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...And as Deutsche Bank’s Matthew Luzzetti pointed out last week, much of the recent decline in the quits rate comes down to one sector: professional services....
...Like Bermingham, Giles Darby was one of the NatWest Three bankers....
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...“Don’t short the S&P 500,” says Sean Darby, chief global equity strategist at Jefferies: We have had a number of questions about the level of US real rates that the equity market can survive....
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...“Ten years ago, if you headed down to London Fields, you’d get rushed,” DJ Darby adds, referring to muggings in a nearby park. “Now you get, like, a latte.”...
...Allied made the cookers at the site once occupied by Abraham Darby, the iron master who first cast iron with coking coal in the 1700s....
...“We request North Korea pardon Matthew Miller and Kenneth Bae and grant them amnesty and immediate release so they may reunite with their families,” said Darby Holladay, a spokesman for the US state department...
...California Chrome has already won the Kentucky Derby (the Durby as opposed to the Darby) and the Preakness Stakes and is hot favourite for the third leg. There is no racing royalty involved here....
...Mr Darby is candid about the challenges he faces. “We had been spending less capital and were too aggressive on price increases, which have caused us to lose market share,” says Mr Darby....
...Matthew Tehmeh, a superintendent at Firestone’s rubber plantation, cuts a sliver of bark about a 16th of an inch wide from a tree....
...Various starting dates and places could be claimed, such as Abraham Darby’s use of coke to fuel blast furnaces in 1709 in Shropshire, Thomas Newcomen’s invention of the atmospheric steam engine in Devon...
...The leader, who is raising money for 26 different causes (I said it seemed unfocused) is Amanda Darby, from Bristol. That’s Bristol, England. matthew.engel@ft.com...
...Darby describes how the medical fraternity turned against the foreskin at that time....
...For me, it was important that I could imagine myself working with the people across the table, and with Phil and his colleague, Tom Matthews, I certainly did....
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