Hints and tips:
...The herbal expert Jekka McVicar’s farm contains about 40 different types of mint: I can correct the problem of supermarket mint by using spearmint from the garden....
...Media will be a strong theme here with results from Fox, News Corp, Disney, Thomson Reuters and The New York Times Company....
...global crop merchant Bunge is to buy competitor Viterra in a $8.2bn cash and shares deal, creating an agricultural behemoth to rival the largest trading houses that move grains, oilseeds and pulses from farm...
...Some good news A British food company has opened what it says is the world’s most advanced vertical farm, using 100 per cent renewable energy to grow crops....
..., S&P Global/Cips UK services PMI UK, the British Retail Consortium publish their monthly footfall monitor for October US, Department of Labor releases statistics including non-farm payroll for October...
...In Delaware, the Fox defamation trial is due to start on Monday....
...The Fox has not always been posh....
...The benchmark S&P 500 fell 1 per cent, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq fell 1.6 per cent....
...Monday EU, December retail sales figures Germany, December factory orders UK, S&P Global/Cips construction purchasing managers’ index (PMI) data Results: Activision Blizzard Q4, Anima FY, JFE Holdings...
...I can’t get there,” Manchin told Fox News on Sunday. “This is a ‘no’ on this legislation.”...
...Vestas’s gross margins have declined from around 20 per cent in the 2017 calendar year, to 11 per cent during the 12 months ending September 30 this year, according to data from S&P Capital IQ....
...In a seasonal resource assessment published in November, Ercot foresaw Texas wind farms operating at between 19 per cent and 43 per cent of rated capacity, providing 6.1GW of power....
...But the 82-year-old is also the longest-serving chief executive of an S&P 500 company, having run Victoria’s Secret’s parent company L Brands since 1963. This can lead to some strange views....
...The index uses derivatives prices to measure expected swings in the S&P 500 over the next 30 days....
...Värde Partners promoted Jon Fox as its new president and Andy Lenk as deputy chief executive....
...L in Hollywood”....
...The days ahead US employment Non-farm payrolls for October are released on Friday and are expected to show that jobs growth slowed in October....
...Chris Coleman, Cheltenham, England; Mark Huggins, Buckinghamshire, England; Neil Woolhouse, Wakefield, England Polymath 1,045: Jane Rowe, Cheshire, England Crossword 16,302: Jennifer Burdon, Paris; Kevin Fox...
...US oil and gas stocks outperformed the S&P 500 on a relative basis through the quarter. So did WTI, despite its horror-show in April....
...account for only 10 per cent of total US non-farm payrolls....
...This reflects the swelling debate across the European continent around so-called “rewilding”, or returning landscapes that have almost entirely been transformed into farms or tree monocultures into a more...
...Refining is a cyclical business, says Rick Joswick, head of S&P Global’s refining analysis. “And this is going to be one of the bad years.” The surplus is extreme....
...The fall in non-farm payrolls in April — the largest drop on record — compared with economists' expectations for a decline of 21.7m....
...Mr Mnuchin confirmed Monday that the farm visit was scrapped at the US’s request....
...Leslie Hook 78....
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