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...Tony Freund, editorial director at 1stDibs, an ecommerce site that specialises in luxury decorative arts, says orders for quilts have increased 25 per cent year-on-year....
...The hero of this blackboard jungle drama directed by Tony Kaye (American History X) and scripted by ex-teacher Carl Lund has a Camus-like stricken calm....
...“Genuinely, development is getting harder,” says Rachael Bartels, managing director of Accenture’s mining group....
...In Hamburg, a group of investors led by German property magnet Wilhelm Bartels paid more than €350m for the land rights to build the Bavaria complex....
...But Ms Bartels said a “successful bottom” was likely to take weeks to build, with further testing of lows likely....
...Mary Ann Bartels, analyst at Merrill Lynch, said that the consensus second-quarter earnings growth rate for S&P 500 constituents rose from 12.3 per cent last week to 13.4 per cent....
...Smack of firmness Tony Blair, the British prime minister, has been cracking down on hooligans this week with his “respect agenda”....
...Mary Ann C Bartels, Merrill strategist, said in a report that 61 companies in the S&P 500 had reported third-quarter earnings by Monday....
...Mary Ann Bartels, equity trading strategist, said the expected year-on-year earnings growth rate in the third quarter had been steadily rising to 17.7 per cent....
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