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...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on April 12 2020. ©2020 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...The latter of the three Ls has not got nearly as much attention....
...Lucie Greene is editor of LS:N Global, the trends forecasting division of the Future Laboratory...
...Clever chemists who can spit out all 24 digits of Avogadro’s number should have no problem with the far simpler calculation that higher margins and faster growth are superior to the opposite....
...The sale to LS Power, a New York-based power generation and transmission group, will allow Dynegy to service its near-term debt....
...In selling the nine plants, LS Power will hold just 15 per cent, making Dynegy’s ownership more clear....
...“With property sales modestly picking up and with ‘improve not move’ and DIY capturing those who cannot afford to relocate, we think the operationally leveraged P&Ls of Kingfisher and Home Retail Group...
...Ls, Ws, hooks and diminishing sine waves are out of the economic spotlight, then. For now at least. Related links: Stop the rot!...
...As broadly noted, and highlighted by the Fed itself, the statements revealed new information about the balance sheets and P&Ls of the consolidated special vehicles created to take on the distressed assets...
...At that time, LS will have the option to sell its stake or try to buy more, if not all, of Dynegy....
...LS Power, which already owns 40 per cent of Dynegy, has the right to bid for the rest of the company after April 2. Dynegy points out that in November it had $855m in cash on the balance sheet....
...Historically, S&Ls had operated under conservative financial models....
...Middle-distillate demand (which goes into making diesel) had been the one saving grace for the products market, with refineries depending on the crack to make good on their p&ls....
...LS Real Estate will buy sites in the bigger cities and growth locations in second-tier cities....
...Over the next 6 years over 1,600 S+Ls went bust....
...Right, they really like - so LS doesn’t want to do a deal with Nasdaq, but they’d be happy to do a deal with Borsa Italiana because now we have a European partner, and a European solution....
...globalisation has created new wealth by providing much lower costs to manufacturing, by providing much lower cost labour; and a lot of the savings created by this are savings that show up in corporate P&Ls...
...Japan inc. would do well to pay a bit more attention to the country’s outstanding tradition in tailoring and play up its obsession with detail....
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