-way deal that was supposed to bring in gross proceeds...
...up 0.1 per cent, although investors were kept busy with results as Qantas reported its best underlying profit on record, and Wesfarmers, the supermarket-to-coal conglomerate that recently took over UK DIY...
...Last week, Mr Cohen announced that he would not just invest $2m in the company from his venture capital unit, but also hand over up to $250m to Quantopian’s DIY algo traders to play with....
...The three-year-old company, which had been selling its loans to Jefferies Group LLC and Pine River Capital Management, saw funding dry up as more of its borrowers failed to repay their debt....
...Modern brokerages and investment platforms give DIY investors the ability to trade in all kinds of international stocks but 60 per cent still show a home bias to the UK market due to the lack of a consistent...
...Targets have included Home Depot, the DIY retailer, where Mr Whitworth eventually helped to force out chief executive Bob Nardelli, and the biotech firm Genzyme, which was eventually sold to Sanofi....
...(Financial Times) Home Depot, the largest DIY chain in the US, is looking into a possible theft of customer data, the latest in a growing chain of data breaches by hackers to hit US retailers and banks....
...Moves to avert a strike at US ports caused a turnround for the shares of Home Depot and Lowe’s, two big DIY retailers whose shipments could have been disrupted by the dispute....
...Fourth, on hypermarkets which have been suffering from a sharp fall in non-food sales, Mr Plassat intends to sell more fresh food in place of categories such as jewellery, electronics, sports goods and DIY...
...Where it runs between the city of Sendai and the Pacific coast to the east, National Highway Number 4, Japan’s longest road, is a seemingly endless strip of diners, car dealers and DIY home centres that...
...And the winner is…Amanda Brooks, the author of the DIY style tome “I Love Your Style,” aka ex-director of fashion at William Morris Endeavor Entertainment....
...The alternative music scene was just that: lo-fi, raw-sounding and based on a punk DIY ethos that came to be known as grunge....
...Related links: DIY stress test – FT Alphaville Statement: Fed Releases More Stress Test Methodology Details – FT Alphaville...
...These compounded fears about weak trading following a GfK survey for April showing DIY sales down 20.5% year on year....
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