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...Also, tickets are nearly sold out for the FT Alphaville pub quiz in New York in two weeks, where both of us will be hosting a session. More info here....
...John Glen, Cips chief economist, said that “concerns over rising energy and food bills affected consumer appetite for pubs and restaurants and demand was scaled back”....
...I have a WhatsApp group chat, set up after a night in the pub five years ago, where friends recommend TV shows that everyone just has to see....
...The latest published Thai unemployment rate, covering 2021’s first quarter and announced in May, was 1.96 per cent, a 12-year high....
...TV is more important when the pubs and cinemas are shut, but there are signs that in the US, spending might be near its peak....
...McKinsey: data deception Kevin Sneader was probably already having a long week when he received the call from S&P Global chief executive Doug Peterson earlier this year....
...Anji Clarke, landlady of a 150-year-old pub in north London, noticed big changes to her shopping habits after the UK introduced the first coronavirus lockdown in March....
...The report appeared on Tesla’s first day of trading in the S&P 500, weakening the electric carmaker’s shares....
...Gaze forward to 2024’s estimated figures and it doesn’t get much cheaper: 7.7 times that sales number....
...In the UK, Sky has allowed households and pubs to pause their expensive sports subscriptions “until normality returned”....
...Deleverage was sizeable, with net debt falling to £1.2bn (inc deeply subordinated bonds, pre IFRS16), or down £343m YoY....
...The Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network said it was an "important step", while Jane Doe Inc, a victim advocacy group, called it "forward thinking"....
...M&S swiftly pulled it from its food range....
...matthew.vincent@ft.com This article has been amended since initial publication to clarify Disney’ s news and consumer offerings....
...FastFT reports pub and restaurant chain Mitchells & Butlers said on Friday that its sales growth had slowed since late November, with a bout of bad weather offsetting an upbeat holiday run....
...Church in the morning… roast lunch… walk to the pub… sudden desire to recalculate the value of your order book, phone your PRs and have them issue a press release…? No?...
...FastFT reports JD Wetherspoon said on Wednesday that vigorous sales growthcontinued apace in its fiscal second quarter, prompting the pub operator to edge up its profit outlook....
...“It’s a long day, watching a correction, the S&P crashing through the floor. I bought the XIV, ’cause I’ll make my money back. I’m a bad boy, ’cause I bought even more. Now XIV is free falling....
...On day one shares in the lossmaking travel website, with a business equivalent in size to a pub, jumped almost 30 per cent to a $900m valuation. Then it collapsed....
...The Adam Smith Institute accuses the HPC of “pub economics”. Which sounds like a challenge to discuss the matter further in the car park of said hostelry....
...The S&P 500 slid 0.6 per cent to 2,067.64, the Dow Jones Industrial Average declined 0.7 per cent to 17,440.59. The Nasdaq Composite fell 1 per cent to 5,039.78....
...The S&P 500, which had its biggest rally in a month on Wednesday, rose 0.2 per cent to 2,108.86 while the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 0.2 per cent to 18,039.37....
...Pubs group Marston’s has swung from a full year loss of £60m to a profit of £31.3m, amidst a welter of “non-underlying” items, whatever those are....
...(FT) Markets Data 05:34 BST Asian markets Nikkei 225 up +94.89 (+0.47%) at 20,078 Topix up +10.87 (+0.67%) at 1,630 Hang Seng down -26.28 (-0.09%) at 28,407 US markets S&P 500: -0.41% at 2,109 DJIA down...
...(FT) Markets Data 05:32 BST Asian markets Nikkei 225 down -397.27 (-1.98%) at 19,662 Topix down -35.12 (-2.16%) at 1,592 Hang Seng down -264.05 (-0.93%) at 28,136 US markets S&P 500: -0.37% at 2,107 DJIA...
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