Hints and tips:
...On Tuesday, MPs on the Business and Trade committee will grill Nick Read, Post Office chief executive, and Paul Patterson, chief executive for Europe at Fujitsu, the company that developed the Horizon computer...
...Moreover, some Russian companies are feeling the pressure, as outlined in The Bell, an indispensable online resource for studying economic conditions in Russia: “In its November financial stability review...
...Nikki Haley, who Trump nominated to be US ambassador to the UN, said: “I can tell you that I think he was the right president at the right time. I don’t think he’s the right president now.”...
...(Shareholders are keen that companies don’t regress on the debt front, so leveraging up is less of an option.)...
...“In general, families at the lower end of the income spectrum don’t have any more excess savings and if anything they’re dipping into their savings,” said Gregory Daco, chief economist at EY-Parthenon....
...When Michigan-based cousins Edward Knabusch and Edwin Shoemaker founded The Floral City Furniture Company in 1927, relaxation didn’t have such a bad rep....
...Company earnings Used car retailer CarMax and cruise line operator Carnival will report earnings before the bell. CarMax is expected to report $1.52 in adjusted earnings a share on revenues of $9.1bn....
...I came to sexual maturity at a time when safe abortion was unobtainable in my home state of Michigan, so I planned to sneak across the border into Canada if the need arose (which it never did)....
...As our telephone call draws to a close, DePasquale asks if I would mind if he prayed for me. Not at all, I respond, assuming he means later on, privately....
...Ian Bell, head of home care research at Euromonitor, says the pandemic has not just given rise to a “home hygiene boom” but has spurred innovation....
...“One of the things that disturbs me is that there was a rumour that African-Americans couldn’t catch this,” he said. “Unfortunately we had some people who believed this.”...
...“The FCC has long believed that the big telephone companies could solve this problem, but they don’t consider things like rural electrification co-operatives.”...
...Russ Mould at AJ Bell says the Sox has “traditionally been a good indicator of wider stock market momentum and risk appetite since its launch in summer 1994” as the reliance on semiconductors for a range...
...But claims that vaccines are not kosher, or that they cause autism, have been spread in pamphlets and on telephone hotlines....
...My argument was simple: people on acute daily deadlines don't like being disrupted by loud telephone conversations around them....
...to Michigan prison inmates at rates of up to over $22 for a 15-minute call, in what critics call an extortionate practice on a vulnerable population....
...The companies are likely to push for upgrade work, including wider deployment of fibre connections to replace ageing copper telephone lines....
...This chart, produced by Mr Lapolla at Sixth Man Research, shows how the S&P 500 companies with the lowest effective tax rate, which should thus benefit least from a big tax cut, have fared relative to those...
...LA got 213; Chicago 312; Michigan’s Upper Peninsula 906. Last month I was at a red light at the busy corner of Thurlow and Alberni in Vancouver....
...Larry Bell, founder of Michigan-based Bell’s Brewery, one of the top 10 craft brewers in the US, has also resisted approaches from outside investors....
...“The number of telephone calls you have to dial to complete a single interview has tripled over the last 10 years . . . and that has led to a doubling in cost,” says David Dutwin, chief methodologist at...
...When the boss isn’t consistent, people can’t do their best. Predictability matters at work not just in relation to your boss — but to almost everything....
...The company did not respond to requests for comment. “They have no big SUVs and trucks,” Ms Krebs says. “They’re in the market for small cars and midsize cars that aren’t selling.”...
.../ Can’t I use my wit as a pitchfork / And drive the brute off?”...
...Looking for a silver lining, Pimco said outflows had slowed in subsequent days, but Morningstar, the research company, estimated they were still running at $5.6bn on September 30, setting Total Return up...
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