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...Lex discerned a subtler form of opportunism in quarterly numbers from J Sainsbury this week. The grocer credited rising market share to the success of its Nectar loyalty card....
...Fund manager M&G is to close its £565mn property fund following sustained outflows by UK retail investors looking to get out of the ailing real estate market....
...It has five big divisions (home care, personal care, beauty and wellness, nutrition, and ice cream) each responsible for its overall P&L....
...The Stories She Wears is a six-month programme focusing on teaching practical techniques in local styles, upcycled fashion, traditional textile design and financial literacy. pradagroup.com; unfpa.org G...
...A couple of doors down from Schostal is L. G. R, where Luca Gnecchi Ruscone sells his select line of glasses and sunglasses....
...He cited a campaign, backed by L&G, to persuade J Sainsbury, the supermarket chain, to introduce a “real living wage” for all workers....
...J Junk balls Those terrible looping shots that your opponent hits and you feel that you should hit for winners?...
...WPP signed global deals with Coca-Cola and Google during the period and won assignments from clients including AstraZeneca, L’Oréal and J Sainsbury....
...Last week, BRB was on home turf with a double bill (Carlos Curates: R&J Reimagined), pegged to its revival of Kenneth MacMillan’s Romeo and Juliet....
...Investors last month criticised plans to sell FTSE 250-listed UDG Healthcare to CD&R....
...The late Denis Durantou of Ch L’Église-Clinet was responsible for it and it’s a fine memorial to his skills....
...J Balvin, Maluma, Karol G. The biggest success story has been Bad Bunny. He’s a Puerto Rican rapper whose music is described as part reggaeton, part Latin trap....
...Shaheen ValléeDirector of the Geoeconomics Programme, DGAP Philipp HeimbergerVienna Institute for International Economic Studies Dirk BezemerProfessor, Faculty of Economics, University of Groningen L...
...Andrew J Oswald: Young economists have not lived through times like these. I am afraid we all learn by painful experience....
...Welsh, London; VW Durham, Cumbria, England; Rowan McKittrick, London Polymath 1,062: Susan J Tzotzos, Austria Crossword 16,401: David Jeffrey, Edinburgh; Michael Capparis, New York; J Morton, Glasgow...
...L&G said there were no defaults and just 0.6% downgraded to high yield (vs market which saw 1.5%). We note L&G has a very high quality corporate bond portfolio with an average rating of single-As....
...G R Steele Emeritus Reader of Economics,Lancaster University Management School, UK...
...That’s bad for J Sainsbury, whose bank has been a white elephant for some time....
...J is for joke — as in, “the joke's on you”. K is for KYC — see “accountability”. L is for Luke Wilson — a humble man using a luxury exit coin to supply fresh water in Africa....
...Sometimes from our investor conversations, GILD internal R&D gets less credit than it probably should....
...But that still falls short of the 3.4 per cent of sales that L’Oréal spends on R&D. Despite Coty’s problems, earlier this year JAB spent $1.75bn to raise its stake from 49 to 60 per cent....
...L&G’s full-year results showed a surprise weakening in solvency, the ratio by which its assets cover liabilities....
...If Debt/GDP is about 1 now (UK-US levels) you can run a primary deficit of (g-r) — where g is growth rate and r is real cost of borrowing — and keep Debt/GDP constant....
...Letters in response to this column: Narrowing the gap / From J M L Stone, London, UK Profit is not guaranteed for private equity funds / From Tim Hames, London, UK...
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