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...As Wall Street banks were forced to close their proprietary trading desks after the crisis, independent “prop shops” filled some of the gaps....
...The S&P 500, which had its biggest rally in a month on Wednesday, rose 0.2 per cent to 2,108.86 while the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 0.2 per cent to 18,039.37....
...The S&P 500 gained 0.1 per cent to 2,039.33, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average advanced 0.2 per cent to 17,652.79. The Nasdaq Composite climbed 0.1 per cent to 4,680.14....
...Londis runs 1,630 convenience stores, while Budgens has 167 franchised shops focused on groceries....
...The decision comes just days after RadioShack, the struggling electronics chain, said it would close as many as 1,100 shops as it consolidates its business....
...The front-month S&P 500 futures contract suggested Wall Street’s benchmark would add 2 points to Monday’s record close of 1,808....
...Occasionally in strange places: a tent, a kebab shop, a public toilet....
...“I buy guns like other people buy golf clubs,” chuckles 58-year-old Wilson, who owns more than half-a-dozen handguns, including two Colts, a Glock 17 and a Smith & Wesson PPK/S....
...Weekend headlines from the FT and other UK media*: From The FT, - M&S’s Bolland puts innovation on menu amid caution - Chiswick Park up for sale - Citi banker’s relief over EMI verdict...
...Carl Wilson works at the Prop Shop, one of the businesses that lease land from Pinewood Studios. “The worry about where your next job will come from is always at the back of your mind,” he says....
...I’m curious about guns, but I’d never shoot myself, right? Somebody put a recycling bin next to this bench, so I finish the gin....
...Wilson said free newspaper distributors were some of the project’s most consistent patrons....
...Colin Wu, Bid8’s founder and the new venture’s chief executive, says US-made products have a reputation for higher quality in China....
...Cruise’s Aviators (pictured) in Top Gun (1986) had a similarly uplifting effect for Ray-Ban....
...In any case, she had gone back to wearing her own clothes from an Alaskan thrift shop....
...Thirkell, himself up from the BBC equivalent of the shop floor – he began as a clerk in 1975 – is often credited with inventing the new-style business programmes....
...There were high level splits at M&S. In July, Stuart Rose, M&S chief executive put on a brave face over the departure of his closest colleague, Charles Wilson, who resigned to become head of Booker....
...The streets are now clogged with Humvees, armoured troop carriers, and soldiers and Swat teams armed with machine guns and grenade launchers....
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