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...The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, which represents the upstream oil and gas sector, yesterday said the country’s industry will spend C$40bn ($29bn) this year....
...It’s also one of the only places to still enjoy p’tcha (jellied calves’ feet), but interested parties should call in advance to confirm availability....
...It also compares to listed peers such as Rathbones on c.15x P/E and SJP (a higher quality business in our view) on c.19x P/E....
...In China, Ms Liu said Airwallex was stepping up sales efforts in its Shenzhen office and was “seeing a lot of growth” in the region’s Greater Bay Area....
...“I just thought holy c**p. We live in 2018 and people are still commenting this.” To recruit more women is “absolutely the right thing to do”, he says, but he has practical reasons for the initiative....
...In Asia Pacific equities, futures tip Sydney’s S&P/ASX 200 index to dip 0.2 per cent at the open, while Tokyo’s Topix is set to climb 0.6 per cent and Hong Kong’s Hang Seng is expected to rise 0.3 per cent...
...That’s a 21 per cent improvement on the prior year And McCarthy & Stone was able to open 52 new sales outlets during the year, leaving it confident of delivering a further c.80 new sales releases in FY18...
...According to J.P....
...“Big Tech and Silicon Valley have been among the most politically insulated sectors in the S&P 500, while financials and energy have been among the most closely scrutinised....
...C restaurant (short for “Pearls and Chiffon”)....
...Tightened underwriting is to bring the loss ratio in its core P&C unit to the key 60 per cent threshold....
...The S&P has leapt about 4.7 per cent since Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election a month ago....
...“I will be having a general news conference on JANUARY ELEVENTH in N.Y.C. Thank you.”...
...Growing up on the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland, I have an ‘aquadiction’ and the mere sight of a river or ocean makes me feel at peace....
...As Credit Suisse put it, Hudson’s Bay “is about real estate until it becomes about retail again”. Since its IPO, Hudson’s shares are up 60 per cent, which is ahead of the S&P 500 but not by much....
...The non-voting C shares will trade under the existing ticker GOOG, while the reduced-vote A stock will take on a new symbol, GOOGL, with both remaining in the S&P 500....
...Peer Macy’s rose 1.77 per cent to $58.07 while Hudson’s Bay was up 0.97 per cent at C$17.62....
...Also, surely the thing that matters in this case is to supply a preponderance of evidence that investors couldn’t not use S&P’s ratings in their investment decisions, that S&P knew this, and that it knew...
...“At a time of an increasingly partisan environment, what I find hopeful is that this game forces everyone round the table to work together,” Kip Harkness, a San Jose official observes....
...The benchmark S&P 500 stock index hit record highs yesterday after strong jobs data....
...● P.S. The thought that figs and plums might be popped into the cooking a few minutes before the pears and quinces are done is a pleasant one. …………………………………………………………….....
...C&W Worldwide jumped 44.5 per cent to 28½p after Vodafone confirmed it was in the “very early stages of evaluating the merits of a potential offer”....
...David Blitzer, chairman of the S&P’s index committee, said that “any chance of a sustained recovery will probably need a stronger economy”....
...The use of celebrities by P&G caused another spat....
...2008 (LOC: Allied Irish Banks, p.l.c.)....
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