Hints and tips:
...Through 1500, agricultural innovation, notably the introduction of a plow able to work heavy European soils, improved food protection, boosting growth to a rate that would have multiplied real GDP 10-fold...
...“I would expect them to at least look at an opco-propco structure”....
...Showing our vulnerability is critical, as well as remaining optimistic. The last thing I bought and loved is our Lee Radziwill Double bag....
...Succession planning has been a strength within IAG, with each OpCo role filled by promotions from elsewhere within the group – a vote for governance and culture: This is evidenced by movements between OpCos...
...“But if there’s friction — ie a pin code to your mobile device — then you might as well go to your mobile device and check [your finances] there.”...
...They hold N shares, but Naspers also has an A class. These grant 1,000 votes per share, many times more than even the famous Facebook class B shares....
...Those days displayed his tenacity and flexibility — as well as an ability to blend the best of his adopted home and his nurturing, education-focused southern Asian upbringing....
...At 1000 GMT, there is the German ZEW survey for January and, at 1500 GMT, the Euro area consumer confidence reading for January....
...Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today issued a notice of violation to Fiat Chrysler Automobiles N.V. and FCA US LLC (collectively FCA) for alleged violations of the Clean Air Act for installing and...
...Over the next five years he would work on three Lennon albums, as well as two for Springsteen and one for Patti Smith. “I didn’t have any sophistication....
...As well as the potential disposal of its controlling stake in Westinghouse, Toshiba is also pursuing a sale of its Nand memory chip business, the group’s main technology asset....
...During the Sydney lunch break, the ASX then advised all securities in the range of N to R would go into “pre-open” at 1pm Sydney time for 20 minutes. The market was suspended around 2.06pm Sydney time....
...Overall, St Modwen says that trading is going well. FastFT reports Monitise is not selling its voucher business, after all....
...Andrew Liveris, Dow’s chief executive, said the price was “unprecedented” for a similar business, and well above the $2.5bn-$3bn that he had thought the sale might raise....
...And the components of the cost of capital are a risk-free rate, a beta, and an equity risk premium to calculate a cost of equity as well as a cost of debt....
...When In-N-Out, the Californian burger chain, appeared in north London for an afternoon in 2012, customers queued for hours....
...Its management team made the investment, so they might as well get the spoils, right? Rather, McDonald’s very kindly directly distributed the bulk of their Chipotle shares to its shareholders....
...From Dr Morton N Lane....
...His 2008 book, The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century, received P.E.N. America’s John Kenneth Galbraith prize....
...It has well- thought- out patterns of entry and egress that encourage people to mingle, meet, and communicate....
...Analysts at N+1 Singer estimate Darty has burnt through €300m in its losing battle to build critical mass in a collapsing Spanish market....
...Mr Higginson will be well placed to advise it on this, as he was responsible for Tesco’s online operations from 2006 to 2012....
...NYSE was advised by Perella Weinberg, BNP Paribas, Blackstone, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs and Moelis, and received legal counsel from Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz and Stibbe N.V....
...Previously Chairman Levitt served on the boards of TIAA-CREF, Neuberger Berman, LLC, and Risk Metrics Group....
...N.V. Tyagarajan, Genpact’s chief executive, said: “We are excited about this transaction, which is hugely positive for all of our shareholders....
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