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...“We need to refocus on slowing the spread but this time we want to do it without closing down Texas again,” Mr Abbott said on Thursday....
...Back to the crosswords The following people are winners of the Monday and Saturday puzzles Crossword 16,425: Bill Stewart, Leicester; R Harpur, Herefordshire; Martyn Abbott, Lincolnshire Polymath 1,065...
...Jeffrey Gundlach, the influential bond investor and founder of DoubleLine Capital, said he believed rates had already bottomed. “This has been an incredibly powerful interest rate move,” he said....
...Letters in response to this editorial: Your advice applies to every audit committee / From Jeffrey Ridley Joint audits would help small firms on their way / From Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts...
...The assets form part of the country’s planned A$100bn privatisation effort unveiled by the Abbott government in February....
...Jeffrey Archer Lord Archer named the volumes of his trilogy Hell (2003), Purgatory (2004) and Heaven (2005) after Dante’s Divine Comedy, documenting his stays at three UK prisons....
...Jeffrey Vickers, photographer. Keith Wainwright, hairdresser. Peter Walker, former cricketer. Howard Webb, Premier League football referee....
...Henry Paulson’s son wants one, so does Jeffrey Mallett, the former president of internet giant Yahoo....
...Still, Jeffrey Kleintop, chief market strategist at LPL Financial Services, warned: “It is a passing thing....
...[In other planned deals, GE suffered a reverse, however, with a proposal to buy two in vitro testing divisions of Abbott Laboratories in January this year for $8.1bn....
...The increased buyback is partly designed to compensate shareholders for this week’s surprise collapse of GE’s $8bn takeover of the diagnostics unit of Abbott Laboratories....
...Jeffrey Immelt, GE’s boss, can claim some credit for bringing more focus to a far-flung empire....
...The string of deals is a sign that Jeffrey Immelt, chairman and chief executive, believes GE’s traditional focus on organic growth is not enough to boost a share price that has underperformed the market...
...Jeffrey Immelt, General Electric’s chief executive, has indicated that the US group will steer clear of large takeovers or divestments in the near term following Monday’s $11.6bn (€8.6bn) sale of its plastics...
...Its demise was a jolt to Pfizer’s pride, financial outlook and its new chief executive Jeffrey Kindler....
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