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...The US consumer products giant says it sources “palm oil materials” from a wholesaler that buys in turn from the unit, Astra Agro Lestari....
...Fuel m/m; est. 0.2% (prior 0.2%)0930 UK April Retail Sales Inc Auto Fuel m/m; est.0.4% (prior -0.5%)1100 UK CBI Industrial trends Source: Bloomberg In the US, there are weekly jobless claims figures and...
...The fact that both wholesaler and retailer business confidence dipped back below the critical level of 50, in our view, reflects a somewhat more tentative outlook for the demand side of the economy which...
...Its most popular titles include Halo 3, Grand Theft Auto and Mario Kart – these blockbuster games sold so well in the first half of last year that results from this year are paling in comparison....
...Inventories of wholesalers fell by 1.1 per cent in October and falling sales resulted in an inventories-to-sales ratio of 1.34, the highest level since 2002....
...Dealers said Rexel, the French electrical equipment wholesaler, was a possible buyer. An offer of €4 a share would value Hagemeyer at €2.7bn (including debt)....
...Porsche led the auto sector up, rising by 6 per cent to €1580 with Renault of France gaining 4.4 per cent to €106.08 while Peugeot rose 1.24 per cent to €56.60....
...The efforts of Japan Inc to raise its defences also seem hypocritical, coming as they do at a time when takeover activity by Japanese companies abroad is on the rise....
...Mahindra, the $4.5bn Indian group best known as an auto manufacturer, Wednesday became the latest company to announce a retail venture there....
...This week’s spike in crude prices did not help the embattled auto sector....
...Porsche rose 1.6 per cent to €634.50 after analysts at CSFB said the German luxury carmaker looked cheap, not just against the auto sector but against the European market as a whole....
...Alfresa, a drug wholesaler, dropped 4.7 per cent to Y3,900 after UBS lowered its recommendation on the company’s shares from “buy” to “neutral”....
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