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...American Express beat profit estimates in its latest quarterly earnings as its affluent card holders continued to spend, but warned of growing credit losses....
...Even credit card companies are jumping in, with American Express offering $250 to new current account customers....
...That is more than the $14.33 in diluted EPS that FedEx generated for the fiscal year that ended last May. FedEx plans to combine its two main delivery networks....
...This is not the first time the EP is in the limelight for alleged corruption....
...In a letter to EP president Roberta Metsola seen by Europe Express, von der Leyen offered to set up a “contact group” with MEPs “to share information and deepen dialogue on the energy crisis response”....
...Good morning and welcome to Europe Express. Russia yesterday threatened to lower gas flows to western Europe via Ukraine, adding to the gloomy outlook for the winter....
...Good morning and welcome to Europe Express....
...We will have more on FT.com later and in tomorrow’s Europe Express....
...Sassoli, a former Italian TV journalist, is likely to stand for a second-term, according to EP insiders....
...Apple’s quarterly EPS are projected to land at $1.89, up from $1.68 on sales of $119bn....
...His second project, a still-untitled EP, is due in February, according to Kuti’s manager. The goal, he says, is to be a great musician who was also a Kuti and not just another great Kuti musician....
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...EP president David Sassoli has warned the Chinese action will have “consequences”....
...asks Marina Allen on her debut release, somewhere between a long EP and a short album, “listening to Hejira through a blown-out freedom scheme?”...
...There would be another four “observers”, likely to include the EP’s Greens and Eurosceptics, and some civil society groups....
...The EP also has a binding say over the appointments currently under consideration....
...The EP is already on board, officials said, leading to hopes that a joint agreement over the conference could be thrashed out soon....
...David Sassoli, president of the EP, told La Repubblica a few days ago that debt forgiveness was “an interesting working hypothesis, to be reconciled with the cardinal principle of debt sustainability”....
...Johan Van Overtveldt, head of the EP’s budget committee, told the Brussels Briefing that the German proposal wouldn’t fly until MEPs had cast-iron guarantees that the promised money was “fresh cash” and...
...The EP, meanwhile, has also rejected imposing a 30 per cent emissions-reduction target on farmers for 2027....
...David Sassoli, the centre-left president of the EP, will convene a meeting on Wednesday with the three heads of the main political groups to find a candidate they can rally behind....
...In a letter to the German presidency sent on Tuesday, Johan van Overtveldt, the EP’s chief negotiator, demanded the additional €39bn and warned that MEPs would not be appeased by any budgetary “tricks”....
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