Hints and tips:
...Wall Street banks have seen their revenues boosted because of all the fees. Then there are employees....
...Wirecard joins the NCAA club Pubs are reopening in the UK this weekend and that means the return of a venerable British institution: the pub quiz....
...But this is Wall Street, America’s singular cauldron of ambition and ego, where a successful partnership can become a curse....
...(via trading updates from WH Smith and pub chain JD Wetherspoon), as well as British jobs data, adding interest: Economy (all times CET): 10:30 UK unemployment rate Earnings (all times CET): 08:00 Pets...
...This time, though, it was the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street herself....
...MacKenzie adopted a crude populist view of the world, designed simply to please an imaginary Sun reader, defined in his own words as ‘the bloke you see in the pub, a right old fascist, wants to send the...
...Tesco’s profit warning led some would-be bidders to believe the high street space race might have run its course and buying 750-odd stores wasn’t too smart....
...youthful-looking 43 year-old and one of the world’s most successful activist investors, is busy ruing the biggest mistake of his career: a hurried order in November 2009 to sell millions of shares in the UK pub...
...A similar culture slip means that on Wall Street insider information is generally deemed to be news leaked or used in breach of a duty to keep quiet....
...Instead, the unaffiliated should be cheering travel agents (home-nation fans may actively want to get away), bookshops, restaurants, casinos, nightclubs, foodie pub chains and the high street retailers....
...Alan Parker’s bio Alan Parker, the 60-year-old Whitbread chief executive, shares a local heritage with his company, having been born near its historic Chiswell Street brewery in 1946....
...Along Wellington Street are small businesses, pawn shops and chain stores catering for all points on the economic and social spectrum....
...It was unsettled by a weak open on Wall Street. Elsewhere, the FTSE 250 added 28.3 points, or 0.2 per cent, to 11,122.9. InterContinental Hotels Group was once again the main speculative feature....
...The Irish, who banned smoking in pubs in 2004, quickly adopted the practice of “smirking”: nipping outside pubs to smoke and flirt. “I expect a new word to be added to the dictionary,” Pratt says....
...In common with most pub companies, Enterprise has enjoyed a strong run in the past year, rising by nearly 40 per cent....
...Wolverhampton & Dudley, the brewer and pub operator, provided the session’s speculative feature....
...As one contact told me during a night at the pub: “Eating is cheating.”...
...Takeover talk boosted pub group Mitchells & Butlers, the owner of All Bar One, up 2.2 per cent to 403¾p....
...In the wider market, the FTSE 100 touched a fresh four-year high in morning trade before Wall Street and weak oil stocks dragged it lower....
...Enterprise Inns, the UK’s largest pub group, gained 1.8 per cent to 864p ahead of its full-year figures today....
...Shares in the retailer, a feature of the British high street since the start of last century and which these days sells anything from DVDs to homeware to pic-n-mix, rose 3 per cent to 34p as talk of private...
...Shares in JD Wetherspoon dropped 3.1 per cent to 252p after it announced plans to ban smoking in its pubs by 2006....
...Philip Green, the retail entrepreneur, US supermarket chain Target, high street retailer GUS were all rumoured to be interested....
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