Pall Mall News
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U.K. stocks climbed, with the FTSE 100 Index extending its highest level in three weeks, as a report showed Britain avoided a triple-dip recession.
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British American Tobacco Plc, Europe’s largest cigarette maker, reported first-quarter revenue growth that beat estimates as the maker of Pall Mall and Dunhill raised prices to offset falling consumption.
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Reynolds American Inc. , the second- largest U.S. tobacco company, plans to raise prices on all of its cigarette brands after it increased its share of U.S. smokers in the first quarter.
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Andrew J. Hall, the former Citigroup Inc. oil trader whose pay package of about $100 million ensnared him in the fight over compensation at bailed- out banks in 2009, is selling handmade lavender soap and grass- fed Angus beef from a farm in Reading, Vermont.
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New Zealand is set to become the first country after Australia to pass a law requiring that cigarettes be sold in plain packages.
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Bank of America Corp. has held settlement negotiations with some states over home foreclosures separately from talks with a larger group of state and federal officials, two people familiar with the matter said.
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French bankers in London, who dine at the Michelin two-star Connaught restaurant in Mayfair and swim at the nearby Royal Automobile Club on Pall Mall, may soon have a Socialist representing them at the National Assembly in Paris.
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R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. should be punished with paying an award of at least $10 billion to a man who developed cancer and emphysema from smoking, his lawyer, Willie Gary , said in an opening statement at a Florida trial.
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Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s second-largest maker of mobile phones, is examining InterDigital Inc.’s patent portfolio after being approached to make a bid, according to two people familiar with the matter.
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British American Tobacco Plc, Europe’s largest cigarette maker, said shipments declined during the first nine months of the year because of lower consumption in Brazil and western Europe.
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