Hints and tips:
...“I can write my own narrative as I’m playing.”...
...M&S’s contract with HSBC, which owns M&S Bank, is up for renewal. M&S is likely to push for more control and a bigger cut of the spoils....
...She contributed $4mn towards RFK’s Super Bowl advertisement earlier this year in which he outraged his family by likening himself to his uncle, John F Kennedy....
...“M&S has a history of overpromising and underdelivering.” The strong performance from Tesco and M&S comes a day after rival J Sainsbury disappointed investors with weak general merchandise sales....
...If you have any exposure to the S&P 500, then the S&P 500, the biggest index on the planet, is dominated by these names. Claer Barrett Even global indices. Katie Martin Even the global indices....
...Waitrose is only slightly ahead of M&S in the grocery market, with a 3.6 per cent market share this month versus the latter’s 3.4 per cent, according to data provider NIQ....
...Crackling with asterisks, untitled f*ck m*ss s**gon play is a suitably sparky title for a show that’s like a lit stick of dynamite....
...And finally To the Young Vic theatre for Kimber Lee’s untitled f*ck m*ss s**gon play, a blazingly satirical drama about the prejudice and casual stereotyping that so many British east Asian and south-east...
...“I would venture that half the enterprise value of our single bond ETFs is in the tickers,” said Alexander Morris, president and chief investment officer of F/m Investments....
...The jumbotron above her flashed the words: “Who the F is Jenny Lewis?”...
...By dropping the ESG ratings now, maybe S&P is saying “the ratings really are not that useful,” said David F. Larcker, a professor at Stanford’s graduate school of business....
...Chart of the day The S&P 500 rose 3.1 per cent in July after closing up 0.2 per cent yesterday at 4,588.96....
...The battle for Middle England John Lewis and M&S are courting the same middle-class customers. They are having differing levels of success, the FT’s Laura Onita writes....
.../ From J F Siebert, Shetland, UK...
...Here’s what else I’m keeping tabs on today: Economic data: S&P Global will release its flash manufacturing and services purchasing managers’ indices for September....
...My column this week looks at 2024’s potential Ralph Nader election spoiler: Robert F Kennedy Jr, who this week made an obscure pick as his third party running mate — Nicole Shanahan, the wealthy ex-wife...
...Meanwhile on the stage, Stephen Sondheim’s Pacific Overtures and Kimber Lee’s satirical untitled f*ck m*ss s**gon play exemplify a more critical or contested perspective on postwar Asian narratives....
...P-I-M-F-A. Claer Barrett Write this down, people. Moira O’Neill They show you what wealth managers in the City, what types of asset allocations they’re doing for their client....
...“It’s true that things cannot be the same, but I think it will be difficult to assume that this would lead to fundamental change,” said Mamoru Nishiyama, a marketing expert and associate professor at J.F...
...And I’m lucky — I see more and more people eating from the trash,” said Muñoz, who is running for a seat on the town council. “It’s become common to call Argentina ‘a shitty country’....
...It’s also one of the qualities in untitled f*ck m*ss s**gon play that appeals to her....
...His dry sense of absurdity gave an intelligent topspin to works such as 1974’s Primate (about sometimes ridiculous experiments on monkeys and apes) and 1979’s Manoeuvre (about Nato war games, make-believe...
...Every year I thank Santa for a fridge full of cooked meat and veg (and M&S trifle), which I “ready steady cook” into exciting new dishes, from Cajun rice stew to ham and sauerkraut croques....
...A rare bit of M&A to create the UK’s leading housebuilder and new data showing property prices continuing to rise offer new hope for a sector that has been badly hit by higher mortgage rates....
...You’ve done a book on the New Deal, you’re doing a book on John F Kennedy....
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