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...“It’s the dollar losing utility as an asset to store trade surpluses,” says John Hathaway, managing partner of Sprott Inc, a Canadian asset manager specialising in metals....
...Packages containing the artifacts were shipped to Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc....
...Corporate activism is far more popular among Democrats than Republicans (among the few memorable examples of any rightwing activism were arts and crafts store Hobby Lobby’s fight against mandatory birth...
...Similarly, Tesla Motors, the electric carmaker, sees placing its stores in “high-visibility” locations such as shopping centres as helping to normalise electric cars....
...(WSJ) David Jones has agreed a A$2.15bn (US$2bn) takeover by South African retailer Woolworths, which trumps a merger approach from rival Australian department store group Myer....
...There is also a ragbag of smaller operations, from See’s Candies to a Midwestern furniture-store chain. GE has been acquiring businesses since before Mr Buffett was born. (A while – he is 83.)...
...While founder Nick Hart enjoyed a coffee break in the restaurant, Oscar nominee Cate Blanchett and actors Mark Ruffalo and Jodie Foster wandered in and out; Blanchett’s young sons in the hotel lobby added...
...It slows you down, and you don’t react quickly enough to things you know are happening around you,” says Mr Jones....
...Jones is watching the sales and licence dispute with interest....
...“It still has the hobby label,” says Cook....
...In other earnings news, Ross Stores, operator of discount apparel retail stores, met analysts’ expectations, as profits for the third quarter rose 11 per cent on higher sales and improved margins....
...He went into a pet store in Michigan and tried to buy one. But the store owner felt he was not old enough to own one. So the young Ito took a job at the store, cleaning 90 fish tanks every day....
...Marvel and DC, the US’s two main comics publishers, have long had trouble shaking their popular image as primary-coloured zap-pow-whop stuff, good fun for kids but a dubious hobby for adults....
...The store manager is Erik Fredricks, a skinny 37-year-old who wears a Smith & Wesson .357 revolver on his hip....
...I bought a V-neck Kali Roar dress by Rohit Gandhi and Rahul Khanna that was crafted from a black-and-white psychedelic fabric with a metallic belt....
...The Dow Jones industrial average rose 0.4 per cent to 12,262.89....
...It plans to expand its network to 18 stores in China in the next two years, 10 stores in Russia from six currently, and eight in the Middle East from three....
...But they also cautioned that there may not be a simple V-shaped recovery....
...He was hoping for government funding so he could work on his little hobby during the day....
...Most Religious David Green, 64 $2bn, Hobby Lobby Oklahoma City The chief executive of Hobby Lobby arts and craft stores told a Christian website: “There is no success outside of success with the Lord...
...You accept that shopping malls and hotel lobbies are connected by walkways, making it difficult to discern where one ends and the other begins....
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