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...The sector might manage sales growth of 7 per cent this year, thinks Bernstein, down from 15 per cent in 2023. Hence the decline in Douglas’s share price....
...Gordon Brown in 2010, John Major in 1997 and Alec Douglas-Home in 1964 all held on until the last possible minute....
...Bernstein Litowitz has the right to ask the court to pay it up to one-third of the “benefit conferred” by the ruling....
...★★★☆☆ Single-minded men are fast becoming the running theme of this year’s festival, with Bradley Cooper’s Leonard Bernstein biopic Maestro looming this weekend....
...The Total Perspective Vortex, an invention of sci-fi writer Douglas Adams, tortured victims with their own insignificance. Saudi Aramco fulfils that function for oil supermajors....
...“Valeria wanted to increase awareness of the gender imbalance in public collections and do something about it,” says CAS director Caroline Douglas....
...Then, in 1989, a young Miami restaurateur named Douglas Rodriguez — the son of Cuban immigrants — elevated the local Latin dining scene....
...Analysts at Bernstein reckon that in the event of the worst-case scenario with little flying over the summer, only Wizz is likely to avoid having to raise more money....
...Daniel Roeska, an aviation analyst at Bernstein, said airlines with the highest debt would have to reduce their balance sheet “scars” before they become attractive again for investors....
...As social scientists Mary Douglas and Aaron Wildavsky pointed out in their seminal 1983 book Risk and Culture, “The perception of risk is a social process.”...
...The FT revealed this month that the panel, led by former HS2 chairman Douglas Oakervee, was looking at axing part of the planned northern section of the line....
...The actions, which Bernstein food retail analyst Bruno Monteyne expects to save up to £170m a year, are clearly more incremental than the bold moves Mr Lewis made soon after he took the helm....
...Douglas Harned, aviation analyst at Bernstein, said the commercial impact would be minimal because Iran accounted for just 2 per cent of the two companies’ combined order backlogs....
...The Woos Douglas Woo, the grandson of shipping tycoon Pao Yue-kong, took over as chairman of property and logistics group Wheelock in 2014....
...A four-bedroom home is on sale in the building for $59m through Douglas Elliman....
...As Bernstein’s Chirantan Barua noted, the revision had no impact on adjusted profits, which were 7 per cent higher at $5.6bn....
...The duo of Douglas Flint and Stuart Gulliver has had a tumultuous few years at the top of HSBC....
...Douglas Holtz-Eakin, the president of the American Action Forum and a former adviser to John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign, said he remained concerned that gross domestic product growth of about 2...
...Chirantan Barua, an analyst at Bernstein in London, said the move “should be enough [to] allow the bank to maintain the dividend next year out of capital even as earnings decline”....
...Instead, Kirk Douglas snarls and sneers as newsman Chuck Tatum, marooned in Albuquerque after disgraces back in New York. Salvation arrives when a local man is caught in a collapsed desert cave....
...WhiteWave’s investor base includes former JPMorgan dealmakers Douglas Braunstein and James Woolery, who run Hudson Executive Capital, an activist fund....
...Chairman Douglas Flint sometimes uses results as an opportunity to grumble about regulation....
...Chirantan Barua, an analyst at Bernstein, described the US capital release as a complete surprise, and estimated that 2017’s buyback could be as high as $3bn....
...Mr Gulliver and Douglas Flint, chairman of HSBC, both stressed that short-term concerns about the volatility of the Chinese stock market and its economic outlook had no effect on its review....
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