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...The Covid-19 vaccine(s) will prove a shot in the arm for both the UK economy and its peers....
...The tech-heavy Nasdaq and the wider S&P 500 both declined in the same period....
...But for the UK, there are bigger issues much closer to home for the UK in 2017....
...Rifat, 45, co-operated with the US Department of Justice in a separate criminal probe that will see a “particularly important person” come before the US courts in days, London’s Southwark Crown Court heard...
...Mr Ellison had been a contender for the top spot at Home Depot having spent 12 years at the company, but lost out to Craig Menear, another veteran at the company....
...A similar challenge lies in the smart home market, where devices such as the internet fridge are solutions searching for a problem....
...(Financial Times) “U.S. prosecutors are seeking more than $13 billion from Bank of America to resolve federal and state investigations of the lender’s sale of bonds backed by home loans in the run-up to...
...US: Dell, Home Depot, JC Penney. “The Justice Department is investigating whether J.P....
...Securities Co. called Japan Industrial Partners Inc] a person with knowledge of the deal said Wednesday.”...
...//on.ft.com/18jQnzn Brent Declines to Three-Week Low Brent crude declined for a third day to its lowest intraday level in three weeks as manufacturing in China shrank and U.S. gasoline stockpiles increased...
...said in remarks published on Thursday, in what could be a important test of the nascent comeback in U.S.electronics manufacturing. http://reut.rs/Vqy1Ui Chinese groups await Cnooc-Nexen verdict Chinese...
..., Lee Kun Hee, in 1996, through to 2005’s V-shaped TVs and a claimed breakthrough in internal mobile-phone antennas in 2006....
..., oil gain Asian stocks rose for a seventh day and oil advanced before a monthly U.S. jobs report and data this weekend on Chinese industrial production....
...best performing markets http://bloom.bg/RB6rbT House prices rise in most Chinese cities Home prices rose in 53 of 70 cities officially tracked, the most in a year and a half as controls curbed new supply...
...Samsung won a partial victory against Apple in South Korea in its legal battle over technology patients but that failed to lift the company’s stock price....
...Additional reporting by Song Jung-a Related reading: Samsung/Apple – dynamic rivalry, beyondbrics Samung v Apple: the S Korean verdict, beyondbrics Samsung hits the acquisition trail, beyondbrics Lex in...
...Related reading: Samsung v Apple: no more playing nice, beyondbrics S Korea corporates: hard times away from the podium, beyondbrics Succession not just family affair in Asia, FT Lex in depth: Samsung, FT...
...bid to propel his property and brewing group beyond its home market with a S$8.8bn ($7.1bn) cash offer for Fraser and Neave, the Singapore conglomerate at the centre of a bid battle for one of Asia’s biggest...
...In earnings results, Home Depot , the biggest home improvement chain in the US by revenues, rose 3.6 per cent to $54.71 after beating earnings expectations....
...In many ways, it is following what Home Depot did three years earlier when it slowed growth, shut stores, cut costs and addressed inventory....
...HTC is partnering with Nvidia for the first time – using its Tegra 3 quad-core processor in its One X smartphone (it also unveiled a slimmer dual-core One S and a cheaper One V)....
...Home improvement retailers were boosted, with Masco rising 8.9 per cent to $9.82 and Home Depot adding 4.3 per cent to $41.93....
...and Home Depot....
...it on his blog while at home in the US, the FT reports....
...That followed positive data from Home Depot and Walmart on Tuesday. Consumer staples performed well for a second day running, rising 0.8 per cent. But, shares in some retailers were falling sharply....
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