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...Wall Street’s benchmark S&P 500 closed 1.2 per cent higher. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite rose by the same amount, marking a six-session winning streak....
...Having overshared in three and a half hours of anti-lockdown protests and green-inked screeds about government mind control on 2021’s Latest Record Project, Volume 1 and 2022’s What’s It Gonna Take?...
...In equities, the S&P 500 share index fell 0.4 per cent....
...“I was listening to my mom’s Motown, Curtis Mayfield, Al Green, Isaac Hayes, Natalie Cole and Aretha Franklin LPs. To me, those artists were some of the very first rappers....
...In the liner notes to The First National Band’s debut album, he cited Hank Williams, Jerry Lee Lewis and Jimmie Rodgers as influences for their “pure approach to what they have sung and written — free from...
...Curtis Mayfield’s film-soundtrack dispatch from the streets of black America, Super Fly, came out six months later. What would soon become known as krautrock took shape with Neu!’...
...“It’s still hard to argue with the ‘just keep buying stocks’ theme”, said Ross Mayfield, strategist at RW Baird. “Given where interest rates still are.”...
...His great frenemy Rod Stewart might hold the record for oldest male singer to top the UK album charts, for 2019’s You’re In My Heart, a record currently beyond Elton’s reach....
...“The timing of this move in Treasuries is strange,” said Ross Mayfield, US investment strategist at RW Baird....
...But Ross Mayfield, investment strategist at RW Baird, said equity markets were likely to remain sensitive to bad news about infection rates and the progress of vaccination drives....
...The album title comes from a song by Jimmie Rodgers, “My Rough and Rowdy Ways”....
...I was also obsessed with Country and American singers: Bob Dylan, Townes Van Zandt, Jimmie Dale Gilmore. All these elements seemed to represent and make a character of my father.”...
...In Hitchcock’s Vertigo (1958), its oneiric landscape made sense — just about — of a deranged story of erotic obsession; in 1968’s jazzy police thriller Bullitt, a roller-coaster car chase through its streets...
...“It is too soon to speak of improvement in the market for big-ticket items,” said John Lewis chairman Charlie Mayfield. “We are not expecting any favours from the trading environment at all.”...
...That should be reversed in its full-year figures but the partnership’s profit before exceptionals will be “significantly lower than last year”, outgoing chairman Charlie Mayfield said....
...For all its challenges, John Lewis is ahead of peers such as M&S, Debenhams and House of Fraser in many areas....
...Its chairman, Charlie Mayfield, reiterated that profits would be substantially lower this year partly because of heavy investment in IT....
...Charlie Mayfield, John Lewis chairman, said: “Two main factors are affecting the retail sector — oversupply of physical space and relatively weak consumer demand.”...
...Total UK sales were down 2.7 per cent, reflecting M&S’s ongoing restructuring and store closure programme....
...Food sales — previously a highlight for M&S — were slightly better than expected following price cutting but were still down 2.1 per cent....
...Forwarded Breeding unicorns 2018 is on pace to break 2017's record for "unicorn" funding....
...“2017 was a challenging year”, chief executive Sir Charlie Mayfield acknowledged on Thursday....
...But Sir Charlie Mayfield, chairman, warned: “The pressure on margin . . . has intensified because of our choice to maintain competitive prices . . ....
...Chairman Sir Charlie Mayfield said: “The pressure on margin seen in the first half of the year has intensified because of our choice to maintain competitive prices, despite higher costs mainly due to the...
...Dylan’s own version appears on 2015’s Shadows in the Night, the first of his three albums of Frank Sinatra covers....
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