peer
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The peer, who gave up his Labour Party membership over the weekend, is set to stand down from the House of Lords on Wednesday.
From BBC
The slightly higher provisioning in its French retail business is a bit negative, though the solid top line in this division reads positively for its French peers, they note.
—Software stocks in Asia followed U.S. and European peers down.
Zurich approached its smaller peer three times in June and put forward two offers in January, Beazley said last month.
In a note Monday, Wedbush analyst Dan Ives wrote that recent surges in memory prices could represent “somewhat greater headwinds” for Super Micro relative to its peers due to the company’s “opportunistic” sourcing strategies.
From MarketWatch
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