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...ConAgra shares rose 3 per cent to $40.80, pushing the gain this year to 12.5 per cent....
...The remaining 12 per cent was bought by Amundi in 2012, as part of a strategic alliance giving Tobam access to the French fund house’s distribution network....
...Although Mr Slim’s América Móvil has pay-TV interests in 12 Latin American countries, Mexico is not one of them....
...In 2011, TCI was up 7.3 per cent, in a year when the average equity hedge fund was down 8 per cent, according to Hedge Fund Research. So far this year it is up 12.5 per cent....
...The expansion comes as competition intensifies in the online video market....
...Strong earnings growth in North America, Africa, Latin America and Asia fuelled a 12 per cent increase in underlying annual profits at SABMiller, the world’s second-largest brewer by sales....
...This was the result of a €10bn ($12.6bn) gamble to expand in Egypt and the Middle East through the acquisition of Orascom Cement....
...Diapers.com’s free shipping offers are matched by CVS and Walgreens, US national drugstores....
...Its balance sheet is also carrying debt from its joint £7.8bn ($12.4b) acquisition of Scottish & Newcastle last year....
...According to the SEC, Kiley and co-conspirator Trevor Cook said they would deposit investors’ funds in separate accounts to trade in foreign currencies, promising annual returns of 10 to 12 per cent....
...The financial sector finished in positive territory as gains in the banking sector outweighed fears over bad debts in the credit card market....
...Albertsons, the supermarket chain that Cerberus bought in a consortium with Supervalu and CVS in 2005, is also looking extremely profitable, thanks in part to early property sales....
...New York Times shares have fallen 33 per cent in the past 12 months....
...There are already 12 Supercenters and five Neighborhood Markets in the area southeast of Phoenix....
...Except of course, to a woman, this bunch look impeccably turned out, and have CVs to die for. There’s Lisa Perry at number one, wife of Richard Perry, who heads the $12.3bn Perry fund....
...Shares in Caremark rose 10.5 per cent to $55.58, CVS fell 1.7 per cent at $30.01 and Express Scripts gained 1.9 per cent to $69.97....
...Coutu’s share’s rose 15 per cent in early Toronto trading to C$12.59, while Rite Aid’s shares slipped almost 4 per cent to $4.50 by midday in New York....
...British Land advanced 1.1 per cent to £15.12 after Alex Pelmore, Merrill Lynch’s top-rated property analyst, highlighted the company as one of his top picks in a sector review....
...The broader S&P 500 gained 0.4 per cent to 1,268.12, while the Nasdaq Composite, powered by a 1.3 per cent rally in the semiconductor sector, rose 0.7 per cent to 2,246.49....
...It started on November 12 in Vigo and finishes in July in Gothenberg after a 30,000 mile trip round the world....
...Enclosed is my CV for your review. I look forward to following up with you when you have more time. Best regards, Alan....
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