Hints and tips:
...We’ll take the over, but the margin could be slim. All thoughts welcome: robert.armstrong@ft.com and ethan.wu@ft.com....
...Shares are down 50 per cent from where they were at the start of May so the chances of raising money also look slim to nil....
...The odds of any start-up investor making a 100 times or even 20 times return on their money are normally slim....
...Paltrow’s look is channelling the Aspen skiers photographed by Slim Aarons in the late ’60s, with their turtlenecks, tailored pants and striped sunhats....
...That is leaving slim pickings for independent research houses, priced out of the market by cross-subsidisation of research within the largest banks....
...Trian and Jefferies control about 41 per cent, so a slim margin of uncommitted minorities will decide the issue. Unless Trian offers concessions, they should consider backing Global Value....
...Two modules stacked as a sideboard, with capacity for about 400 LPs, starts at £579....
...He’s Slim Shady, the puerile psychopath who made his debut in the Detroit rapper’s 1999 breakthrough, The Slim Shady LP....
...JPMorgan already owns a slim majority, but the remaining 49 per cent stake will cost it Rmb7bn ($1bn) — a figure which our colleague Peter Smith noted as early as April....
...Reaching for new funds to see it through the pandemic, mattress company Serta Simmons Bedding took $200m in new loans from a slim majority of creditors who, in addition to putting in the fresh money, saw...
...Chances that the deal will close before the end of December are looking slim, say multiple people familiar with the process. That’s not to say there isn’t incentive to get things done sooner....
...While the sector is undoubtedly depressed, some people involved with the company also identify questionable operational moves such as trialling “Tex-Mex” food at the Italian restaurant....
...Colm Gibson, managing director at Berkeley Research Group, said it was part of a long-term trend for water companies to “slim down and focus on their core business”....
...Even if the bill has a very slim-to-zero chance of making it through, it will put pressure on Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee, who is considered so centrist he might as well be called Goldilocks...
...For Philip Larkin, sexual intercourse began in 1963 — “between the end of the Chatterley ban /And The Beatles’ first LP”....
...The two activist funds — among the world’s largest — have taken sizeable stakes in the company and demanded that it slim down it operations to turn its business round and regain investor confidence....
...Prezzo, which employs 4,500 staff, will also shutter its Tex Mex-style sub-brand Chimichanga, which has 33 branches. News of its CVA was reported earlier by Sky....
...The grocery market has been rocked by Amazon’s purchase of Whole Foods, with fears that the ecommerce titan could bring its low cost ethos to the supermarket industry and weigh on already slim margins....
...The Bass brothers made about $5.1m from their Eminem copyrights last year, according to Royalty Flow, on a catalogue including tracks from “The Slim Shady LP” and “The Marshall Mathers” albums....
...The New York Times and Wall Street Journal have offered buyouts to slim down staff. The Guardian is shifting to a smaller print format....
...Mr Schroder said operators needed to consolidate to shave costs amid slim profit margins....
...The parties could request that more judges in the appeals court consider the case, or ask the US Supreme Court to hear the appeal, although their chances of success on either front are seen as relatively slim...
...“The possibility, albeit still a slim one, of an interest rate hike in September is returning,” said Michael Metcalfe, head of global macro strategy at State Street Global Markets....
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