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...Since the beginning of October, Maga Inc, a newly created Trump super Pac, has spent $8.5mn on ads in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Nevada and Arizona....
...Boots closed dozens of outlets last year, at a cost of more than 4,000 jobs, as its parent company took a $2bn impairment charge against its UK investment....
...But ever since its $2bn deal with General Motors, Nikola has opted to use the Detroit carmaker’s hydrogen system instead of its own....
...Mark Grant, chief global strategist at B Riley FBR Inc in Fort Lauderdale, Florida “My target for the S&P 500 by year end is 3,382 and the 10-year yield at 1.70 per cent . . ....
...CLSA’s Nicholas Smith said in a note to clients on Friday that, with earnings results for about 80 per cent of the market by market capitalisation now published, “the year of the pig has opened with what...
...In May, it also unveiled a plan to invest up to $2.25bn in General Motors’ self-driving car unit....
...Here's Mazzucato again: Tesla Motors, SolarCity and SpaceX, all led by entrepreneur Elon Musk, are currently surfing a new wave of state technology....
...Every year around this time, as the bulk of Japan Inc builds to its annual shareholder meeting season in June, there is a patchwork of efforts to appear friendly towards investors....
...In 2017, Crest’s gross margin dipped slightly, by 30 basis points to 26.4 per cent, and its operating margin remained flat at 20.3 per cent – although this was at the top end of its own guidance of an 18...
...Annual increases of 4-6 per cent in their numbers within ageing populations supply the growth story every market newcomer needs....
...Mr Daintith will replace David Smith, formerly of vacuum tubes group Edwards and Jaguar Land Rover....
...But not everyone sees the dilution of the yen effect as a huge blow for Japan Inc....
...Economists expect real gross domestic product in Japan to shrink by an annualised 3.4 per cent in the current quarter, before resuming growth supported by ultra-easy monetary policy and a second round of...
...The board of David Jones on Wednesday recommended a A$4 a share offer by Woolworths to its shareholders – a 25 per cent premium on Tuesday’s closing price of $3.19....
...“A picture is emerging, and it is of a corporate Japan in rude health,” says Nicholas Smith, an analyst at CLSA....
...FedEx shares rallied 4.4 per cent to $103.15 after chief executive Fred Smith said sluggish global growth in the company’s fourth quarter overshadowed improving margins and ground volume....
...(Financial Times) “Ford Motor is to develop its hybrid drive technology for light trucks independently of Japan’s Toyota after the pair broke off co-operation in the field amid robust statements from Ford...
...It owns 74 per cent of the former General Motors lending unit. BATS carried out damage control on Friday’s abortive, glitch-ridden IPO....
...NRG plans to spend $25m over five years to link Texas’ three key cities – Houston, Dallas/Fort Worth and Austin – with charging stations....
...In Paris, the CAC 40 index rose 1.4 per cent to 3,499.73, with big moves at the top and bottom of the index....
...He recently stood down as chairman of Channel 4 television. He writes a weekly column for the Financial Times on entrepreneurship and is chairman of the Royal Society of the Arts....
...Nintendo , the games console group that gets nearly 40 per cent of its sales on the American continent, sank 4.2 per cent to Y10,850 while Mazda Motor , which gets a fifth of its sales in the US, fell 2.3...
...The Dow was expanded from 12 to 20 names when General Motors was added....
...General Motors fell 1.7 per cent to $20.80, relatively unaffected by a decision to halt production of its Chevrolet Cruze at its Lordstown plant, which GM blamed on a supplier issue....
...Sony, which derives 21 per cent of its sales from Europe, fell 3.4 per cent to Y1,504 as the yen’s rise to a 10-year high against the euro dimmed earnings prospects....
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