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...After a career filming in the US, the French-produced Passages is Sachs’s second European feature, after 2019’s Portuguese-shot Frankie, which starred Isabelle Huppert....
...Gold bars, Bentleys, Hermès handbags, wads of cash, luxury apartments, a daring escape attempt and a police investigation that has captured global attention . . . the S$1.8bn money-laundering case gripping...
...Certainly, Channel 4’s decision to air the two-part Andrew: The Problem Prince, about Prince Andrew’s car-crash 2019 interview with Emily Maitlis, either side of the coronation seems mischievous, to say...
...It’s got a lot in its DNA to recommend it: founded by Gwenn and Mark Snider (who’ve long made lots of stylish travellers happy at the Winnetu on Martha’s Vineyard and The Nantucket Hotel), with interiors...
...In 1979’s Winter of Discontent, journalist Allie Burns is trying to nail a scoop that will establish her in the sexist male newsroom....
...His new album, Surrounded By Time, is his fourth in the past decade to be produced by Ethan Johns, the latest in a run of grave, serious records since 2010’s Praise & Blame that have separated him from his...
...The Restaurant Group, which owns chains including Wagamama and Frankie & Benny’s, reported higher cash burn during England’s second lockdown....
...Shutting down a large number of Frankie & Benny's and Chiquitos should benefit shareholders almost as much as diners, they argue: Our view: COVID-19 has been a catalyst for RTN to accelerate its 5-year...
...Here’s the rarest of things, a good tweet: Jamie’s already done a colourful and entertaining trawl through the dreg ends of the Great Flight-to-S***e Rally of 2020, which has seen apparently worthless stocks...
...Ben Snider, senior US equity strategist at the bank, notes, though, that history may not be a useful guide for S&P 500 performance this time because of the “unusual” political and fiscal environment....
...● Peel Hunt upgraded Restaurant Group to “hold” from “reduce” in response to the stock’s decline this week, which followed the Frankie & Benny’s owner agreeing to buy noodle chain Wagamama....
...On her many flights from New York she served Milton Berle; Frankie Avalon — “of course, a crush of mine”; and, on a nonstop “to the coast”, ie, Los Angeles, none other than Kirk Douglas....
...Peel Hunt analysts note that, with consumer confidence falling markedly, Restaurant Group has had to offer 50 per cent off mains at its core Frankie & Benny’s, Coast to Coast and Chiquito outlets....
...That in turn could weigh on aerospace and defence stocks that have outperformed the S&P 500 since the elections....
...The timing of this announcement may also lead to speculation that a turnaround in the core business is still a long way off.”Liberum ● ConvaTec was the FTSE 250’s sharpest faller after warning that a $150m...
...“For US equities in aggregate, rising borrowing costs pose only a modest headwind, and we expect S&P 500 return on equity will nonetheless climb this year to the highest level since 2007,” said Ben Snider...
...● Pandora of Denmark was the Stoxx 600’s biggest gainer on market speculation that the jewellery maker was looking to draw up a strategy in response to potential takeover interest....
...The market swoon continued on Monday with the S&P 500 stock index falling by another 1 per cent. IBM itself fell 5 per cent and is down more than 20 per cent for the year....
...Cat Power and Karen Elson swung it smartly Sapphic in 2008 while Madonna gave it a melodramatic S&M twist on her 2012 MDMA tour....
...After 2015’s breathtakingly assured Spill Simmer Falter Wither, expectations were high for Sara Baume’s second novel — but A Line Made By Walking is not at all what one might have expected her to write next...
...Peel Hunt, cutting Restaurant Group to “hold”, saw continued risk to forecasts as the Frankie & Benny’s owner begins a round of “immediate and painful” price cuts to encourage repeat visitors....
...Restaurant Group, the troubled FTSE 250 company behind chains such as Garfunkel’s and Frankie & Benny’s, said it is making progress with turnround efforts but sales continued to slide at the start of this...
...are on pace to lag [behind] the broad market index for the eighth straight year”, Goldman Sachs strategists led by Ben Snider wrote in a note....
...In the US overnight, the S&P500 and Nasdaq closed at new all-time highs, with the S&P ending at 2,280, up 0.7 per cent on the day....
...In January, its shares fell more than 10 per cent in a single morning after it reported a drop in sales following the removal of popular dishes from the menu of its Frankie & Benny’s diner chain....
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