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...Brands such as J Crew and Gap developed damaging addictions to discounting in the years after the 2008 financial crisis....
...Andrew England and Simeon Kerr have this report from Abu Dhabi. And Chinese tech stocks jumped again overnight, William Langley reports from Hong Kong, continuing a rollercoaster start to the year....
...Diana Darke Hythe, Kent, UK Letter in response to this letter: Hagia Sophia’s vast dome symbolised the world / From David J Critchley, Winslow, Bucks, UK...
...Companies including JCPenney, Neiman Marcus and J Crew have been unable to cope with a collapse in sales and filed for bankruptcy....
...“There is almost collusion in including countries where corporate governance is very low and moral hazard is very high [in the indices], and Saudi really fits that paradigm,” said J.P....
Mubadala Development Company hopes to finalise the deal ‘within a matter of days’
...Qatar is also the largest shareholder in Barclays Bank and J Sainsbury, and the second-largest investor in the London Stock Exchange....
...In what may be Rembrandt’s very last painting, “Simeon with the Infant Christ in the Temple”, things seem to be dissolving into a sort of quivering darkness, not absolute but full of possibilities....
...“To run a company, you have to be a J. You have to be on time and close things out, and that’s not my natural tendency, so I have to force myself to behave like that....
...On London’s Oxford Street, shop windows proclaim up to 50 per cent off, while on New York’s Fifth Avenue, stores including J Crew have been offering money-off promotions....
...Arcapita, which declined to comment, owns a broad portfolio of companies in the US and Europe, including UK rail cargo company Freightliner, Irish utilities group Viridian and US women’s apparel retailer J...
...Andy Briggs, chief executive of the group’s Friends Life UK insurance business, played down the sales figures saying it had been targeting less business in some areas....
...said J.E. Peterson, a US-based expert on Oman. “There is probably a good deal of disappointment that the promised changes to the Majlis al-Shura’s remit have not come to pass,” he said....
...Mr Tookey has previously worked with Andy Briggs, chief executive of Friends Life, at Lloyds and Prudential UK....
...[But] the higher the salary floors, the less attractive Omanisation is to employers,” says J.E. Peterson, a US-based academic specialising in the Gulf....
...Additional reporting by Paul J Davies...
...“He [the ruler] has stuck with the same ministers for 10 or 20 years,” says J.E. Peterson, a historian who specialises on Oman....
...Andy Briggs, the head of Lloyds Banking Group’s home and car insurance business, has been poached by Resolution to reinvigorate its UK life assurance consolidation project....
...The stock was the worst performer in the FTSE 100 during 2010, but rose more than 7 per cent last month in the days after the group said Andy Briggs, currently at Lloyds Banking Group’s insurance arm, would...
...These gambles paid off with profits of billions of dollars and have gone some way to reviving the QIA’s reputation after the dark days of a takeover bid for J Sainsbury, when the City of London heaped scorn...
...With 20 children to raise, it is a wonder J.S. Bach found time to write music at all....
...There was also talk that J&J could abandon its interest in S&N and bid instead for Synthes, the Swiss medical device maker....
...in a somewhat haphazard strategy, building relationships with different partners while pursuing unfocused investments that culminated in the pilloried last-minute failure to complete the acquisition of J...
...Mr Sayed declined to comment on talk that the fund will take part in potential fundraising from RBS or Lloyds, or rumours of its interest in raising its stake in UK retailer J Sainsbury ....
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