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...Graham Norton? Is Graham Norton still in the UK on TV? I believe so. Yeah. And there are some reports that his show has been cancelled, and they won't let them on the air after he said this....
...In the US, $9.5bn of credit charges — including loan loss provisions — pushed Wells Fargo to a $2.4bn loss, while profit fell more than 50 per cent at Citi, Bank of America and JPMorgan....
...Dawn Holland: There is limited scope for further stimulus via monetary easing....
...Sales in developed markets were slightly up as volume growth was mostly offset by continued competitive price deflation in Europe and North America....
...The Dow Jones Industrial Average is expected to open above the 22,000 mark for the first time when New York trade starts, with Apple set to help the 30-member benchmark over the line....
...Unilever said performance had been adversely affected by poorer weather in Europe and natural disasters in the Americas....
...strategy of telecoms and content: owning and creating content such as sports rights, news channels and entertainment, that it can distribute through its telecoms infrastructure to its mobile and fixed-line...
...An acquisition of Kirin’s lossmaking beer business would increase Heineken’s share of the Brazil market from 7 per cent to 17 per cent — in line with its strategy of being the biggest or second-biggest in...
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...(WaPo) 13% v 32% Clinton’s advantage with voters aged 18-24 compared to Obama’s net approval rating with that group, underscoring her trouble energising young people....
...Illustration by Graham Roumieu...
...In line with the code of conduct and compliance policies of the NLFI, Mr Enthoven reported his acceptance of the invitation at that time....
...Musk’s Tesla, for example, is launching a new line of batteries called the Powerwall, to be built at its new “Gigafactory” in north Nevada. There may be bigger breakthroughs to come....
...“I thought we’d be watching from the side lines. But we were in the thick of it, being filmed.”...
...Underlying earnings in the quarter rose 29 per cent year-on-year to €447m, in line with analysts’ consensus expectations....
...Randstad took a goodwill impairment of €140m on its British and Iberian divisions, saying revenues had declined and profitability had “not recovered in line with expectations”....
...The results were in line with analysts’ expectations. Shares in Ahold rose 0.67 per cent at €10.57 in Amsterdam, against a 0.67 per cent gain in the AEX index....
...Mr Wynaendts added: “You need have the courage to withdraw product lines, just say we stop selling these products. In this low interest rate environment it just doesn’t work.”...
...Goldman Sachs advised TNT and Lazard advised its advisory board, while Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley and UBS advised UPS....
...Would SNS publish accounts with a line item “interest and principal not paid”?...
...But just as cinema’s parameters aren’t set by Police Academy V, nor should rap be defined solely by its lowest common denominator....
...Net sales in the fourth quarter were in line with the €7.3bn the company released in a trading update in January....
...Beckmann painted this in America when de Kooning was already working on his “Woman” series. Munich unfurls such connections with a light touch and some distinctive perspectives....
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