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...Annual like-for-like revenues rose 3.5 per cent to £14bn, lower than the 4.1 per cent uplift expected by analysts....
...Chief executive Kris Licht called the company’s fourth-quarter performance “unsatisfactory”....
...Warner shares rose more than 8 per cent after Licht’s dismissal as investors speculated that CNN could be sold or spun off....
...First-quarter like-for-like net sales rose 7.9 per cent to £3.92bn from the same period a year ago, Reckitt said on Wednesday....
...Like-for-like net revenue rose by 3.4 per cent to £3.6bn in the quarter against last year, driven by the performance of the hygiene and health divisions....
...Cable news rose on outrage content, generated first by Fox and later by MSNBC....
...Former New York Times boss Mark Thompson is in talks to lead CNN after Chris Licht was ousted in June....
...Ms Clarke was not alone in taking up baking: flour sales rose by between 20 and 50 per cent in all countries Nielsen surveyed....
...Shares in AMS, which has a market capitalisation of some SFr3.77bn (€3.43bn), rose 8 per cent on Tuesday, while Osram, valued at roughly €3.19bn, rose 3.4 per cent. Osram and AMS declined to comment....
...In due course, another trio consisting of Stephen Zimmerman, Leonard Licht and Carol Galley cemented Mercury’s position as the biggest and most powerful British fund manager....
...They rose 5.4 per cent to €40.07 on Tuesday on news of Carlyle’s interest. Osram has struggled this year, issuing two profit warnings that have dragged its share price down by more than half....
...Bogdanov’s rich and enormously productive life also embraced opera — his productions included Stockhausen’s Donnerstag aus Licht at the Royal Opera House (1985) and the world premiere of Montag aus Licht...
...Shares of Osram, the Munich-based lighting company, rose 14 per cent to a record high on Thursday on reports that it may be taken over by a Chinese rival....
...Osram Licht, spun out of Siemens in 2013, combines component supply and general lighting....
...In Paris, Liffe November milling wheat, the European benchmark, rose yesterday to €232 a tonne, up 5.2 per cent on the week....
...The mezzo-soprano Dame Janet Baker on Milan Backstage at an opera house is not champagne and roses....
...ICE August Brent rose $1.45 to $69.78 a barrel. Nymex August RBOB gasoline jumped 3.3 per cent to $1.9030 a gallon....
...Licht also said raw sugar prices could rise to 16 cents a pound this year....
...Licht, in its first forecast of world output for the current season. December arabica coffee futures were 1.65 cents higher at 77.30 a lb on the New York Board of Trade....
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