Manchester United's American owners, the Glaziers, listed the soccer club on the New York Stock Exchange in August and its growing commercial success is highly dependent on performances on the pitch, according to Joshua Raymond, a market strategist at London-based financial services firm, CityIndex.

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Sarah Brown, director of the York Glaziers Trust, which carried out the restoration of the five panels displayed in the orb, said the minster was "a great treasure house of stained glass".

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Broken windows would stimulate glaziers, but the shift from consumption to building repairs would necessarily depress others.

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