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...Allspring’s VanCronkhite said he had invested in fast-food chain Wendy’s, which is piloting new drive-through ordering machines that run on Google’s generative AI....
...Tellingly, no listed British company has dropped the S-word in a filing or investor call over the past three years. But bosses do not work for the public — they work for shareholders....
...He argued on X that even delivering the current baseline spending on defence of 2.3 per cent of national income in the next parliament would “require even deeper cuts to other department[s]”....
...Disney shares are up about 6 per cent this year, underperforming the broader S&P 500, which has gained about 24 per cent....
...Trian has outperformed the S&P 500 since its 2005 inception. Two of Peltz’s sons, Matt and Diesel, work at Trian. And Brad, another son, works for a Wendy’s franchisee....
...Mitsotakis has been in longstanding discussions with British Museum chair George Osborne about the potential for a loan agreement....
...: one focused on the story’s fraught relationships.The resulting show takes a workmanlike trundle through a story that will be familiar to anyone who has seen 2014’s Benedict Cumberbatch-starring film The...
...HS2’s price tag has more than doubled from the original budget of £33bn a decade ago when the line was originally envisaged to run from London to Birmingham before splitting into two sections to Manchester...
...So when former chancellor George Osborne gave evidence last week, his robust response to the questions was to be expected (“Osborne insists austerity gave financial ‘flex’ for pandemic”, Report, June 21)...
...Recent examples include 2020’s Miss Marx, which starred Romola Garai as Eleanor, daughter of Karl Marx, and employed a chaotic combination of techniques including dance sequences, lots of fourth-wall-smashing...
...As chancellor, George Osborne introduced a dividend allowance of £5,000 in 2015 to protect small shareholders. However, Philip Hammond reduced the allowance to £2,000 from April 2018....
...RBI’s 33 per cent ebitda margin is a third less than McDonald’s, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence....
...So in one way, it is a good day for Sunak when David Cameron, George Osborne and Boris Johnson all attack his plan to scrap HS2’s northern leg....
...How to ensure different regulations are interoperable between nations and provide the same safeguards will be at the core of discussions at the summit, which is taking place alongside the G7’s Hiroshima...
...The S&P 500 did not fall by more than 10 per cent, but climbed over 20 per cent (though driven mostly by just seven tech stocks)....
...Wendy Edelberg and Louise Sheiner of the Brookings Institution estimate that the immediate spending cuts would be incredibly painful....
...Films that he turned down included M*A*S*H, The French Connection, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Superman (the latter because he couldn’t countenance wearing a cape)....
...Widely regarded as a flop, this anomaly was introduced by George Osborne to boost peer-to-peer lending, attracting just £144mn of inflows in 2021-22....
...Oliver, who was guest editor of BBC Radio 4’s Today programme on Tuesday, said he was “prioritising the gap between the free school lunch kids and the working poor . . ....
...First, as the Independent’s Jon Stone observes in a handy Twitter thread, it is hard to see how it is logistically possible to turn Old Oak Common into HS2’s terminus, even temporarily, without putting unmanageable...
...The people and shows I want to see but don’t, because of the hours taken up by my job(s)....
...George Osborne, former Tory chancellor, told Channel 4’s The Andrew Neil Show on Sunday that Johnson was “interested in becoming PM again” and would use any instrument to hit Sunak “over the head”....
...Transport minister Wendy Morton this week called the extra £4bn to £5bn cost of building the station underground “an absolutely crazy amount of money”....
...The fund ended 2022 down 10 per cent, according to people who have seen the numbers, compared with a 19 per cent decline in the S&P 500....
...What was John Osborne’s next play after Look Back in Anger? Which of C S Lewis’s Narnia Chronicles is a prequel to the rest of the series?...
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