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...That is exactly the holiday gift shareholders want....
...After being denied access to government funds, Virgin Atlantic was forced to raise more than £1bn from the private sector. Byers also pointed to the drag from higher fuel prices....
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...They may live in a notorious no-vacation-nation such as the US, the only advanced economy that does not guarantee workers paid holidays....
...Here’s some highlights from the holiday period....
...Thank you for the poignant reminder of the difference between a family trip and a vacation (“Holidays from hell”, Life & Arts, August 12)....
...He talked about how he was raising funds to restore numerous pieces, including the most ancient inscription in Italy, from the eighth century BC....
...For many well-off people, the first tangible effect of climate change will be that it shifts where we go on vacation: after all, that’s easier than shifting where we live....
...We will see a change in the seasons over the next seven days as Thanksgiving in the US says goodbye to the autumn and gives way to Black Friday, the retail frenzy that begins the run-up to the holidays....
...French hotel group Accor is in talks with investment vehicle Dubai Holding to fund the roughly €800mn development of two upmarket cruise liners under the Orient Express brand, in the latest example of Middle...
...The prize fund for the first event at the Weissenhaus resort was already $200k....
..., a 20-year allocation of lottery funds....
...That is exacerbated by the frequency of market closures on Mondays that coincide with US holidays. The cost issue is real....
...Still, many holiday companies, including UK budget airline easyJet, have reported little impact from the heatwave as demand booms for leisure travel....
...Many quants had to intervene manually in their systems and sell microcap stocks while markets were closed for the Chinese lunar new year holiday, people familiar with the move said — a rare step in the quant...
...More on the war: Hamas said an Israeli air strike yesterday killed three sons of Ismail Haniyeh, its political leader, on the Muslim holiday of Eid al Fitr. 2....
...As well as asking whether taking a vacation made people feel less in need of antidepressant medication — it does — they also found that the more people were on holiday simultaneously, the happier everyone...
...Ageing, complex and otherwise tricky IT systems are a remorseless source of misery, not just at vacation time....
...“To say that I’m paying a credit card statement with funds coming from Fulton County or the state of Georgia would not be an accurate statement because the funds could have very well come from my private...
...Nats, which is a public-private partnership owned by a group of airlines — including British Airways and easyJet — pension funds and the UK government, runs the airspace over the UK and the eastern part...
...set piece in British parliamentary theatrics is expected to herald inheritance and business tax cuts with the promise that these, and other measures such as expanding the role of the pensions lifeboat fund...
...But 75bp in cuts would still leave the funds rate at 4½-4¾%—a level 200bp above the FOMC’s median estimate of the longer-term funds rate — at a time when year-on-year core PCE inflation is close to 2%....
...announcement of a second payment comes a week after an FT investigation revealed the extent of the firm’s former chief executive Crastes’s personal entanglements with Windhorst, which included going on a family holiday...
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