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Primark needs New Year resolution from investors

New year, new you. And Associated British Foods Plc’s Primark is fully behind the January fitness fad. Strange, then, that investors are staying home on the sofa. Leggings, lightweight jackets and the like are on offer in colors and designs that wouldn’t look out of place in upmarket athleisure specialist Sweaty Betty. But Primark’s leggings are cheaper by a long ...

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Trump shouldn’t waste another N Korea summit

US President Donald Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un have agreed to meet for a second summit at the end of next month. Agreeing to this was probably a mistake — but to have any hope of producing results, Trump will have to prepare much more carefully than he did last time. There’s been virtually no progress in ...

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Tariffs are killing American steel sector with kindness

One year in, how’s President Donald Trump’s mission to save the US steel and aluminum sectors going? Judging by the stock prices of metal producers, you could be mistaken for thinking he’s trying to destroy the industry instead. The aggregate market capitalisation of the seven major US primary steel and aluminum producers — Nucor Corp., US Steel Corp., AK Steel ...

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