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...(FT, NYT, Reuters) In the news Dismal data spark economy fears Fears over the health of the global economy deepened on Thursday with the publication of a raft of dismal data, pouring fuel on the government...
...Soon dogs are on his trail, and in the midst of a dismal swamp, he is brought to bay by them....
...We have always understood that draining the swamp would be controversial in Washington.”...
...Still, Primark will not bet the farm in the US. Net debt stands at £827m, which is less than 0.5 times earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation....
...Non-farm payrolls data showed that 288,000 jobs were created in the US in April, beating expectations of 218,000 in a Bloomberg poll of analysts....
...Two years after the dismal flotation of Zynga – another digital gaming company derided as a flash in the pan – other European games designers fear they will be tarnished by the same brush....
...(Financial Times)(Bloomberg) TODAY: US non-farm payrolls. Consensus forecast is for an increase of 165,000 jobs in June....
...Overall, the S&P 500 dropped 3 per cent to 1,278.04 for the week, with heavy losses coming after the release of a significantly worse than expected non-farm payrolls report....
...The February data were marked by the first signs since 2008 that workers previously discouraged by dismal job prospects are starting to re-enter the labour market....
...Things just look dismal for them,” says a big European equity investor....
...“Results are unlikely to be dismal, and should show improvement over Q4, but we don’t expect seasonal improvement as strong as often seen in the past,” said a report from BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research...
...US non-farm payrolls report showed zero job growth in the country’s private sector last month, undershooting expectations of about 70,000 new jobs....
...The tragedy forced western clothing brands to confront the dismal safety record of Bangladesh’s garment industry – and reinforced a familiar activists’ narrative of underpaid workers toiling in grim conditions...
...She writes about little Ivan, convinced that his cuddly babysitter, Laura Idlewild, is really a circus trapeze artiste; about Tilda, transplanted from Hackney to a dismal farm dominated by her shotgun-toting...
...group, with headquarters in Pune in India’s Maharashtra state, plans to refocus its business more sharply on the fast-growing emerging markets of its own country, China, South Africa and Brazil, amid a dismal...
...If you look at the period since the beginning of the financial crisis, Germany’s economic performance has been dismal....
...More public support is needed to get the technology ready, unless there is a brake on the number of wind and solar farms that can be built, he says....
...Pearson: “State farm has a top score of 5 in brand contribution so it is very trusted.”...
...Michael Peel is author of ‘A Swamp Full of Dollars: Pipelines And Paramilitaries At Nigeria’s Oil Frontier’ (IB Tauris)...
...The most recent batch of ADP jobs numbers were dismal — and even more so than economists had expected....
...The market opened broadly flat as the bleak non-farm payrolls data from the Labor Department showing that 524,000 jobs were lost in December were no worse than traders’ biggest fears and broadly in line...
...Obviously [it is] foreboding ahead of [ Friday’s] non-farm payrolls report,” said Matt Esteve, a foreign exchange trader at Tempus Consulting....
...After widening yesterday, the credit and equity markets have proved surprisingly resilient to today’s non-farm payrolls figures....
...Citigroup estimates gross domestic product growth at a dismal 5.5 per cent for next year....
...Too much rolling down the highways, a shot of distant Las Vegas repeated four times, a commentary that veered towards dismal European schadenfreude (“the promise of boundless freedom …comes grinding to a...
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