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...MARCHJames by Percival Everett (Mantle/Doubleday)How would Huckleberry Finn read if it wasn’t Huck telling the story, but the enslaved African-American Jim?...
...That would have been a struggle against opposition from J O Hambro, which said last month that it held about 9.3 per cent of St Modwen’s shares across its funds and advised accounts....
...However, those with substantial convenience store operations — including Tesco, J Sainsbury and the Co-operative — are less enthusiastic....
...J Sainsbury, too. N26’s announcement, on Tuesday, came a day before Sainsbury’s Bank said its chairman since 2013, Roger Davis, was stepping down....
...The songs, from Bryan Adams and Jim Vallance, create a suitable rock vibe, best suited to belters such as Vivian’s defiant “I Can’t Go Back”....
...It showed boards and managers have invested a total £3.4bn in their trusts....
...Moody’s, the rating agency, expects that the US corporate default rate will edge up to 3.4 per cent by year’s end, from 2.8 per cent at end-2018....
...“We stand ready to respond if cholera appears,” said Renee Funk, CDC’s hurricane incident response manager....
...To call attention to a US fund manager that invests in companies led by women, it placed a 50-inch-high bronze figure called “Fearless Girl” in the middle of the Wall Street financial district — looking...
...Stock screens: The Jim Slater test At the heart of Jim Slater’s investment approach is the price-earnings-growth (PEG) ratio, writes Algy Hall....
...The Burger J prospect, one of up to four wells the energy group had hoped to sink by the end of 2016, yielded only traces of oil and gas....
...Jim Slater memorably said “elephants don’t gallop” but it never seems to stop them trying....
...“That whole movement was kind of a reaction against the increasingly homogenised nature of cities in the US,” says J Kuper, general manager at Kuper Sotheby’s International Realty, “and Austin isn’t like...
...… Karl Ove Knausgaard Author of ‘Boyhood Island: My Struggle Book 3’ (Vintage/Archipelago) The Austrian Peter Handke, no doubt one of the best and most influential authors in European literature of...
...Peter J Conradi is author of ‘A Very English Hero: The Making of Frank Thompson’ (Bloomsbury)...
...Coming in as chief executive is Jim Wong, current corporate president who first joined Acer in 1986....
...Oxford university’s J Doyne Farmer first mixed physics and money at the roulette table....
...“Today’s sell-off is mostly about Greece,” said Andrew Neale, of Fogel Neale Partners, a New York-based wealth manager....
...The late J.B. Hunt was one of his investing partners....
...Yesterday, for instance, the iTraxx Europe widened by nearly 10.7 per cent, while the Crossover moved only 3.36 per cent....
...New construction orders for private housing in the 12 months to October were 3 per cent down on the previous year....
...Jim Chanos, hedge fund manager and noted short seller, said MBIA is one of his largest short positions because his firm always like to bet against “financial alchemy stories”....
...The dealership, owned by Lexus franchisees David Wilson and A.J. D’Amato, opened last year and cost $75m (€51m, £36m) to build....
...In the US, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has rebounded 9 per cent from its low of 12,845.78 in mid-August and is up 12.3 per cent this year....
...For the week, Dow rose 3.2 per cent to $45.88....
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