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...HOLD: Kingfisher (KGF) The heavily-shorted company looks exposed to the changing dynamics of the sector, writes Christopher Akers....
...The BioNTech/Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine no longer needs to be kept at ultra-low temperatures colder than the Antarctic winter, according to new results that will allow distribution to be dramatically expanded...
...After it closed, he set up Donda’s House, named after his mother, but which is now known as Art of Culture Inc, this time to support creativity in young people in Chicago....
...Cloudbreak it will spend spring 2019 in Greenland (where a week’s trip for a group of 12 heli-skiers would cost €800,000) but Elemental Adventure is also planning to use it for a ski-touring trip to the Antarctic...
...“Could you get into the Antarctic? Could you have submarines? I wonder whether there may be different ways of selling the cruise.”...
...He lambasted Mr Trump and Mr Carson over their “fantasy” tax plans that he said would add trillions of dollars to the US national debt....
...Another title is Edge of Nowhere, a fantasy adventure game set in the Antarctic. “As someone who was sceptical of VR, I’ve become a believer,” said Tim Price of Insomniac Games, its developer....
...Clearly, management overpaid for acquisitions such as GlobalSantaFe (2007) and Aker Drilling (2011)....
...“We almost have more legitimacy because people invested in us so early.” The appeal is clear, insists Sunderland....
...Which takes us to lunch....
...The book forces us to confront similar issues of our time, ranging from the dossier on the Iraqi WMD to the NSA files. ——————————————- BUSINESS Creativity, Inc: Overcoming the Unseen Forces that Stand...
...Furthermore sales of BreathScan, Akers’ disposable breath alcohol detectors, have slowed over the year due to US government budget constraints....
...“How much more evidence does Ofcom need when a senior Metropolitian police officer, Sue Akers, gave evidence to the Leveson inquiry of a “culture at the Sun of illegal payments” Last summer, Rupert Murdoch...
...AK Steel Holding rose 13.4 per cent to $8.46 and US Steel rose 15.3 per cent to $27.30....
...Investors were further disappointed last November when Transocean issued $1.2bn in new shares to pay for the $1.4bn acquisition of Aker Drilling, announced in August....
...Instead, Britons are condemned to suffer the comparison between Scott’s failed expedition and that of the efficient, well-prepared and Antarctic-ice-cool Norwegian Roald Amundsen, replayed again and again...
...Tim Leslie and some two dozen individuals left Moore in 2008 to set up James Caird Asset Management – named after the lifeboat used by Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton....
...The company has signed letters of intent to buy five new ships from Aker Philadelphia shipyard and five from Bay Shipbuilding on Lake Michigan....
...The father of two co-founded chip group Element 14 in 1999, which he sold to Broadcom of the US for $594m. people@ft.com...
...In 1911, Schibsted’s flagship Aftenposten newspaper sponsored Roald Amundsen’s Antarctic exploration and donated the ensign he planted on the South Pole....
...SABMiller was 0.7 per cent lower at £21.66 after US industry data showed beer imports down 2.5 per cent in November....
...James Caird – named after the lifeboat that rescued explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton from his near-disastrous Antarctic expedition in 1916 – will launch its new fund in November, according to a person familiar...
...Wellstream , which has in the past been linked with Italy’s Saipem and Norway’s Aker Solutions, is the most obvious bid target, RBS said....
...Aim-listed Akers sells breathalyser kits to the US military to help reduce drink-driving incidents of its service personnel after a night on the town....
...But some of its US shareholders were said to be unhappy not to have been consulted about the bid rejection....
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