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...Welcome to the fourth and final episode of our summer Food & Drink mini-series, where every Wednesday an expert teaches us something new. Today, we meet pastry chef Natasha Pickowicz....
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...The S&P 500 struggled for direction for most of the session and ended 0.04 per cent lower at 2,926.17, having closed at a record on Tuesday....
...(1.17) $/¥ 109.34 (109.53) £/$ 1.29 (1.29) €/£ 0.9101 (0.9106) Commodities ($) Brent Crude (ICE) down -0.04 at 50.99 Light Crude (Nymex) down -0.03 at 47.06 100 Oz Gold (Comex) up +0.40 at 1,287 Copper...
...Online fashion retailer Boohoo has upgraded its full-year forecasts for the second time in four months, after a series of recent acquisitions helped it to double sales in the run-up to Christmas....
...Nor does it represent the first in a series of suspiciously short-notice shorting opportunities....
...The Ifo business climate index in Germany rose for a sixth successive month to a series high while the French Insee survey improved for the third consecutive month....
...Markets at 0758 GMT Asian markets Nikkei 225 down -135.04 (-0.60%) at 22,262 Topix down -4.11 (-0.23%) at 1,760 Hang Seng up +61.97 (+0.21%) at 29,261 US markets S&P 500 down -6.79 (-0.26%) at 2,579 DJIA...
...Sub prime lender Provident Financial has announced a series of management changes at its troubled doorstep lending business, where news of a collapse in collections following a botched reorganisation saw...
...Until mid-June, GGB 4¾ % 04/17/2019 traded at below its face value — a fact that critics could argue makes the 2.6 per cent nominal premium a sting for Greek taxpayers. Is this a scandal?...
...It has become so largely through a series of acquisitions, which will likely continue....
...Dixons Carphone’s resilience emerges after a series of warnings from high street names about slowdown in big-ticket purchases, as inflation and indebtedness start to bite....
...(-0.13%) at 2,388 DJIA up +8.01 (+0.04%) at 20,958 Nasdaq unchanged 0.00 (0.00%) at 6,073 European markets Eurofirst 300 up +0.64 (+0.04%) at 1,528 FTSE100 down -15.52 (-0.21%) at 7,235 CAC 40 unchanged...
...In that time, shares in Anglo have fallen 17 per cent. No wonder Mr Cutifani wanted to focus on copper and De Beers diamonds....
...And these protests are just the latest in a series of disputes for the miner, which last reported an annual profit in 2013 and has seen its share price fall more than 90 per cent since then....
...Anglo told investors that it had got net debt down to $8.5bn, driven by improving cash flow and a series of asset disposals....
...Wall Street analysts had been expecting Alphabet to report pro forma earnings of $8.04 a share and net revenue of $16.8bn....
...But a series of workouts of the kind pointed to by the Rathbones deal would be a private sector solution and therefore better....
...From 08:00GMT there are a series of European consumer price inflation readings, kicking off with Denmark, with Norway and Portugal to follow....
...Shire’s increased first quarter sales were broadly in line with market expectations, while earnings-per-share of $3.19 were well ahead of analysts’ consensus forecast for $3.04....
...Revenue rose 17 per cent to £267.6m in the second quarter. Pre-tax profit grew 1 per cent to £95.9m on an unadjusted basis, or 5 per cent on an adjusted basis....
...Markets at 0758 BST Asian markets Nikkei 225 up +457.08 (+2.70%) at 17,364 Topix up +27.90 (+2.04%) at 1,394 Hang Seng up +275.10 (+1.30%) at 21,511 US markets S&P 500 up +1.60 (+0.08%) at 2,102 DJIA up...
...The company operates a series of eateries such as Frankie & Benny’s....
...Brent, which struck an 11-year low of $36.04 on Monday, ticked up 0.2 per cent to $36.43. Oil prices have been in sharp decline as crude inventories continue to rise at more than 1m barrels a day....
...Amblin Partners will produce movies that eOne will distribute across a series of territories. Films in production include The BFG and an HBO production featuring Breaking Bad star Bryan Cranston....
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