Hints and tips:
...ASR co-founder Ian Harnett views this year’s stock market performances as an end-of-cycle moment showing investors have been prepared to drop caution in favour of chasing more of the same — that is, the...
...Net profits fell by almost 10 per cent to €1.5bn, partly because of an impairment charge taken when Generali sold its Dutch business to ASR for €143m in September....
...Voice — in both its ASR and TTS flavours — is a growing technology and is expected to become more prominent as a labour-saving device for businesses....
...The company has shifted its business from bulk sugar production to speciality ingredients such as sweeteners and starches in recent years, selling its European sugar operations to the ASR Group for £211m...
...The group of financial institutions ICE has agreed to sell to include Banco Espirito Santo, BNP Paribas, ABN Amro, ASR Nederland, Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations, Bpifrance Participations, Euroclear,...
...The company took unspecified litigation charges, against a backdrop of continuing legal actions including compensation demands from users of its DePuy ASR artificial hip....
...The accounting rules governing ASRs are in flux....
...The UK’s Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency, for example, was the first to identify problems with DePuy’s ASR artificial metal hips, triggering recalls in 2009 and 2010....
...“Although I would like to think these payments had no influence on my doctor’s decision to use the ASR, I will always have doubts....
...J&J was hit by $271m of charges related to its DePuy ASR, a hip replacement which had to be recalled....
...J&J booked $271m of charges related to its DePuy ASR, a hip replacement which had to be recalled....
...Last year J&J took after-tax charges of $922m due to lawsuits related to its DePuy ASR replacement hip, which was recalled, and other product liabilities and litigation....
...This was mainly due to a $922m charge related to the ASR hip recall from its DePuy subsidiary....
...The company took after-tax charges of $922m during the year to cover the impact of litigation around its DePuy ASR replacement hip, which was recalled, and other product liabilities and litigation....
...ASR sales up 250% YoY)....
...Apple could consider ongoing repurchases in the open market, or an accelerated share repurchase (ASR), which has been used recently by other large cap tech companies, including HP and IBM (see Exhibit...
...But they fit the criteria suggested by ASR for the job – high cash flow, stable earnings and a strong balance sheet. Similar yardsticks are employed by Mr Buffett....
...The most likely outcome of that, Smithers and ASR agree, is 1970s-style stagflation. A worse environment for equities could scarcely be devised. Granted, that is some way off....
...In 1977, nine ASR executives acquired the business from parent Phillip Morris, in a management buy-out. JW Childs acquired ASR in 1999....
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