Month: April 2020

Cartier kicks off 2020 with the new Maillon de Cartier. It looks watchmakers are increasingly focusing their efforts on creating interesting bracelets for both their men’s and women’s novelties. Debuting as a Limited Edition Cartier collection, the new Maillon de Cartier twists Cartier’s classic link design into a compellingly versatile women’s watch which pulls its
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Books, puppies and her beauty routine are helping her through isolation As much as the phrase “Celebs, they’re just like us!” gets thrown around, the truth is…they’re usually not. If social media has shown us anything, it’s that a lot of celebrities—with their wealth and privilege—can pretty much do anything. From throwing a two-year-old a
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Getty Images More than 88 million individuals received a stimulus check from the IRS in the last three weeks, according to data from the federal agency. The Treasury Department and the IRS have distributed a total of $157.9 billion in so-called Economic Impact Payments. The federal government began depositing the cash into taxpayers’ bank accounts
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United Airlines planes, including a Boeing 737 MAX 9 model, are pictured at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, Texas, March 18, 2019. Loren Elliott | Reuters Masks or other face coverings on Friday became mandatory for United Airlines‘ flight attendants, a measure aimed at stopping the spread of the coronavirus. The flight attendants’ labor union is urging
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Standfast & Barracks was awarded the prestigious Queen’s Award for International Trade 2020, on Monday 20 April 2020. The Queen’s Awards for Enterprise is an awards programme for British businesses and other organisations who excel at international trade, innovation or sustainable development. They are the highest official UK awards for British businesses. Standfast & Barracks
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Source: American Express Credit card issuer American Express posted a 76% drop in first-quarter profit on Friday, as it set aside $2.6 billion to cover potential losses stemming from the coronavirus outbreak. The pandemic has hammered the global economy, pushing companies to layoff employees by the millions. That, in turn, could weigh on credit card
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Collage by Lizzie Gill (Images: Courtesy of Nasser Nouri, Salma Abdelaziz, Sebastiaan Knoops, and the author) I had always viewed becoming a mother as perhaps the least extraordinary thing a woman could do. This was not to say that I didn’t want to have children—I did very much—but I was wary of the consequences, of
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When it comes to evaluating the financial performance of top movies, it isn’t about what a film grosses at the box office. The true tale is told when production budgets, P&A, talent participations and other costs collide with box office grosses and ancillary revenues from VOD to DVD and TV. To get close to that mysterious end
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Among President Donald Trump’s most dangerous methods of responding to the coronavirus outbreak has been his passion for hyping unproven COVID-19 treatments, suggesting that drugs like hydroxychloroquine are a panacea for the deadly virus even as medical experts insist otherwise. “What do you have to lose? Take it,” Trump said about the anti-malaria drug in
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Steven Eisman, senior portfolio manager at Neuberger Berman. Katie Rooney | CNBC Renowned investor Steve Eisman said Thursday U.S. banks are an attractive investment following the coronavirus-induced market sell-off. “I actually think long-term, the best cyclical play out there are the very large banks,” Eisman, senior portfolio manager at Neuberger Berman, told CNBC’s “Fast Money.”
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Taylor Swift has slammed Scooter Braun and her ex-label Big Machine Records, calling their decision to put out a new live album of Swift performances, “shameless greed.” T-Swift has been publicly feuding with Braun since 2019, when his company Ithaca Holdings purchased Big Machine Label Group, including the master recordings of Swift’s first six albums.
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The BBC telethon aiming to raise millions of pounds for charities affected by the coronavirus pandemic is due to take place tonight. The three-hour long Big Night In, which is the first joint project between BBC Children in Need and Comic Relief, will offer music performances, entertainment, competitions and celebrity appearances from 7pm. The government
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When Jyri Engestrom, a 42-year-old entrepreneur who runs a small early stage venture fund in San Francisco, California, read an article in the Guardian newspaper about an Italian village that tested its entire community for the novel coronavirus and was reportedly able to eradicate the virus by doing so, he was inspired. Engestrom wanted to do
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