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...The plunge means this could be the right time to buy into battery technologies, says Kenneth Lamont, senior fund analyst at Morningstar....
...Lord (Norman) Lamont, the former chancellor, was more cutting about Labour’s travails. “I . . . admired very much the speech made by Keir Starmer when he led for the Opposition [in the Commons]....
...The second was to allow foreign single-brand retailers, like Sweden’s Ikea and the UK’s Marks & Spencers, to own their Indian stores outright....
...Foreign single-brand retailers, such as Sweden’s Ikea and the UK’s Marks and Spencer, have been given the right to own their Indian stores outright. However....
...You can then go to a 1m sq ft shopping mall on the weekends and shop at Zara or Marks and Spencer, eat at McDonald’s or Pizza Hut, and watch the latest Bollywood or Hollywood movie....
...Additional reporting by Elizabeth Rigby, James Lamont and James Wilson...
...spencer.jakab@ft.com...
...Sir Gus and Sir Stuart Rose chatted over a glass of champagne, amid continuing speculation about a role in the government for the departing Marks and Spencer chairman....
...Barclay’s chairman Marcus Agius appeared thoughtful in conversation with Icap chief executive Michael Spencer, while cabinet secretary Sir Gus O’Donnell circulated around the Great Hall....
...Spencer’s, a flourishing retailer in West Bengal, owned by the RPG Group, was founded by John William Spencer in 1863....
...Other companies, including Royal Enfield Motorcycles and the retailer Spencer’s, still use names that have lived on during India’s 62 years of independence....
...There is a more direct purpose to my political tourism, aside from whatever pleasure is to be gained from mornings with Brown and dinners with Lamont....
...At the foot of the staircase of Number 10 I’m looking at the portrait of Spencer Perceval, the only British prime minister to have been assassinated, when up pops the present incumbent, larger than life....
...However, UK retailers Tesco and Marks and Spencer are expected to open stores soon....
...Other architects of note in Oak Park at the time of Wright were Robert Spencer, his great friendfor many years, George Washington Maher and Thomas Tallmadge....
...Chief executive Michael Spencer launched the event 20 years ago when the firm had only four staff; it now has 3,000....
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