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...At the end of July, Inditex had 6,654 stores across the world....
...Additional reporting by Daniel Shane in Hong Kong...
...(Financial Times) The Australian government has blocked Archer Daniels Midland’s A$3.4bn (US$3.1bn) takeover of GrainCorp, saying the acquisition was not in the national interest....
...Times) OVERNIGHT MARKETS: UP Asian markets Nikkei 225 up +137.47 (+1.01%) at 13,726 Topix up +3.28 (+0.29%) at 1,137 Hang Seng down -28.61 (-0.13%) at 22,583 US markets S&P 500 up +6.05 (+0.37%) at 1,654...
...at 13,351 Nasdaq up +43.93 (+1.46%) at 3,055 European markets Eurofirst 300 up +4.91 (+0.43%) at 1,137 FTSE100 up +23.75 (+0.40%) at 5,936 CAC 40 up +10.53 (+0.29%) at 3,649 Dax up +48.64 (+0.64%) at 7,654...
...Sales fell 24.1 over the year to 2,654 units compared with 3,499 units sold a year ago. The inventory of homes for sale was up 34.6 per cent to 7,003 units from the prior year total of 5,204 units....
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