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...J Ann Selzer....
...Debt markets are very open, with record bond issuance in January. So the long-awaited strengthening of contractual protections for lenders may be somewhat . . . cosmetic....
...J Paul HorneAlexandria, VA, US...
...The boss of J Sainsbury said shoppers were starting to splurge on certain items after two years of shopping for bargains, as Britain’s second-biggest supermarket forecast rising profits this year....
...J Wilson Carswell London W12, UK...
...Soumaya Keynes (“Economists are trying to be less male, pale and stale”, Opinion, January 12) reports on the increasing, yet still inadequate, position of women in the economics profession....
...In the UK, Harry Potter publisher Bloomsbury in February raised its profit outlook following strong sales of the latest Maas novel released in January....
...But January had been worse than expected. “People for a week or two after a big occasion tend to be more careful with what they spend,” McDowall said....
...If Christmas is (alas) a time for a materialist blowout, January is often a time for rueful reflection. Should we really have bought all that soon-to-be-landfill for each other?...
...For a show about a group of thugs, none of it really packs a punch. ★★☆☆☆ First three episodes on Paramount+ from January 25....
...Marston’s sales climbed 8.1 per cent in the 16 weeks to January 20, while premium operator Young & Co’s Brewery said managed sales rose 4.7 per cent in the 13 weeks to January 1....
...J&J said in a statement Friday that it disagreed with the ruling and intended to appeal....
...J Sainsbury was among the biggest fallers on the FTSE 100 on Wednesday after strong grocery sales failed to allay concerns over its struggling general merchandise business....
...In parallel, a bipartisan grouping of US senators recently expressed “deep concerns” over the proposed listing in a January letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission....
...Since January, all the main food retailers — including Tesco, J Sainsbury and Asda — have said that store staff will receive at least £12 an hour from April, matching the higher voluntary rate set as a benchmark...
...(Opinion, January 6) John Burn-Murdoch raises some excellent questions about the west being less hopeful about progress and innovation than in years past....
...There is one massive exception to all this: K-pop and J-Pop. In the world of Korean pop, superstardom is very much still in business....
...Forbes’ editor said in 2015 that of the 1,538 Americans who had ever made the list, “not one has been more fixated with his or her net worth estimate … than Donald J Trump”....
...Donald Jr was a trustee of the Donald J Trump Revocable Trust that held most of the company’s assets. Read more here...
...GP & J Baker x Kit Kemp Design Studio Designer and hotelier Kit Kemp’s first collaboration with British fabric and wallpaper house GP & J Baker transmutes her eclectic style into colour-saturated prints...
...And finally… Dry January is finally over, thank heavens. How is January so long? I’m happy to report that Mr Martin makes a mean martini — I guess the clue is in the name....
...Wetherspoon shares have risen by more than 50 per cent this year as trading momentum at the pub chain has piqued the market’s interest, but they are still around 60 per cent down on their pre-pandemic level in January...
...It follows the US Court for Appeals ruling in January that shot down J&J’s attempt to implement a complex bankruptcy scheme called the “Texas-two step” to manage the claims....
...It follows the US Court for Appeals ruling in January which shot down J&J’s attempt to use implement a complex bankruptcy scheme called the “Texas-two step” to manage the claims....
...In January 2022, what became the first YouTube video to reach 10bn views? Which 2015 novel set a new record for time spent at number one in UK fiction hardback bestsellers chart — with 20 weeks?...
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