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...US corporate defaults almost tripled last year to 105, according to a Moody’s report this week, with 60 per cent of those defaults constituting distressed exchanges — up sharply from 35 per cent in 2022....
...Like the original, it starts off slow and moody — the last of the day’s sun flitting through an overgrown woodland path — before erupting into unfettered violence....
...Tom Hamilton, an Ashley collaborator for more than 30 years, recreated the electronic score, and Tom Moody did the simple set and subtle lighting. ★★★★☆ roulette.org...
...In the 1980s, architects were wrestling in the mud over postmodernism and “High Tech” but the people were watching country-house dramas, shopping at Laura Ashley and Ralph Lauren....
...“Today, Florida is fighting back,” DeSantis said at a press conference in Miami alongside Ashley Moody, Florida’s attorney-general....
...Job moves Frasers is in talks about handing its chief executive role to Michael Murray, the future son-in-law of founder Mike Ashley....
...“There are many more companies that are fragile,” said Christina Padgett, head of leveraged finance research at Moody’s. “They have layered on a lot of debt.”...
...“It is going to be a Christmas of bargains for shoppers,” said David Beadle, senior credit officer at Moody’s....
...Ashley Hamilton Claxton, head of responsible investment at Royal London Asset Management, says the SFDR will result in much more transparency but warned of “interesting challenges”....
...Saks’ parent HBC is already carrying lots of debt, and rating agencies Moody’s and S&P Global both rate the company deeply within junk territory....
...Moody’s began to build a standalone ESG team, consisting of a dozen analysts, about 18 months ago....
...Moody bass and echoing drums gave the music the rain-slick gloss of a nocturnal street....
...Moody’s Investors Service is among the members of a more sceptical camp that sees this as merely the latest in a series of self-constructed bear traps....
...However, with the bonds trading at a discount of around 40p in the pound, analysts said Moody’s downgrade would only make it harder for Johnston Press’s chief executive Ashley Highfield to restore confidence...
...When Johnston Press splashed out £24m to buy the I newspaper in April, the UK daily was described by chief executive Ashley Highfield as a “transformational acquisition”....
...Ashley Highfield, chief executive of Johnston Press, has repeatedly called the deal a “transformational acquisition”....
...Many associations saw their ratings lowered by Moody’s last month in a byproduct of the agency’s decision to downgrade the UK’s credit rating....
...“Someone just came in and bought five apartments,” says Ashley He, one of the battalion of salespeople working the floor. The fresh enthusiasm for Chinese property, is not confined to home buyers....
...With 55 per cent of Adobe revenues coming from creative professionals, Mr Ashley said this could be a problem....
...“The mystics are gathering,” intoned the storyteller Ashley Ramsden from the balcony, followed by the crash of a gong and a fanfare of brass....
...The reverse is that when corporate bond yields start to fall, as they seem to be doing now (see the below chart courtesy of Ashley Thomas), those pensions liabilities go right back up....
...If Cristofer makes a solid, moody centre for the drama, it is Neal Huff’s shot-from-guns Huxley who enlivens the proceedings....
...I didn’t have to pretend to like his big striped sofa, pale rugs, moody black-and-white framed photos or his enormous floor lamps; I really did....
...On FT Alphaville this morning, - We’re starting to see what the banks on Mike Ashley’s IPO team were onto. The man is a deal junkie....
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