Hints and tips:
...My colleague David Hindley will be holding the fort, and keeping you ahead of the agenda, while I am away. What are your priorities for the next seven days?...
...Bank of England deputy governor David Ramsden, Reserve Bank of Australia governor Michele Bullock, Bank of Spain governor Pablo Hernández de Cos and People’s Bank of China governor Pan Gongsheng speak at...
...The tasty nine-course menu selected by director David Hallberg showed off the breadth of the company’s current repertoire....
...Hedge fund manager David Tepper followed the same playbook — holding a limited stake in the Steelers before buying the Carolina Panthers in 2011....
...There will be no disruption to the Week Ahead service, however, as I am leaving that duty in the very capable hands of my colleague on FT Edit David Hindley....
...But the deal does not include Topps’ candy and gift cards arm....
...When I was 12, I collected old baseball cards and I swapped a 1954 Topps Hank Aaron for a 1955 Topps Hank Aaron. A rookie card — the first one — is a really big deal. I still regret that!...
...We told you a few weeks ago how former UK prime minister David Cameron had been avoiding the FT’s questions on Greensill....
...No reason was given for the departure of David Fairhurst, who had been installed as chief people officer by Mr Easterbrook when he took the top job in 2015....
...Topps: not so bonny tiler If it’s all going wrong for Carpetright, and it’s not sofa, so good for DFS, must the bottom fall out of Topps Tiles?...
...In 2007, alongside Madison Dearborn Partners, the private equity group, Mr Eisner bought Topps, a trading card company that has a licensing deal with several US professional leagues and the English Premier...
...But it is a high-risk tactic, as David Viniar, then chief financial officer of Goldman Sachs, discovered at a senate hearing in 2008....
...Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson apparently became the first casualty of the leaked Panama documents affair when it was announced he was stepping down....
...Topp Fargion talks about the spread of the Jamaican Gumbé rhythm. “The beat was played on a square drum that looked like a stool, to fool the slave owners who had forbidden music....
...OQ is more rattled by the news that David Cameron has bought a second-hand Micra....
...David Maxwell, partner and member of the national leadership board at advisers Grant Thornton, says: “The UK midsized business segment is the unsung success story of the UK economy.”...
...David Jeary, an analyst at Investec, said the trading figures were encouraging news, albeit against the company’s weak performance in the same period last year....
...However, David Jeary at Investec said Topps’ shrinking sales “marks a surprising and disappointing slip....
...David Duffy, AIB chief executive, is expected to outline how the lender plans to tackle the problem....
...“Declining customer footfall is Topps’ key problem,” said David Jeary, retail analyst at Investec....
...Flooring specialist Topps Tiles rose 4.9 per cent to 27p on news that its like-for-like sales had fallen by 4.2 per cent in the first quarter – an improvement from the 6.9 per cent like-for-like revenue...
...But while these high-profile sectors found life tough, companies in other industries found that their own trading performance was not as bad as their share prices suggested, says David Snell, partner at...
...Topps Tiles slid 4.4 per cent to 54.3p after Investec Securities reiterated its “sell” rating and reduced its target price from 50p to 40p....
...Last week, a profit warning triggered by a 10 per cent drop in sales caused shares in Topps Tiles, the wall and floor coverings specialist, to lose nearly a third of their value in one day....
...In response to the allegations, Sino Forest’s David Horsley, chief financial officer, said the Muddy Waters report was incomplete....
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