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...Additional reporting by Camilla Hodgson in San Francisco...
...Meanwhile, sterling weakened 0.7 per cent against the euro at one point before paring back some of its losses, as UK-EU trade talks balanced on what Irish prime minister Micheál Martin called a “knife-edge...
...Multinationals battling with slow growth spotted the opportunity and switched their extensive R&D and marketing machines into gear....
...Sage estimates R at 0.7 to 0.9....
...“R is only a statistical summary, and what would be more useful is an understanding of the driving factors behind the R — what is causing the infection and its spread,” he said....
...He said this measure had to be taken into consideration along with the R number, the much-quoted figure that shows how fast infections are increasing or decreasing....
...Ministers are preparing to announce fresh help for UK care homes after officials said the closely watched ‘R’ rate of coronavirus transmission had risen in the sector....
...It sought to develop market-leading tech and partnered with prestigious universities, including Berkeley, as part of Huawei’s multibillion-dollar annual R&D budget....
...Bricks-and-mortar retailers who fail to match the data and insights of their online competitors keep going bankrupt — from Sears to Payless to Toys R Us....
...While some shops, including Toys R Us, went bust over the year, a larger number negotiated emergency agreements with creditors to avoid going under — known as company voluntary agreements....
...Wednesday that its new campus was part of a “major expansion” of its operations in Austin, almost doubling its existing headcount in the city to more than 11,000 full-time jobs, including sales, engineering, R&...
...According to a report from Deloitte, projected returns on drug discovery R&D investment fell to their lowest level in eight years in 2017, while spending increased....
...Despite challenging high street conditions, which have hit a number of well known retailers including House of Fraser and Toys R Us this year, Hotel Chocolat said it had opened 15 new stores over the year...
...The company is the latest in a string of high-street brands, including Toys R Us and Carpetright*, that have been forced to either close stores or call in administrators amid challenging financial conditions...
...A number of retailers including Carpetright and Toys R Us, which eventually collapsed, have sought CVAs this year....
...After a stronger start to 2018, the group warned in April that the closure of high street retailer Toys R Us in the UK would impact its brand sales in the short term....
...The UK high street has had a rough start to 2018, with the collapse of Maplin Electronics and the UK arm of Toys R Us....
...The UK high street has also had a tough 2018 so far, with retailers Toys R Us and Maplin Electronics among the latest to fail....
...Last week both the UK arm of Toys R Us and Maplin Electronics fell into administration, while Mothercare warned it needed extra help from its lenders because of the “challenging trading environment”....
...Additional reporting by Camilla Hodgson and Sylvia Pfeifer...
...Average spending per household was about R$68,000 ($21,725) in 2014 and fell to R$61,800 last year. This year, it will fall to about R$61,400 before beginning to edge back up, Euromonitor predicts....
...Regressing the PDO in one season on the value for the next season, using data from the Premier League, gives an R-squared statistic of 0.3724....
...When England manager Roy Hodgson complained about having to play in the sweltering Manaus heat, the city mayor issued a statement saying the team was not welcome there....
...I chuckled at a still-life by John R J Taylor from the series Ideal Home (1990), of the control panel of a domestic oven, all steel and glass, inset into wood panelling with an arts-and-crafts repro door...
...This week’s appointment of the much-travelled, multilingual, but “R” non-pronouncing Roy Hodgson as new England football manager – in preference to “people’s choice”, occasional Monaco visitor and leading...
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