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...However, those averse to picking up pine needles need not despair. If an artificial tree gets enough use, its carbon count can fall below that of repeatedly buying real trees....
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...“The reasonably balanced Budget did not move the needle on expectations of monetary policy and sterling was left broadly unchanged,” said Chris Turner, global head of markets at ING....
Flow and survey data are tempting but resist them if you can
...“There’s a narrow needle to be threaded here,” said one of the people familiar with the venture....
...“Every day I’m on pins and needles because I know somebody else could get word that this guy is selling and people come out of the woodwork. Pins and needles, pins and needles, pins and needles.”...
...A market cap below €3bn also put off some big fund managers as an investment in Douglas would be too small to move the needle on their portfolios....
...However, Yael Selfin, chief economist at advisory firm KPMG UK, said Wednesday’s data was “unlikely to move the needle” for the BoE....
...In effect, wealth is a sign that God loves you and that your overweight camel will have no problems getting through the eye of the needle....
...Half the time, Civil War is precisely what you’d think: extrajudicial executions set to a blankly jarring De La Soul needle drop....
US secretary of state attempts to thread a diplomatic needle by backing allies while trying to contain a war
...Amadai, or tilefish, is cooked by pouring hot oil over the fillet so the scales crisp and stand up like pine needles, a technique called matsukasa-yaki....
...Fresh woody scents are evergreen; Le Labo has distilled the pine tree into its Pin 12 candle (£65), while Skandinavisk has captured a Nordic forest – pine needles, fir cones and birch sap meet lily of the...
...Tory MPs fear Wednesday’s Budget may do little to move the needle among voters, with some calling it a “non-buzz Budget”....
...“Don’t look for the needle in the haystack. Just buy the haystack,” wrote John Bogle, the late founder of investment firm Vanguard. His quip is now conventional wisdom....
...As June needles Hegarty with questions and searches for inconsistencies in the evidence, he in turn begins to try and destabilise her instincts, undermine her reputation and compromise her safety....
...“I’ll mingle, I’ll shake hands,” he promises, before proceeding to ridicule small talk, obsess over a guest’s aversion to his using her nickname and needle the host, a white man from Johannesburg (Sharlto...
...Contributions from the company’s acquisitions — notably the $43bn purchase of cancer biotechnology company Seagen — have yet to move the needle....
...“There’s a risk that we don’t thread this needle and unemployment picks up speed,” said Adam Abbas, head of fixed income at Harris Associates. “I think there are risks to credit spreads here.”...
...But so far policymakers have not only failed to move the needle but have also focused on preventing risk at the expense of real economic activity by private sector firms....
...Clearly, some tech companies are making large investments, but this hasn’t moved the needle at an aggregate level....
...Without lodestones to keep compass needles magnetised, early sailors would have found it harder to navigate the unknown seas....
...With his hefty legal bills, Trump needs to thread the donor needle very carefully [Free to read]....
...These are “not necessarily bad but are insufficient to move the needle,” he says....
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