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...On his return to Ghana in 1969, Larbi joined the department of architecture at KNUST and went on to design Kumasi’s National Cultural Center and the Kumasi head office of the Bank of Ghana....
...Earnings: Investors will get further clues on the mood of the American shopper from several consumer companies reporting today, including discount chain Dollar General, department store operator Macy’s and...
...Macy’s illustrated this nicely on Thursday. The veteran US department store operator triggered a rally in its shares with an outlook that was simply more upbeat than those of Target and Walmart....
...Nordstrom warns of slowing consumer demand Shares in the department store chain tumbled in after-hours trading after it cut its sales outlook for the year owing to a recent and significant deceleration in...
...Midnight mass will also be celebrated at the site of Jesus’s birth, at the Church of the Nativity on Manger Square in the West Bank town of Bethlehem....
...But US banks could encounter pitfalls at any moment....
...Jeffrey Gennette, chief executive of department store group Macy’s, said last week that the recovery had “modulated” and the performance of the company’s outlets in states including Texas, Arizona and Florida...
...Separately, the US Treasury department has reached a deal to bail out YRC, a struggling US trucking company....
...In Hong Kong, the collapse of the tourism sector offers a grim foretaste for the west....
...In corporate earnings, US retailers Macy’s, Walmart and JCPenney, the struggling department store chain, will report quarterly results....
...But it predicts department store sales will drop 6 per cent, worse than the 2.8 per cent decline in the 2018 season....
...Eight foreign secretaries respond (FT, WSJ) Retail blues Macy’s led a broad sell-off that wiped more than $30bn from the value of US retailers on Thursday after the department store chain cut sales and...
...It is only a 20-minute drive from Jerusalem, but Bethlehem lies on the other side of the towering wall that separates Israel from the occupied West Bank....
...We followed along with FDR, Eisenhower, JFK, Reagan, Clinton and Bush et. al in their postwar course because we wanted to or had to: there was no alternative worthy of considering or competition....
...A person close to the auction said the UK launch of Goldman’s retail bank, Marcus, had raised competition concerns....
...I have seen no data to show how Facebook and Twitter et al advance happiness or social cohesion....
...Over the summer he initiated a campaign against Hudson's Bay Corporation, the department store/property titan known for such chains as Saks, Lord & Taylor, Hudson's Bay and Kaufhof....
...Her agency is one of three dealing with cannabis — the public health department is regulating manufacturers, while the food and agriculture department is regulating cultivators....
...It is something he is keen to point out in Paris, when showing me around the 17th-century building, extensively rebuilt in the 19th century, that was once a warehouse for the department store Galeries Lafayette...
...(FT) US retail shudders Shares in Macy’s sank as much as 13 per cent as sales in its department stores slumped nearly 6 per cent....
...Greene herself steers clear of criticising Amazon but she angrily sums up the challenge from Whistl et al like this: “This is not the kind of competition that drives efficiency....
...The device was first sold at Drouot three years ago by auctioneers Delorme et Collin du Bocage....
...No surprise to see GMO et al flag up “impact on third parties” from the start....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...An eight-story Baghdad Mall is being built by a Turkish developer, and Maximall, a huge new department store, attracts thousands of shoppers....
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