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...Unsurprisingly, the company’s media spend now skews heavily towards digital....
...The company, called Candle, last year bought Reese Witherspoon’s production company, Hello Sunshine, in a transaction valued at $900mn....
...The index fell 1.5 per cent, closing at 5866 and dipping below a previous low reached in August....
...Eventually, the OAG notes, the group ended up being banked by a subsidiary of a New York-based entity named Noble Markets LLC....
...As we polish off the nigiri, dipping the pieces into soy sauce and wasabi, I press him on his round of recent bridge-building....
...The Hang Seng index in Hong Kong was off to a negative start, dipping 0.1 per cent with financials dipping 0.3 per cent....
...Dish shares, down 10.8 per cent year-to-date, rose about 1.2 per cent after the announcement before dipping back to trade roughly flat....
...Shares in dairy producers listed in Australia and New Zealand rose on Wednesday despite the price of milk products dipping to an eight-month low overnight....
...The Hang Seng index in Hong Kong was up 0.8 per cent following on from fresh records on Wall Street overnight while Japan’s Topix struggled to join the rally, dipping 0.1 per cent....
...Hao Zhou, an economist at Commerzbank, said he was more surprised by the slowdown in retail sales than, in particular, industrial production dipping below 6 per cent....
...Gold is not benefiting from a weaker greenback and dipping borrowing costs, the yellow metal slipping $4 to $1,233 an ounce....
...Equivalent maturity German Bunds are adding 1bp to 0.10 per cent and the euro is dipping just 9 pips to $1.1367....
...Selling there was widespread, with pipeline operators, exploration and production companies, oilfield servicers and integrated oil companies all facing losses....
...Some firms say it is too early, but others are dipping a toe into the water....
...“They’re dipping their toes in the water and seeing how this plays,” said Brad Adgate, senior vice-president of research at Horizon Media, an independent media agency....
...The technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite advanced 3.5 per cent for the quarter, despite dipping lower on Tuesday, although the Dow Jones Industrial Average finished 0.3 per cent lower for the quarter....
...Newly crowned King Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud has been dipping into the rainy-day fund to pay public sector salaries and development projects while oil prices are low....
...Yet the share of total marketing dollars devoted to outdoor is declining slightly as ad spending on the Internet grows, dipping to 6.5 per cent in 2013 from 6.7 per cent in 2011....
...Other companies are dipping their toes into social media waters....
...He added: “Strategies that automatically get more aggressive as stocks are dipping, that’s really what people are looking for.”...
...Yet its new dealmaking – with the group dipping its toe back into European banking – is a lot more modest in scale....
...“The bulk of the decline is from the UK bonus tax, which the company has not yet disclosed but we estimate at $525m,” he wrote....
...Overall revenues fell slightly, dipping to $30.9bn from $31.1bn in the same quarter a year ago....
...US stocks struggled for direction as investors cycled out of financial and technology shares and into companies tied to the physical economy....
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