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...Construction of its $4bn North Carolina factory began last month. So far, however, rollout has been unimpressive....
...They will be having pizza and sushi prepared by his private sushi chef. “It’s a casual thing,” he makes clear. “This isn’t a fancy party.”...
...There are not yet many outright cheap stocks to be found (the second column contains some mighty high P/Es)....
...Given how many recipients were sole traders, S&P Global estimated the jobs saved by employers at nearer 14m....
...(Vanity Fair) Everyone loves pizza Silicon Valley start-up Zume Pizza has raised some serious dough from investors, including $375m from SoftBank. What does it do?...
...And you don’t hear much complaining when the industry does beat the S&P, as was the case in 2018....
...It said in March it had hired Goldman Sachs to explore a sale of its pizza crust business....
...S&P Global Ratings expects the sector's return on capital to increase to around 6%-8% by year-end 2018....
...S&P is back in the non-prime market, three years after paying $1.4bn to settle allegations it issued overly rosy ratings on MBS in the run-up to the crisis, in order to win more business....
...Dominion’s offer continues an active period for merger and acquisition activity in the US utility sector, which hit a record in 2017, with about $99bn worth of deals announced, according to S&P Global....
...Corporate earnings reports out today include Ci:z Holdings....
...In the meantime, rival devices from Amazon and Google have extended their capabilities into a wide range of other areas beyond audio, from controlling smart-home devices to ordering pizza....
...Corporate earnings reports out today include Japan Logistics Fund and Ci:z Holdings....
...Activist battles 1: Lowe’s THE BUSINESS An $84bn US home improvements chain based in Mooresville, North Carolina, with almost 1,900 stores across the country....
...The tightening race sent US stocks to their ninth successive daily decline on Friday, with the S&P 500 edging lower to mark its longest string of losses in 36 years....
...After big gains on Monday — which saw the S&P 500 snap its longest losing streak since 1980 with a 2.2 per cent rally and the Dow Jones Industrial Average hit its highest close in a month — financial markets...
...Mr Trump has now won back-to-back races in New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada, following his second-place finish to Ted Cruz in Iowa....
...The move comes as Yum, the company behind KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell, announced plans to return $6.2bn to shareholders earlier on Thursday, which S&P said is “a significant shift from the company’s previous...
...His new bikers’ dictionary P is for Peloton: The A-Z of Cycling was compiled with the journalist Suze Clemitson....
...The WSJ speaks to Young Guru – Jay Z’s personal sound engineerfor the past 16 years....
...In early 2010, Birdman reportedly branched out into the world of oil and gas, founding Bronald Oil and Gas LLC with his brother Ronald....
...The results weighed on the wider sector as BB&T shares slipped 4 per cent to $37.33, leading the benchmark S&P 500 lower....
...Even though stars such as Jay-Z and P Diddy have earned vast sums, hip-hop, a genre born only in the late 1970s, has lacked one of its own. Now, in Andre Young – Dr Dre – it has one....
...So he ensured that his next album – a collaboration with rapper/producer P. Diddy – was more accessible for a mainstream audience. It worked – the album reached number three in the US charts....
...Domino’s Pizza UK and Ireland was up 12.5 per cent to 443¼p after it bought a 75 per cent stake in the exclusive German franchisee for £8.8m....
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