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...Even as the growth in the number of digital shoppers slows after the surge at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, the proportion of online consumers is still expected to increase from 32 per cent in 2021...
...On one day alone, Citadel Securities traded 7.4bn shares for retail investors, more than the entire industry’s average daily volumes in 2019, he said....
...But that was at the height of the boom in special purpose acquisition companies. As DD has told you, things have soured significantly since then....
...Between the beginning of this year and the end of 2020, 22 more are set to join them, providing another 1,412 floors to a total height of 3.6 miles....
...In Bedford-Stuyvesant, Crown Heights, Lefferts Gardens and Bushwick, sales rose 21 per cent....
...Google revealed an even bigger jump, with capital spending in a single quarter soaring to $7.3bn from $2.5bn the previous year....
...Italy’s FTSE Mib was down 0.7 per cent and Spain’s Ibex 35 was down 0.2 per cent....
...Last year, Unilever spent €7.7bn on marketing, but has been overhauling its advertising budget as part of a cost-cutting and margin improvement programme ....
...Barclays, its former chief executive and three of its other ex-senior executives have been charged with fraud by the Serious Fraud Office over the bank’s dealings with Qatar at the height of the financial...
...(At last check, core CPI was expected to rise 2.7 per cent year-over-year, and the ILO unemployment rate was expected to be 4.3 per cent.)...
...It also stands 7 metres high, about the height of a double-decker bus, and weighs just under 6 tonnes....
...The dollar index is steady on the day at 96.77 and benchmark 10-year Treasury yields, which at the height of last week’s stock market sell-off hit a low of 1.53 per cent as “havens” were sought, are currently...
...PCP, Amanda Staveley’s investment vehicle which invested on behalf of a senior Abu Dhabi royal during Barclays’ £7.3bn cash call, has alleged in court documents that Barclays made the payments after the...
...Barclays’ £7.3bn emergency cash call at the height of the financial crisis enabled the bank to avoid control by the UK government but also left one of Britain’s most recognisable brands inextricably linked...
...Brent oil settled 3.7 per cent lower at $46.37 a barrel. For market updates and comment follow us on Twitter @FTMarkets...
...Atlas Mara’s share price was unchanged on Wednesday at $7.10. It is down 37.7 per cent from its peak reached shortly after listing last year but off its April low of $6....
...Gulf sovereign wealth funds invested tens of billions of dollars in some of the world’s biggest banks at the height of the financial crisis....
...Sixty years after Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay conquered Mount Everest, some companies were also trying to scale great heights this week....
...The Abu Dhabi sheikh who came to the rescue of Barclays Bank with a £3.5bn capital injection at the height of the financial crisis, has sold his stake in the UK bank....
...Bain Capital-backed Bright Horizons Family Solutions soared 28.7 per cent after its $222m offering in January....
...Citigroup, for example, remains in dispute with the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority over the sovereign wealth fund’s $7.5bn investment in 2007....
...At the height of the dotcom boom, Dell was the largest computer systems provider in the world. By 2005, annual revenues surpassed $55bn....
...It stressed on Monday that it would hold on to the 6.7 per cent stake that it acquired in two equity raisings in 2008....
...“The UK-born Ms Lake was most recently CFO of JPMorgan’s consumer business and worked as global controller of the investment bank from 2007-2009 at the height of the financial crisis.”...
...An affiliate of Apollo Global Management, the US private equity group, is seeking to raise $1bn in a share offering to reduce debt at a property company acquired at the height of the US housing boom....
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