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...Total group sales were £5.8bn in the six-month period, up 2 per cent year on year, with Waitrose sales up 4 per cent but those at John Lewis down 2 per cent....
...Doctors transferred Austin to the intensive care unit on January 2 and treated him by placing a tube through his nose to drain his stomach....
...“I think Labour should take this incredibly seriously,” said John McTernan, a former Downing Street adviser during Tony Blair’s Labour government....
...Lucy FisherAnd how might Trump 2.0 differ from the first time around if he does get back in?...
...However, John Springford at the Centre for European Reform — best-known for his own work with “doppelgänger” analysis on the impacts of Brexit — finds Goldman’s analysis to be persuasive....
...The Leckford estate, a 2,800-acre farm that also has a water garden as well as fishing and golfing facilities, is not for sale....
...His father, John Sr, also led the bank. John Weinberg’s cousin Peter Weinberg is a Goldman veteran who founded Perella Weinberg Partners....
...For Gaza’s 2.3mn inhabitants, the cost has been devastating....
...The IDF also says it has killed dozens of Hamas’s military commanders, including the group’s deputy head of intelligence Shadi Barud, who planned the October 7 raid....
...The figure is up from 2.4mn in 2022 and 1.7mn in 2021....
...Professor Malcolm Chalmers, deputy director-general at defence think-tank the Royal United Services Institute, said the report was “the most damning I have seen” on the MoD’s equipment plan....
...That’s what financial markets are also pricing In the US, New York Fed president John Williams said the Fed would need to be “confident that inflation is moving toward 2 per cent on a sustained basis” before...
...The four executives are Matt Nord and David Sambur, two senior partners who lead Apollo’s private equity business, as well as John Zito, deputy chief investment officer of credit, and Grant Kvalheim, president...
...According to deputy premier Yulia Svyridenko, the new mechanism will “reduce the cost of grain insurance by approximately 2.5 percentage points”, allowing grain traders to save about $2.8 to $3.9 per ton...
...China’s president Xi Jinping will not attend the G20 summit, sending his deputy and Beijing’s head of economic policy Li Qiang in his place....
...This remains far out of reach — instead emissions are expected to rise another 2 per cent this year....
...Borrowing falls from 4.2% of GDP in 2023-24, to 3.1%, 2.7%, 2.3%, 1.6% and 1.2% in 2028-29. By the end of the forecast, borrowing is at its lowest level of GDP since 2001....
...You just spent 18 months finding John Doe to fill that job gap; you’re not going to rush to fire him in this downturn....
...For a town such as Wrexham in north Wales, the £2mn endowment was equivalent to £1 in every £2,000 of the local economy, he noted....
...Secretary of state John Kerry apologised to Netanyahu after an unnamed US official described the Israeli premier as a myopic, pompous “chicken shit”....
...What the political editor tweets to a specialised political audience of an evening shapes what people hear over their cornflakes on Radio 2 or Radio 3....
...Timms will take over from Neal Wolin, former deputy secretary of the US Treasury....
...John Springford, deputy director of the Centre for European Reform think-tank, said it was “worth remembering” that the ONS had previously revised 2020 GDP down by 1.7 percentage points in changes last year...
...At the heart of the dilemma for John Lewis is its unusual partnership structure whereby it is also owned by those 74,000 employees — vaunted a decade ago by former deputy prime minister Nick Clegg as a model...
...Deputy editor Patrick Jenkins explains why you should donate to it this year. Additional contributions from Tee Zhuo and Benjamin Wilhelm...
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