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...Visitors to the mainland from Hong Kong will only need to isolate for a week....
...The blue-chip S&P 500 share index fell 0.4 per cent on Friday. The information technology sub-index of the S&P 500 fell 1 per cent, taking its loss for the week to 4.7 per cent....
...The prospect has hit stock markets in recent weeks, but the blue-chip S&P 500 rose 0.3 per cent on Wednesday. The index has dropped about 4 per cent from the record high it hit in early September....
...Wall Street was rattled last week by the prospect that a cryptocurrency rout could ripple into other asset classes....
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...RBC went to court in 2015 only to lose and pay for a $100m judgment. The plaintiff's lawyer in that case, Joel Friedlander, is the same one now chasing Cravath....
...“Investors are worried that a lack of economic success equals Macri’s demise, which equals the return of a populist government,” says Jorge Mariscal of UBS Wealth Management. “It’s very worrying.”...
...“Better Git it in Your Soul”, here reduced to an end-of set theme, ended with a triple-tongued unaccompanied tuba feature for Mingus alumnus Earl McIntyre....
...Templon; feminist works from the 1970s at Saltoun; platinum prints by Horst P Horst at Hamiltons....
...Group sales fell 6.8 per cent on a like-for-like basis in the five weeks to January 11....
...Group sales grew1.5 per cent in the 13 weeks to September 26. Halfords said the search for a new chairman was progressing well. Nigel Wilson, senior independent director, is acting chairman....
...Adecco walked away from bidding for Michael Page, the UK recruitment agency on Tuesday, two weeks before a “put up or shut up” deadline imposed by the UK Takeover Panel....
...The shares closed on Friday at 134½p, giving the company a market capitalisation of £164m....
...Matthew McEachran, analyst at Kaupthing Singer & Friedlander, had issued a “buy” note on Findel on Wednesday....
...Earlier this week, Ellerman, their investment vehicle, declared a raised holding of 9.1 per cent....
...SThree, the IT recruitment consultant, improved 2.8 per cent to 511½p after Kaupthing Singer & Friedlander upgraded its top of the range 2008 estimates by 8 per cent, citing the number of vacancies on IT...
...Trading volumes were a hefty 5.2bn. Over the week, the FTSE 100 fell 0.2 per cent, while the mid-caps rose 0.5 per cent....
...Ramco ended discussions about a potential takeover last week....
...Singer & Friedlander rose 4.2 per cent to 272½p after reports that the Icelandic investment bank Kaupthing has prepared a £1bn acquisition chest....
...Speculation over a bid has sent the share price to a three-year high in recent weeks....
...The shares closed the week up 4.6 per cent at 257¾p....
...Bid speculation took hold again in Singer & Friedlander, the investment bank, up 6.2 per cent through the week at 311p.....
...Isoft, the software group, added 4.6 per cent to 380¾p after a series of institutional investor meetings late last week were well received....
...Scottish Widows, part of Lloyds TSB, last week sold 28.7m BSkyB shares at 599p. Lloyds fell 0.7 per cent at 412¾p....
...Lloyds TSB shed 2.8 per cent to 408¾p after it said it would appoint Deutsche Bank as advisers on a possible bid....
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