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...ONS senior statistician Heather Bovill said online retailers did “particularly well selling outdoor goods and summer clothes, as the sun began to shine”....
...“The truth is that strategic beta has never really set the heather alight in Europe in the same way as it has in the US....
...Why Empires Fall: Rome, America and the Future of the West by Peter Heather and John Rapley (Allen Lane) Western hegemony is in decline....
...Heather Bovill, ONS deputy director for surveys and economic indicators, said the trend for retail sales “is one of decline”....
...On the subject of sweaters, there’s an excellent Sebastian Flyte-infused appeal about the periwinkle, powder pink and heather jumpers from Californian knitwear brand The Elder Statesman (£695, mrporter.com...
...Sharratt, Midlothian Crossword 16,260: Yoganandhini Janarthanan, California; Jon Zigmond, Middlesbrough; Heather Morrey, Sussex Polymath 1,037: Michael Crapper, Whitchurch Crossword 16,254: Richard Heaton...
...“The days of big p*ss-ups are gone.” (FT) Can banks make it big in China?...
...Heather Bresch will retire after eight years as Mylan chief executive when the transaction closes....
...Daffodils (Narcissus spp), winter-flowering heather (Erica carnea) and snowdrops (Galanthus spp.) come into flower as winter turns to spring....
...State department spokesperson Heather Nauert said earlier in the day that a US delegation was in the “truce” village of Panmunjom in the demilitarised zone, where it was holding talks with its North Korean...
...Police named the other victims as 48-year-old Emma Bowden, Richard Cousins’ fiancée, and her daughter Heather Bowden, aged 11....
...“We believe this action was unwarranted and detrimental to the overall relationship between our countries,” said Heather Nauert, state department spokeswoman, in a statement on Thursday, adding the new reductions...
...Meanwhile, Henderson and his partner Heather Kerzner own 37 per cent of Bell Pottinger and may now look to sell those shares to a new investor, according to one person with knowledge of the situation....
...Financial Lehman Brothers market value: $41.4bn (according to data from Howard Silverblatt, senior index analyst at S&P Dow Jones Indicies).S&P 500 closed the year up 13.6 per cent at 1,418.3.US dollar index...
...Heather Self of Pinsent Masons, an international law firm, said more details were expected in the Budget....
...The benchmark S&P 500 was led higher by healthcare stocks, which gained 2 per cent....
...In theory, the worst start to the S&P 500 on record should be disruptive. And activity is indeed down....
...The Shanghai index has fallen by one-third since the start of 2010, a period during which the S&P 500 has risen by more than 50 per cent....
...Overall, US stocks finished at yet another record high as the S&P 500 gained 0.4 per cent to 1,594.29....
...The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 185 points to close at 12,570 while the S&P 500 closed at 1,355, having fallen 1.4 per cent....
...The financial sector of the S&P 500 climbed 1.6 per cent, outperforming all other sectors....
...Heather Dale is a senior reporter on Ignites Europe, a Financial Times publication, where this article first appeared...
...… Tax break Law firm McGrigors has bolstered its ranks by hiring HMRC tax expert Heather Self....
...The oldest and most well-known commodity index, the S&P Goldman Sachs Commodity Index (S&P GSCI), has about $75bn (£51bn, €61bn) of assets tracking it – by far the largest amount for any index....
...In the 20 years after he took over the reins of the Yale endowment in 1985, Mr Swensen delivered a 16.1 per cent annualised return compared with 12.3 per cent for the S&P 500....
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