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...“The evidence suggests that British Columbia’s foreign buyer tax led to lower prices on expensive single-family homes but had little impact elsewhere,” says Thomas Davidoff, director of the Centre for Urban...
...Imperial Brands (disclosed 2015, down 41 per cent)There was a time when the maker of Gauloises and Davidoff cigarettes was considered a defensive investment and a takeover candidate....
...However, Imperial said the results were helped by a 14 per cent increase in underlying revenues from its growth brands such as Davidoff and Gauloises....
...Jonathan Fell, an analyst at Deutsche Bank, said innovations such as cigarette packets which slide open, were persuading consumers to pay a little more to smoke....
...Jonathan Fell at Deutsche Bank said he expected the losses to moderate....
...“If you look at their western European tobacco business, the revenue growth puts them at the top end of their consumer staples peer group,” said Jonathan Fell, an analyst at Deutsche Bank....
...Banks weakened to profit taking, a trend encouraged by Jonathan Pierce, Credit Suisse analyst....
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