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...Billionaire Icap founder Michael Spencer used £50,000 of cash from him and three friends from their company bonuses in 1986....
...Very strong sales performance in July After the final 6 weeks in June saw sales per site per week rise +30% y/y, Persimmon saw an acceleration in sales with +49% y/y sales rate since July up to now....
...Margins were flat y/y for FY’20 overall, implying H2 +50bps y/y. Cash conversion was solid at c88%, leaving Net Debt/EBITDA at 2.2x. Q: Has the company’s outlook/guidance changed?...
...AB Foods, Kingfisher and Marks & Spencer become our new top picks....
...“Specifically, consensus calls for 10.0% y/y domestic sub growth in Q4 (an 80 bps decline in y/y growth vs. Q3) and our search index points to 11.5% growth (50 bps acceleration in y/y growth vs....
...As Tim Cook embraced Oscar winner Octavia Spencer in front of a phalanx of press photographers, the star power briefly banished a blustery, rain-flecked March day at Apple Park....
...JD Sports’ shares duly rose another 5 per cent, taking their 12-month gain to nearly 50 per cent, and the company’s value beyond that of black cardie and grey Y-front seller Marks and Spencer, to the threshold...
...His site soon attracted controversial rightwing figures, including Richard Spencer and Alex Jones, who had been suspended or banned from other social networks....
...I was surprised therefore when I recently went to a showing of wines from Marks and Spencer, whose buying team seems to be more interested in intrinsic wine quality than most, by how many wines they were...
...“The preconception is that Irish whiskey is bland but these whiskies really prove that it’s not so,” says Nuala’s head bartender Spencer Large....
...The growing anxiety about supply comes as the production of lithium remains dominated by a handful of companies: Albemarle, Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile, and Chinese producers Tianqi Lithium and Ganfeng...
...Marc Bolland has announced he will step down, even as Marks & Spencer, the business he runs, published lousy numbers for general merchandise sales over Christmas....
...Alan Clarke, head of European fixed income strategy, Scotiabank I am expecting CPI inflation to peak at 3% y/y towards the end of 2017....
...Alan Clarke, head of European fixed income strategy, Scotiabank I expect UK GDP growth to slow from 2.1% y/y during 2016, down to 1.5% y/y on average during 2017. You can look at this two ways....
...PPI y/y est. -3.3% (prior -2.6%) In the US, the Fed chair Janet Yellen appears before Congress to discuss the central bank’s plans for supervision and regulation of the financial system....
...If you haven’t already read Spencer Dale’s speech on the New Economics of Oil“, go and do that now....
...“[Almost] everyone expects their favourite business school to be in the top X, where X is a small number, within Y years, where Y is also a small number.”...
...Beached wail A push by chief executive Marc Bolland to revive the fashion credentials of Marks and Spencer deploys famous women as models....
...With Ryanair volumes down 4 per cent y-o-y, we consider this a strong performance.”...
...The brothers started their first business in Limerick but moved to California prompted by interest from Y Combinator, the renowned accelerator program....
...Or are we to conclude that hedge funds will make money again once markets are, y’know, easier to navigate. We also like the euphemistic use of vastly different fees....
...A former head of the food arm of Marks and Spencer, Mr Whiteside was appointed in August 2011 to turn round Punch at the time of its demeger....
...And, finally, the overall UK winner goes on to vie for the World Entrepreneur of the Year title in Monte Carlo, won, in 2010, by Michael Spencer of Icap....
...With construction likely to follow, but lag this rise in demand, prices are likely to be driven higher and RICS implies HPI c 10 per cent y/y by mid-2014....
...The awards programme was founded by E&Y to help entrepreneurs achieve their potential....
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