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...John Ralfe, an independent pensions commentator, said Clara’s announcement was “a start . . . but it needs to do many more deals over the next couple of years, just to pay the wages, and then demonstrate...
...Famously, the blue bloods deposed Purcell in 2005 and re-installed their man John Mack atop the bank....
...“Everyone will blame Covid [for] the losses,” said John Griffin, a professor at the University of Texas....
...The deserters, led by a remarkable man called John Bulkeley, sought to save themselves from being hung by presenting their former captain as an assassin....
...The entire house is cast in concrete, and appears as if honed from a rock face – while the dark, brooding aesthetic, accented by shafts of light that sear through the interior, subverts Barragán’s original...
...“Finding a studio for $500,000 is a challenge in most other New York City neighbourhoods,” says its founder John Walkup. “That’s not the case in Harlem.”...
...In Jonathan Harvey’s telling of the tale, Mother Goose runs an animal sanctuary along with her long-suffering husband Vic (comedian John Bishop, gleefully breaking the fourth wall at every opportunity)....
...“It’s a real challenge when you have to be the two-dollar store,” said John Strong, a professor at the College of William & Mary’s business school....
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...Twenty-five years ago, you might have thought a portfolio containing shares in General Electric and General Motors, ICI, Marks and Spencer, Barclays Bank and Sears Roebuck represented a low-risk, conservative...
...Then, in 1880, Rushton got a letter from George Washington Sears, a trapper and Civil War sharpshooter....
...The Best stores reverberated with Joseph Gandy’s drawings of John Soane’s Bank of England as a ruin, suggesting an institution as durable as the Roman empire....
...But it reckons Sears will stop banks confusing customers with an array of different rates that hinder switching. This could make savers more than £350m a year better off....
...Like its peer Sears, which filed for bankruptcy about 18 months ago, JCPenney’s difficulties began long before the advent of ecommerce....
...John Murray, head of commercial real estate for the Americas at asset manager Pimco, warned the crisis was likely to “permanently erase” large numbers of tenants and the level of distress was such that some...
...john.gapper@ft.com Follow John Gapper with myFT and on Twitter Letters in response to this column: Succumbing to Rémy Martin’s savvy marketing / From John Alexander, Amsterdam, the Netherlands Arnault...
...Later associates would include Sir Philip Green, whose 1999 takeover of department store Sears they backed, and Wafic Saïd, the Syrian-born businessman....
...Mark Cohen, director of retail studies at Columbia University and a former chief executive of Sears Canada, doubted federal loans could resuscitate heavily indebted companies....
...Privately-held groups such as mass-market Sears and luxury chain Barneys New York have been through bankruptcy proceedings in the past year....
...Although her priorities are far from Beaconsfield’s traditional concerns, she is careful to note she opposes the planned High Speed 2 railway, which will sear through the nearby countryside....
...Anthony Grabiner; and former BHS executives Ian Allkins and John Readman....
...This week alone saw privately held John Lewis warn that it may have to axe its staff bonus, Debenhams enter talks with lenders for refinancing and shares in Halfords plummet 25 per cent after a profit warning...
...John McClain, high-yield debt portfolio manager at the investment manager Diamond Hill Capital Management, said the sell-off in these bonds was a sign that “the market is anticipating a liquidation”....
...One example: the case of Sears, the iconic US retailer which went bankrupt last year....
...In the past 10 years, John Maynard Keynes has received fresh appreciation, and Hyman Minsky has been having a moment. I think it’s time for John Kenneth Galbraith to have his....
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