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...The estimate for last year was under 800,000, less than a third of the peak....
...Reach out to me (imani.moise@ft.com) or Sid (sid.v@ft.com) to let us know. Happy reading!...
...In 1950, Joe McElroy, a Kremmling rancher, threw a motorised rope tow up Baker Mountain, right across the road from Bluebird....
...Anyway, there’s much to enjoy in the paper for policy wonks, technologists or historians, so do have a read if you want a break from wondering whether we’ll have a V-shaped recovery or not....
...Deutsche Bank’s satellite-powered shipping tracker indicates that Chinese economic activity has now stopped contracting, and some economists are predicting a V-shaped recovery....
...And now a fifth expect a “V-shaped” economic recovery, up from a 10th in the previous month....
...McElroy confirms the pronunciation and throws in two lines of Yale University’s fight song to plant it in the novelist’s mind....
...Note that our new FY22 EBITA estimates are still 40% below the peak in FY19 and we assume profits reach prior peak only by 2025....
...WPP will also reduce is planned capex from £400m to v£300m....
...“It’s not like the standard V-shaped recession in emerging markets, such as in Indonesia in 1998 where it’s only a year and a half of real economic hardship,” he said....
...Then you have the issue of economies of scale, coincidence of wants and peak/low traffic-supply/demand crunches....
...To improve economies of scale, rental companies regularly shed excess inventory in off-peak periods and pick-up new stock again during the peak seasons....
...“You can’t put Grand Theft Auto V on an iPhone, it’s not the same experience. People were thinking about them like software companies when they should look at them like television and movies.”...
...The drive is particularly important as US car sales near their likely peak and worldwide luxury brands scramble to establish positions in the growing Chinese market....
...Last week’s USA v Germany match drew a record 1.7m concurrent streaming viewers to ESPN at its peak, with streaming on Univision peaking at 747,000....
...A sells a second home overseas to B, just as that housing market peaks. The seller is happy to have exited at the top and deploys some of the proceeds in doing up his wreck of a first home....
...The “v” was added so people searching for them on the internet wouldn’t find themselves confronted by Wikipedia’s entry for “Church (Building)” or Norfolk’s ecclesiastical architecture....
...So far as industry profits go, that peak estate agency call is starting to look quite solid....
...Then again, the MSCI Emerging Markets Index is still around 13 per cent down from its 2011 peak, and investors worldwide are apparently hungry for risk....
...Dubai has launched a fund focused on its domestic real estate market as the government moves to underpin property prices, which have fallen two-thirds from their 2008 peak....
...There remain concerns about power shortages ahead, particularly during the peak summer month of August....
...If the Arab Spring had been the zenith for Anonymous in politics, the HBGary hack marked a peak in industry impact. Sabu, Topiary and some of the others didn’t stop there....
...The index of current conditions reached its 2010 peak of 57.7 in April, a reading which corresponds with 4 per cent growth in global gross domestic product....
...It was called EN-V (for Electric Networked Vehicle) and came in three variants with Chinese names: Xiao (“laugh”), Jiao (“pride”) and Miao (“magic”) “Miao will transport you magically and seamlessly through...
...After an apparent peak earlier this year, these surveys have already started to improve once more....
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