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...The boss of J Sainsbury said shoppers were starting to splurge on certain items after two years of shopping for bargains, as Britain’s second-biggest supermarket forecast rising profits this year....
...The Chinese lunar new year gives every shopper a reason to splurge....
...The company that owns Chelsea Football Club made a net loss of more than £650mn after it bought the club for £2.5bn from sanctioned oligarch Roman Abramovich in May 2022....
...US holiday spending is set to reach record levels of more than $950bn this year after a historic splurge over the Thanksgiving weekend, according to the country’s biggest retail industry association....
...Non-financial companies tapping lenders include energy group Energy Transfer with a $3bn deal, natural gas producer EQT with a $750mn deal, telecoms company T-Mobile with a $3bn transaction and Canada’s...
...While the infrastructure splurge has contributed to economic growth and drawn investment, it has also saddled state-owned companies with huge debts, a burden that Widodo’s successor will have to address....
...Indeed, the government has focused on integrating with the EU market by extending rules of origin that facilitate car companies building cross-Channel supply chains....
Budget office points to surge in government debt costs after pandemic-era fiscal splurge to prop up economies
Soaring holiday spending driven by demand, not higher prices, as retailers deepen discounts
...Lotus Bakeries, the company behind the Biscoff caramelised biscuit and spread, has experienced a revival in the past decade after years of sleepy growth....
...Night-time trade at the 24-hour bakery is slow, however. “People have been put off socialising.” Food inflation has hurt too. “Beef went up hugely, eggs went up....
...But for many, this fails to take into account the reality of operating with limited space and resources....
...The Bekas drones’ small size means their combat potential is limited as they can only carry a 3.5kg load up to 5km....
...Here’s the money shot: Using firm-level panel data, we find that the BOJ’s purchases raised stock returns more for those stocks with limited availability in the stock lending market....
...Snacks limited to Divine Fairtrade chocolate bars....
...The former chief financial officer of collapsed café chain Patisserie Valerie appeared in court on Tuesday accused of conspiring to inflate cash on the group’s balance sheet, alongside three other defendants...
...“I don’t think this changes the fact that companies do deals.”...
...The interior of the bakery in Nørrebro is pretty minimalist, with only a limited number of pastries available at any one time....
...However, Phillip Wool, managing director and head of research at Rayliant Global Advisors, which provides a US-listed actively managed ETF that invests in onshore Chinese companies, said while he would not...
...EVs in particular are likely to be one of the first big consumer goods where a substantial amount of European-based production is owned by Chinese companies....
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The real asset investment splurge
...Chocolate, hazelnut, espresso cake at River Cafe River Cafe was one of the places that brought me to London. It’s still somewhere I’ve really got to save up for (or get invited to by a rich friend)....
...Increasingly, they are focused on helping companies already in their portfolios towards exits which would then allow VCs to return capital to their own limited partners....
...“We are seeing signs of consumers easing their discretionary spending restrictions, but we are not seeing a splurge yet in leisure spending,” said Fenech, adding that the drop was partly due to the effects...
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