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...How Combs and Weschler perform is top of mind for shareholders such as Christopher Rossbach, who invests on behalf of the investment management firm J Stern & Co....
...CVS Group trading update, Dow Q4, Dr Martens Q3 trading update, Fever-Tree Drinks trading update, Foxtons FY trading update, Fujitsu General Q3, Fuller, Smith & Turner trading update, Gallagher (Arthur J)...
...That compares to the 23 times on which J&J itself trades and the 20 and 25 times that consumer goods companies such as Reckitt Benckiser and Procter & Gamble command....
...That includes Procter & Gamble and Colgate-Palmolive, both trading at about 26 times forward earnings....
...Voice clip of Bernie Moreno How does Ohio feel about President Donald J Trump? Sonja Hutson Now, with a little help from Democratic party donors, he’s the GOP nominee for Ohio’s Senate seat....
...He cited the bargaining power of supermarkets such as Tesco and J Sainsbury in the UK, Ahold Delhaize in the Netherlands and Carrefour in France....
...NON-FICTION JANUARY Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia by Gary J Bass (Picador/Knopf) A magisterial history of the trial of Japan’s wartime leaders — the largely overlooked...
...I also like the look of a colourful 1930s still life by New Zealand painter Frederick J Porter, previously sold by Tony Bradshaw’s former London gallery The Bloomsbury Workshop (est £400-£600)....
...There are two big risks to Biden’s gamble. The first is that America is now close to making regime change in China its implicit goal....
...The $250mn gamble that Amazon made — admittedly, given the size of Amazon, not as big a gamble as it sounds — is that there is more value to be had in telling a story in Tolkien’s vast world than there is...
...He sells the technology, notably to the J Paul Getty Museum in LA and the Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa....
...Rival J Sainsbury has generated an almost identical performance. It is the same across other parts of the industry....
...But this year, and after a gamble on crypto backfired, the 41-year-old chief executive had to watch Checkout.com’s valuation come tumbling down....
...That would be similar to the growth posted last week by Tesco and J Sainsbury, after British shoppers splashed out for the first Christmas in two years not to be disrupted by Covid-19....
...Our Big Read delves into central bank governor Haruhiko Kuroda’s gamble on a royal flush of macroeconomic outcomes as the solution....
...In his 1996 book Democracy’s Discontent, the political philosopher and Harvard professor Michael J. Sandel sharply outlined why decentralisation is crucial for democracy....
...One of the most seismic shifts in the art market in recent years, and particularly since the start of the pandemic, has been the huge rise in young, moneyed collectors from Asia who are keen to gamble on...
...But it faces tough competition from Procter & Gamble, GlaxoSmithKline’s consumer business, which is also spinning off from its group, and a wave of smaller companies tapping into demand for organic and natural...
...J&J results will be scrutinised for updates on its Covid vaccine and talc litigation, while P&G could yield further insights on inflation and supply chain disruptions....
...Others drew parallels between Unilever and rival Procter & Gamble, which was the target of a campaign by Peltz, who sat on its board for three years until last year....
...J&J’s Covid jab rollout in the US was halted last week not long after the vaccine had been approved, with about 7m doses having been administered....
...Interest in European football in Japan has always been comparatively low because of the strength of the domestic J-League....
...William J. Stokes is a musician and member of art-pop band Voka Gentle....
...The sports betting boom may be his most successful gamble yet....
...Daniel J Hinkley, “Windcliff: A Story of People, Plants and Gardens” (Timber Press)....
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