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...It should look to them for strategy too, writes Mitchell Labiak. It makes sense for companies to dovetail announcements....
...HOLD: Bellway (BWY) The housing downturn is already hitting the housebuilder, but there is likely to be more pain to come, writes Mitchell Labiak....
...Merck, BMS, J&J, Novartis and some trade groups have launched a legal broadside against them, filing lawsuits in several different courts across the US....
...Like-for-like sales in the 25 weeks to January 22 were down by 1 per cent against the last equivalent pre-Covid period....
...“The State Council’s decision is a positive step to help restart cross-border business travel,” said Sean Stein, head of the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai....
...“Founders have always been a core pillar of a successful brand,” says Margaret Mitchell, chief commercial officer at SpaceNK....
...There were still some characteristic hikes for recent works, including a 2019 painting by Ewa Juszkiewicz which sold for $1.3mn ($1.6mn with fees) against a $200,000-$300,000 estimate....
...Separately, Persimmon reported forward sales at the December year end of £1.62bn, up 20 per cent on 2019 levels....
...Wetherspoon said 780 of its 870 pubs would serve beers from local brewers at £1.99 in an effort to promote real ale from small breweries rather than celebrate the easing of restrictions....
...J Sainsbury is taking the opposite approach. Britain’s second biggest supermarket raised its full-year profit target in an unscheduled trading update....
...Before the 2008 financial crisis, Mr Tchenguiz had been one of the UK’s most aggressive activist investors, intervening in companies such as the pub group Mitchells & Butlers and supermarket J Sainsbury,...
...Mitchells & Butlers started consulting on Monday about job cuts, blaming curfews and closures due to Covid-19 and waning government support....
...Thankfully, a 1,000-mile tour of the Highlands in the blisteringly fast Ferrari left Anderson with a smile from ear to ear. “Every element has an aerodynamic or engineering function,” he says....
...AstraZeneca ($1.2bn), J&J ($1.5bn), Moderna ($2bn), Novavax ($1.6bn), Pfizer ($1.95bn) and Sanofi/GSK ($2bn) all received funding from the US government’s Operation Warp Speed, through both early stage investments...
...Cazenove turns positive on Mitchells & Butlers in a sector note....
...Mitchell sees the pandemic as another example of “the wonder and terror of creation”....
...Kennedy, US senator (Massachusetts), Washington, DC, July 29 1976; Roger Baldwin, founder, American Civil Liberties Union, New York, June 2 1976; IF Stone, journalist, Washington, DC, July 8 1976; Jules Stein...
...Calquence is one of AstraZeneca’s big pipeline hopes, going head to head with J&J’s $6bn market leader Imbruvica....
...As a reminder, every 1% on agents is 0.5% on EPS....
...From early on, he wanted to have 1,000 pubs.”...
...Over the years, the Rales have amassed a remarkable collection of around 1,300 postwar and contemporary art works....
...Then we’d surely be better off without voting AT ALL.”Instagram account “Woke Blacks” “Choose peace and vote for Jill Stein....
...The company has hired J eremi Gorman from Amazon and Jared Grusd from the Huffington Post. Royal Bank of Canada’s European real estate team has made recent hires....
...Like-for-like sales have increased by 6.1 per cent since the year end; but this strong start is “very unlikely” to maintain because of tougher comparatives and end of the school holidays....
...Former US special envoy for Northern Ireland, George J Mitchell, who chaired the peace talks, is set to be joined by former US president Bill Clinton, the former first and deputy first ministers David Trimble...
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