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...Matters deteriorated when Credit Suisse’s anchor shareholder, Saudi National Bank, ruled out further investment....
...The deal is pro-competition and pro-innovation in a market filled with mavericks, the company argued, adding that because the companies have no intention of increasing prices, regulators should sign off...
...Alibaba was once the darling of Wall Street, with grand ambitions to conquer the US market....
...By limiting growth in the budget to the rate of inflation, it is viewed as a key fiscal anchor....
...Around the back of the giant tin warehouse, next to a distributor of industrial valves, is our venue....
...But the stock market debut of tech darling Paytm, India’s largest-ever IPO, turned out to be a flop....
...Sales at the company’s other division, refractory products, were flat....
...Yet people had stopped coming, and John Lewis closed its newly refurbished, four-floor anchor store this year....
...She looks for companies that can do things better, faster, cheaper and break out into long runways of growth....
...The acquisitions of start-ups Gimlet Media, Anchor and Parcast are aimed at lessening the company’s dependence on music streaming....
...Independent companies exploring shale in aggregate act like a precision valve in the oil supply machine, increasing output as prices rise and decreasing it when they fall....
...“When I was at Fenwick Bond Street, re-launching the beauty hall, Charlotte Tilbury was the obvious brand to anchor the space,” recalls Walker-Smith. Why?...
...The comments follow a recent public spat between Donald Trump, the former darling of Murdoch-run Fox News who is also seeking the Republican ticket, and the network’s anchor Megyn Kelly....
...Another shopper was so incensed by ill-fitting bras she wrote to the company....
...It was the darling of Wall Street and Washington....
...The deficit reduction plan has been a key anchor point for us all but not the driving force behind the recovery....
...was looking for a deal to kick its long-awaited privatisation programme into full gear, it could hardly have hoped for anything better than the public offering of Sberbank, the state lender and investor darling...
...Too few people understand that a government’s budget is not like a family’s or a company’s....
...Alistair Darling, the chancellor, is nonetheless proposing to impose a committee of financial stability experts on the Bank. Is this the thin end of a long wedge?...
...This year, the model ( about £13,000, $19,066 ) appears in yet another guise with a new dial, racked-up performance (water resistant to 1000 metres, helium escape valve, sapphire crystal back) all wrapped...
...To the extent permitted by host authorities, China is increasing its investment in technology companies overseas....
...The right thing for the Bank to do is to anchor inflationary expectations, even at the risk of a sharp economic slowdown. That is also what it is mandated to do....
...Governments use business tax as a safety valve for taking pressure off income tax....
...He said: “The Fed’s move is like a valve – it has released short-term pressure but in the long term it is merely masking the credit problems....
...Any shift of focus would have to be gradual in the absence of gold or any other anchor....
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