Hints and tips:
...If and when the day comes, the SEC will probably approve several ETFs at once, rather than granting one player a potentially unassailable first-mover advantage....
...Same thing with auto lending. The one shoe that hasn’t dropped yet are cap rates and debt yields on commercial real estate....
...break-up of Big Four firm (FT) Banks try to offload $15bn of Citrix buyout debt to ‘gun-shy’ investors (FT + Lex) Deloitte revenues hit record on back of tech consulting boom (FT) Melrose to spin off auto...
...It was a filing made by an entity named FCM BBBY Holdings, LLC which listed its address as a nondescript Wyoming office building....
...So if I had to be Nostradamus here, I would say the safe bet is plus or minus console scale in the next handful of years....
...The fintech company, which offers everything from gold trading to fantasy sports, was an early mover in mobile payments but has been losing market share to foreign competitors....
...All existing investors took part including Andreessen Horowitz, T Rowe Price, the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, Fidelity, Mubadala, Perry Creek Capital, Silver Lake, Temasek, plus auto supplier Magna...
...That includes buying up to $600bn of mortgage bonds of government-sponsored housing enterprises such as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and lending up to $200bn to holders of AAA-rated securities backed by auto...
...Arndt Ellinghorst, auto analyst at Bernstein, expects up to 30m electric vehicles will be produced annually by 2030. “There’s no first-mover advantage any more,” he said....
...Each incremental improvement in such technology has generated windfalls for the first movers....
...Second quarter customer income for Plus is $323.4m, up 38 per cent from the record total it recorded in the first quarter....
...Bernstein, the Aston Martin of brokerages, starts Aston Martin with an “outperform” and 70p target as part of a gigantic autos sector note....
...In our view, this sends a message not just to auto and tech investors, but to the management teams and board of directors of the world’s auto companies....
...Causeway Capital Management LLC, the LA hedge fund, has declared 4.88 per cent of Micro Focus....
...“They are two separate entities, but there is common ground where two-plus-two equals five,” he told the New York Times in 2013....
...MDBs limit their loan portfolio to a set ratio in relation to their equity — the capital paid-in by member governments plus reserves accumulated during operations....
...Senior and mezzanine tranches are typically rated AAA and AA plus, and primarily by domestic rating agencies....
...The other big market-mover was a leak suggesting that the administration has plans to leave Nafta altogether, without attempting to renegotiate it....
...Analysts with S&P downgraded general obligation bonds issued by the 49th US state one notch to double A plus on Tuesday....
...Marking another of Mr Inaba’s obsessions, all of Fanuc’s buildings, plus employee jackets and helmets, are coloured in yellow....
...Meanwhile, US buyout house Hellman & Friedman is preparing a £2bn takeover bid for Auto Trader, the UK’s largest marketplace for used cars, in a deal that would derail what is expected to be one of this...
...Founded in 2003, Dianping has clear first-mover advantage in an increasingly crowded field....
...Amazon Fire TV plus controller (Rating: 4/5); Logitech PowerShell (3/5); SteelSeries Stratus (4/5) The most prominent of the new products is Amazon’s new Fire TV, which launched in the US last week, costing...
...This illustrates the early mover disadvantage, and may discourage early compliance with new regulations....
...Fortress will pay $700m for the servicing business, plus $1.8bn in advances, for a total deal value of $2.5bn....
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