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...Now it is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to lure some of the planet’s top footballers to its shores, with French players N’Golo Kanté and Karim Benzema set to join Cristiano Ronaldo in its domestic...
...Or at least the Cigna C-suite....
...None of this is helping, but… Clearly we expect the UK’s lockdow n to trigger a recession, tipping RBS into loss in 2020e. We forecast a loss per share of 5.5p in 2020e....
...to c.4%) and grocery at 12%, diluted back by Fuel and Clothing (both c.-50%); 2) incremental opex of £500m; 3) sizeable offsets, especially in the guise of £450m of rate savings....
...£680m [freehold estate value of c£1.1bn and pre-IFRS16 net debt of c£420m] vs a current market cap of just c£250m). 1:00pm GMT - It’s another bazooka, another whatever-it-takes moment, another exercise...
...How much firepower does S&N have? We hear anywhere in the range of $3bn-$5bn....
...After growing up in the Washington, D.C., area and getting his MBA at the University of Utah, he’d come out to California in the late 1970s and never left....
...Gilead’s $11.2bn purchase of Pharmasset, a hepatitis C biotech, in 2012, brought with it one of the most lucrative drug franchises....
...Bombardier employs 4,000 people at four Belfast factories, and 1,000 of them are focused on making wings for the C Series jet in the of east of the city....
...If, however, the US administration abandons the WTO as a channel to settle disputes — it is already starving the organisation’s appellate body of judges — and resorts to unilateral actions like anti-dumping...
...“N-n-nooo,” he says. “You can’t ask. Fashion is about latent demand. You can’t research it. If I say, ‘what colour are you going to buy next fall?’...
...Ceci n’est pas un taxi, Uber has always insisted....
...— WTO head Roberto Azevêdo tells the FT a US move to block the appointment of new appellate judges is putting the institution’s dispute system at risk....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on December 26. ©2018 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...You could pin this on the pre-release snafu… /C O R R E C T I O N — Valeant Pharmaceuticals International, Inc./ March 15, 2016 In the news release, Valeant Pharmaceuticals Reports Preliminary Unaudited...
...Contrary to what some of its defenders may think, Lehman didn’t die because evil short-sellers conspired to bring it down....
...Today Reagan’s heirs are some of Medicare’s most militant defenders. In politics, as in law, possession is nine-tenths of the game....
...Hackathons have come a long way since they were the preserve of people fluent in Python, Java, C# or other programming languages that perplex the untrained....
...found guilty by a Chinese court of bribing doctors $84,000 Price of a 12-week course of Sovaldi, which cures hepatitis C $25bn Amount raised by Alibaba, the Chinese ecommerce company, when it went public...
...James C Scott, the Yale anthropologist, argued persuasively in his book The Art of Not Being Governed that the uplands are where people retreat to avoid civilisation....
...“[A]n intention to domicile in Canada should be a clear signal that the potential deal is about inversion more than anything else.”...
...Fuelling that ambition is a $33m round of venture capital raised this year from investors including Founders Fund, a team of prominent venture capitalists that includes Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal...
...At home, the tech companies portray themselves as defenders of their customers against government intrusion....
...The official state news agency issued daily updates on the visit which, although brief, pointedly referred to the private party as “a delegation of Google Inc of the US”....
...Evans is a staunch defender of QE and is an FOMC voting member this year....
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