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...BUY: DFS Furniture (DFS) The sofa retailer’s results were not inspiring, but the market has been overly harsh, writes Mitchell Labiak....
...HOLD: Synthomer (SYNT) There are some green shoots starting to emerge, but recovery is an uphill struggle, writes Jennifer Johnson....
...The FTSE 100 housebuilder is a shrewd operator even when the market is sluggish, writes Mitchell Labiak....
...More US politics news: Defence secretary Lloyd Austin remained in hospital yesterday as he faced criticism for concealing his medical condition, even from US President Joe Biden. 3....
...Jennifer Kim’s Janet deftly suggests how conflicted she is between her desire for independence and her affection for her parents; Miles Mitchell nimbly plays a series of customers, each with an ulterior...
Retailer expects to make £1bn profit for the first time next year
...The Pentagon said two destroyers — the USS Oscar Austin and USS Philippine Sea — and the USS Carter Hall, a ship with a landing dock, were engaged in a retrieval operation off the coast of South Carolina...
...Begonia Jennifer Wilson has huge flowers of salmon pink which I would not choose in their own right, but they also have a lemon scent at close quarters....
...HOLD: Johnson Service Group (JSG) Margins and volumes are nearly back to normal — but inflation is difficult to contain, writes Jennifer Johnson....
...Tosh Wanogho-Maud and Mitchell Zhangazha are terrific and charismatic as David Ruffin and Eddie Kendricks....
...The changes have not impressed Jennifer Mitchell, who now campaigns to boost awareness of the dangers posed by social media since her son’s death....
...What else we’re reading Elon Musk has Lunch with the FT At Musk’s favourite Mexican restaurant, Fonda San Miguel in Austin, Texas, the Tesla chief talks to FT editor Roula Khalaf about moving to Mars, saving...
...US-Philippine talks US defence secretary Lloyd Austin and Philippine counterpart Jose Faustino Jr will join bilateral military co-ordination talks in Hawaii, the first time such senior figures have participated...
...US, secretary of state Antony Blinken, defence secretary Lloyd Austin and commerce secretary Gina Raimondo to testify at Senate appropriations committee hearing on the US-China relationship....
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...Mitchell Harris, Sunapee, New Hampshire “It’s a slippery slope if we start letting China or any other country influence our relations with other countries.”...
...Xi Jinping completes grip on power Xi finally has something that eluded him for almost a decade, explains Tom Mitchell in Singapore in this insightful article: a trusted confidante at the top of China’s...
...Many, like him, are based in Austin, since “he likes having his children around. But it’s not a Norman Rockwell painting.” Do the mothers get on? “Not with each other,” Isaacson jokes....
...Instead the Xi administration has imbued the visit with more importance than it deserves, writes Tom Mitchell. Thanks for all your replies to my question yesterday....
...The suburbs around the big metro areas of Austin, Houston, Dallas and San Antonio have soaked up most of the new arrivals and that is where the fight for the future of the state is playing out....
...Additional reporting by Tom Mitchell in Singapore and Jennifer Creery and Andy Lin in Hong Kong...
...Jennifer Lind, an Asia security expert at Dartmouth College, says the Biden administration “scores highly on tactics” but that its focus on the war raging in Europe has the potential to become an obstacle...
...The day ahead US defence chief in Germany Lloyd Austin will host a meeting of Nato counterparts in Ramstein, Germany....
...pledged to resume diplomatic operations in Ukraine and offered the country more than $322mn in military funding after a stealth trip to Kyiv by secretary of state Antony Blinken and defence secretary Lloyd Austin...
...more than a century ago, Pittsburgh finished 15th in the inaugural FT and Nikkei Investing in America ranking of the best US cities for overseas businesses, wedged on the list between the hip and techie Austin...
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