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...No one criticises actress Billie Lourd, daughter of Carrie Fisher and granddaughter of Debbie Reynolds. Complaints turn you into the villain....
...Bond yields rise as their prices fall....
...It falls to Biden to make use of this moment of (comparative) consensus....
...“This will put at risk 21,000 jobs in the next six months, and more after that,” says Catriona Jackson, its chief executive....
...The audio versions of Mick Herron’s Jackson Lamb series of tales of rogue spooks are excellent. In terms of an author fitting for unsettling times, try Joseph Roth....
...“The UK economy now has to brace itself for a hard landing,” said Rebecca Harding, a trade economist who runs Coriolis Technologies....
...Investors everywhere will be watching this week’s meeting of global policymakers at Jackson Hole for any clues....
...Rebecca Harding, chief executive, Coriolis Technologies The government’s hands are tied in terms of its promise to end austerity....
...Rebecca Larkin, senior economist at the Construction Products Association, said the Help to Buy equity loan programme has helped to support housebuilding while early work on projects, including the Thames...
...The market had expected a 0.9 per cent fall in activity. The contraction was primarily because of a sharp fall in new commercial work, which was partly offset by an increase in housebuilding....
...Rebecca Harding, chief executive, Equant Analytics 2018 will continue to be a tough year for consumers....
...Rebecca Harding, chief executive, Equant Analytics With the lifting of public sector wage caps it is possible that UK workers will see a moderate uplift in pay....
...Rebecca Harding, chief executive, Equant Analytics UK productivity will not experience “resurgent” growth....
...Inflation [will] fall back to target but uncertainty clouds the investment outlook....
...Rebecca Harding, CEO, Equant Analytics Economic growth in the UK will be slower in 2018 than in 2017....
...Rebecca Harding, chief executive, Equant Analytics Feel about the same as 12 months ago....
...mooted $47bn deal led to an initial 3 per cent surge in BAT’s stock but this gain reversed in early afternoon trading following the New York open as the market calculated that the amount offered would fall...
...They have just not discovered Montecito yet,” says Montecito-based estate agent Rebecca Riskin from Riskin Associates....
...Rebecca Davis is a columnist for the Daily Maverick, a South African online newspaper...
...No question that their collaboration – they also hatched the musical Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson – continues to be rich and lively....
...Rebecca Taylor, the Liberal Democrat MEP for Yorkshire and Humber, took up the issue after being repeatedly pestered by vaping constituents....
...Melrose’s shares fell 11.5 per cent to 208.76p by the close, the biggest single fall on the FTSE 100....
...Eleven Rings : The Soul of Success, by Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty, Penguin Press, $27.95, 368 pages Jackson isn’t just a revered American basketball coach; this son of Pentecostal ministers is also...
..., by Ian Whybrow and Adrian Reynolds, Puffin, RRP£6.99 Harry and his bucket full of dinosaurs go on a family trip to Australia....
...In Retromania, Simon Reynolds examines pop’s self-investiture in its own history....
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