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...Two things to start: Canadian convenience store group Couche-Tard has approached France’s Carrefour about a takeover in a deal that would combine two retail groups jointly worth more than $50bn....
...TV and buoyant demand for Apple’s iPads and Macs, sales of which increased 46 per cent and 29 per cent, respectively....
...The economic calendar for Monday is three parts global, one part local (all times Hong Kong): 11.30: Thailand customs-based imports, exports and trade balance15.00: Japan convenience store sales15.00: Malaysia...
...The economic calendar is coasting to the weekend (all times Hong Kong): 12.00: Malaysia consumer price index15.00: Japan convenience store sales16.00: Taiwan export orders...
...store sales16.00: Taiwan export orders...
...In Tokyo convenience store chain FamilyMart Uni rose as much as 6.7 per cent after it announced it would ally with discount chain store Don Quijote, transferring holdings in its supermarket to the latter...
...Iovine’s knack for spotting winners was evident again a couple of years later in 1981, when he produced Bella Donna, Stevie Nicks’ first solo album outside Fleetwood Mac....
...Today’s economic calendar is light (Hong Kong times) 09.30: Reserve Bank of Australia September meeting minutes09.30: Australia Q2 house price index15.00: Japan August convenience store sales...
...Food deflation, increasingly attractive deli counters at supermarkets and convenience stores, more spending on big-ticket items such as home improvement, and uncertainty around the US election helped drive...
...Here is today’s economic calendar, which is on the light side (Hong Kong times): 08.30: Taiwan July unemployment rate13.00: Japan July supermarket sales15.00: Japan July Convenience store sales16.00: Taiwan...
...sales, convenience store sales16.00: Taiwan April export orders16.20: Taiwan balance of payments current account balance19.30: Sri Lanka central bank policy decision...
...store sales16.00: Taiwan March export orders...
...store sales...
...Shirt, €300; pleather trousers, €590, 56 S Audley Street, London W1, 020 7408 7050 8 The pac-a-mac gets a serious upgrade, courtesy of Terra New York....
...It also sold off its network of gas stations and convenience stores to Marathon Petroleum last year for $2.87bn....
...analyst at S&P Capital IQ....
...The data did little to bolster US equities as signs of fatigue began to show following five successive record closing highs for the S&P 500....
...Analysts at Oppenheimer boosted their profit outlook and share price target for the Mac computer, iPod and iPhone manufacturer....
...The S&P financials sector rose 1.7 per cent....
...Fannie Mae fell 4.9 per cent to $27.63 while Freddie Mac was 2.2 per cent lower at $25.43....
...Economists fear consumers hit by declining house prices and rising mortgage payments will start to spend less in US stores....
...Freddie Mac, the government-sponsored mortgage agency, was down 2.8 per cent at $26 having plummeted 28.7 per cent the previous day....
...s third largest supermarket group said it had sold Bi-Lo and Bruno, two US convenience store chains, to Texas-based Lone Star Funds, for $560m plus an additional $100m if certain targets are met in the next...
...s chains, its two US convenience store chains, to a private equity group by the end of the year. The stores, which analysts value at ?700m to ?...
...stores....
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