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...DBRS Morningstar lifted its assessment of Athens’ creditworthiness on Friday to triple B, kicking off what is widely anticipated to be a series of upgrades from “junk” territory....
...Richard Bullick, a former special adviser to past DUP first ministers Peter Robinson and Arlene Foster, urged voters to be strategic....
...If that should prove impossible, plan B would enter into effect....
...SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon and the DUP’s Arlene Foster have indicated in recent days they would consider the option....
...If the EU can give just a little, we could end up with ‘Plan B’ working.”...
...In Westminster, everyone is hunting for a Brexit Plan B. Newspapers are full of reports of various minister meetings behind closed doors over pizza in a desperate attempt to find an answer....
...Lawrence Baxter William B McGuire Professor of the Practice of Law Co-Director, Global Financial Markets Center Duke Law School, Durham, NC, US...
...And I think there is still a hope in Dublin that those kind of concerns would begin to exert themselves in Arlene Foster's dialogue with Theresa May as these talks evolve....
...If the bare minimum for parody is: a) decide on a target and b) hit it, this sloppy send-up of Graham — or was it hip hop? — did not qualify....
...Fitch lowered its rating two notches to triple B minus and maintained a negative outlook on the US municipality, indicating it may cut the city’s ratings further in the coming months, US capital markets...
...No further comment is needed on the aridities by Javier de Frutos, Arlene Phillips, Annie-B Parsons and Danièle Desnoyers, which occupied the time and considerable artistry of Whelan and Watson, wasting...
...The brainy African ex-politician not only has a Plan B, but Plans C, D, E and F....
...He told the Financial Times that he was introduced to Mr McGuire “by a mutual acquaintance” in early 2009, and had a meeting with Mr Lewis and Mr McGuire in France that summer....
...The view has been fuelled by comments made by Richard McGuire, Mr Lewis’ representative at M&B AGM earlier this year....
...“There were serious trust issues,” Mr McGuire says. M&B says property valuation is conducted in line with industry practice, while remuneration issues raised by Piedmont have been resolved....
...Piedmont has previously said it does not have an issue with M&B over strategy, but Mr McGuire said it was concerned about “an increasing gap between revenues and profit before tax”....
...The statement comes a day after M&B decided to oust Piedmont’s two board representatives – Richard McGuire and Douglas McMahon – along with two other non-executive directors....
...The simmering boardroom tensions burst into the open last week when M&B ousted four non-executive directors – including Piedmont’s two representatives Richard McGuire and Douglas McMahon – from its board...
...Based on price there was limited downside,” Mr McGuire said....
...Its board representatives were Mr McGuire and Mr McMahon....
...Mr Fowle said Mr Laffin had chaired M&B “in the most difficult circumstances”....
...The letter detailed M&B’s concern at the alleged behaviour of the four former directors, which led it to make a complaint to the Takeover Panel....
...Somebody writes, “She should be repeatedly head-butted,” and “She should be flogged to within an inch of her life, the evil b–!”...
...It also said it had resolved that Richard McGuire and Douglas McMahon, the two representatives of Piedmont, Mr Lewis’s investment vehicle that owns 23 per cent of M&B, should step down as directors....
...M&B alleged to the Takeover Panel that some large shareholders were working behind the scenes to gain control of the business. M&B had to resolve the “boardroom impasse”, Mr McGuire said....
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