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...Ashley Schapitl, a US Treasury spokesperson, said that foreign investment was “subject to strict safeguards to ensure national security”....
...The head of one fund that has engaged in this trade says traders have in the past been able to lever up to 500 times.In this must-read Big Read by my colleagues Kate Duguid, Costas Mourselas and Ortenca...
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...Costa Coffee, now owned by Coca-Cola, and privately owned Caffè Nero are among those that have looked at parcels of stores, the people said. Both companies declined to comment....
...Santander has hired Pedro Leite da Costa in Brazil as the new head of equity capital markets in the country....
...Whitbread’s £3.9bn sale of Costa “makes obvious financial and strategic sense”, said JPMorgan....
...So it’s probably best to ignore Mike Ashley’s desire for a return to Victorian times, when working conditions at Sports Direct’s Derbyshire warehouse would have been seen as progressive....
...and banker Ken Costa....
...Debenhams said it would also begin a trial with Costa Coffee, with concessions in six stores, and it was in talks with a number of other brands to take space in its stores....
...The youngest is Luke Shaw, the 18-year-old Southampton defender who usurped veteran left back Ashley Cole....
...The swift rejection was seen to point towards G4S chief executive Ashley Almanza resisting pressure from activist shareholders to break up the group....
...If you are going to nudge a vision it’s best to do so in some recognisable way, even if it goes a little off-course, as it did for Francisco Costa at Calvin Klein....
...Sports Direct slid 5 per cent to 409p after founder and majority shareholder Mike Ashley sold a £100m stake at 400p each....
...The best waves, however, are down in the Osa Peninsula on the pacific coast of Costa Rica....
...Mike Ashley (he’s the one on the right) is the biggest shareholder in Blacks Leisure and he’s shown interest in buying the business before....
...Note, for example, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen’s The Row, where their signature is making elegance – a largely white collection of tunics and trousers, matte and sheer – seem effortless, or Diane von Furstenberg...
...The two planks of modern Whitbread – Costa Coffee and Premier Inns – have only been put in place in the past 15 years....
...The real star of Whitbread’s show on Tuesday was Costa Coffee, where sales jumped 21.5 per cent....
...Sir David’s acceptance of a loan from Mike Ashley in 2007 – and, more damningly, the fact he did not disclose it to the full board of JJB Sports when he became a non-executive a few weeks later – looks like...
...Mike Ashley, Sports Direct’s increasingly entertaining founder, appears to be long on shorts (and shirts and, presumably, socks)....
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