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...The next year they launched the After Hours update to GTA Online, featuring missions in which players could run a nightclub and meet digital versions of DJs such as Dixon and The Blessed Madonna....
...UK jobs boom losing momentum, new data suggest Dixons Carphone Dixons Carphone reports interim results, with a slump in half-year profits expected as a fall in customer confidence and a weak mobile phone...
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...Travis Perkins’ chief executive identified a “DIFM culture that has curtailed the era of ‘DIY.” So it has proved....
...Cash return hopes meant Travis Perkins was in demand on Monday. JPMorgan Cazenove called Travis “a high quality play on a UK housing market in the early stages of recovery”....
...Travis Perkins (Consumer Goods) 117. Kraft Heinz (Consumer Goods) 118. Schroders (Finance) 119. Gilead Sciences (Biotech & Pharma) 120. Royal Mail (Delivery Services) 121....
...Dixons climbed 9.6 per cent to 40p after management edged higher 2013 earnings guidance after reporting 13 per cent UK same-store sales growth....
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...This was echoed by John Browett, chief executive of Dixons Retail, who said shoppers were prepared to splash out on must-have items, such as iPads and Kindles.● Travis Perkins, the UK’s largest builders...
...Travis Perkins lost 4.7 per cent to 883½p after a cautious outlook overshadowed in-line results, with the builders’ merchant bringing forward cost-saving targets to counter weaker than hoped for trading....
...BSS was 5.1 per cent higher to 434¼p after the Office of Fair Trading cleared its acquisition by Travis Perkins. ....
...The Featured Artists Coalition – whose signatories include George Michael, Annie Lennox and members of Blur, Radiohead and Travis – said it supported Ms Allen’s campaign to “alert music lovers to the threat...
...Travis Perkins rose 6.8 per cent to 482¾p on continued speculation that it could be a takeover target for Irish rival Grafton....
...Among mid-caps, Galiform, which owns the Howdens joinery chain, rose 4.8 per cent to 87p on rumours of interest from builders’ merchant Travis Perkins, up 0.4 per cent at £11.30....
...The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity and the Renewal of Civilization By Thomas Homer-Dixon Souvenir £15, 448 pages FT bookshop price: £12 The Canadian political scientist Thomas Homer-Dixon takes...
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