Hints and tips:
...I saw few foreign faces, and few shops, except international brands in big shopping malls, would accept Visa or Mastercard payment....
...A: The Union Jack Which animal lent its name to a European exchange rate band? A: The snake The Federal Reserve Economic Database, aka FRED, is one of the world’s best-known economic databases....
...Jack Kerouac’s road trip is one of literature’s finest acknowledgements of the car in culture....
...The ban, announced by chief executive Jack Dorsey, will also encompass paid tweets from party candidates....
...“Department stores have been particularly hard hit by chronic mall-based traffic declines coupled with intense competition,” he said....
...The ecommerce group benefited as hundreds of millions of Chinese turned to shopping from their smartphones rather than going to malls....
...But Jack Dorsey, founder and chief executive, said he entered 2019 in “confident” mood. (FT) Pessimism from the auto industry . . ....
...Jack Fitzgerald, the founder of Fitzgerald Auto Malls, who has been in business for 50 years, says sales are up “dramatically”....
...I admit some of these will lose something, but that’s auto-tainment. robert.shrimsley@ft.com; Twitter: @robertshrimsley Illustration by Lucas Varela...
...More than 40,000 books have been written about President John Fitzgerald Kennedy since he was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, 50 years ago....
...The United Auto Workers retirees outnumber the active union members nearly four to one....
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