The record labels are said to be concerned that without a recognised specialist music retailer on the high street margins could be squeezed even further by cut-price supermarket and internet offers.
While Debenhams reported virtually flat sales and falling margins, Street said margins had held up at John Lewis and that fashion and beauty sales rose 8.5%.
An article on Page 10 this weekend about the new Wall Street movie "Margin Call" reverses the names of the two characters in the 1987 movie "Wall Street" who slugged each other in a scene in Central Park.
Like Mr. Chandor's talky 2011 Wall Street drama, "Margin Call," set on the day a Lehman-type firm struggles not to go under, the taciturn "All Is Lost," due in theaters Oct. 18, is an existential horror story about trying to survive the worst moment of your life — in this case a crippled boat at sea — as panic rises.
If that happens, it will damage Wall Street profit margins.
With sales falling, he said, companies hoping to make their budgets and give Wall Street the margins they promised decide that "getting money back is their first concern".
"There are three ways to make a living in this business," says Jeremy Irons, playing a Wall Street C.E.O. in "Margin Call".
Chandor, who demonstrated a vivid talent for dialogue, mood, and characterization in the Wall Street meltdown movie "Margin Call" (2011), here displays an ability to furiously carve up and then integrate a confined space.
In the fourth quarter of 2011, Romney outraised Obama among the top firms on Wall Street by a margin of 11 to 1. His top three campaign contributions are from employees of Goldman Sachs ($496,430), JPMorgan ($317,400) and Morgan Stanley ($277,850).
Such as actor Zachary Quinto's role in the 2011 Wall Street thriller film Margin Call, who plays an associate in an investment firm's risk assessment management department.
