Hints and tips:
...Their client list includes The Conran Shop, P Joseph, Locke Hotels and Ducie Street Warehouse in Manchester....
...He beat internal and external rivals to replace Ken Lewis at BofA, and has already held on to the top job for longer than many observers had anticipated....
...hotel (Wall Street Journal) S&P’s $44bn IHS deal set to win EU antitrust approval (Reuters)...
...and liquidity targets all remain unchanged from the interim guidance, so people who don’t yet need to worry about their jobs include CEO Simon Smith, CFO Jonathan Davies and UK operations boss Richard Lewis...
...Additional reporting by Leo Lewis in Tokyo...
...Toyota’s success has made the company an emblem of resistance to corporate governance reform, writes the FT’s Leo Lewis....
...Stay U/P SM; valuation still too rich. ......
...The division is margin dilutive to the Group at a c.13% operating margin (Group c.18-19%)....
...Facebook, which was dropped from the S&P 500 ESG index last year, has set up a $100m grant programme to support small businesses hit by the coronavirus....
...After all, Trian won the support of the most influential independent proxy advisers, ISS and Glass Lewis, plus that of key P&G investors including Yacktman Asset Management and Calstrs. What next?...
...From 2014 to 2015, the fund returned an annualised -1.40 per cent, falling below both the MSCI World and S&P 500, Mr Lewis added....
...c) better regulate them heavily, just in case. The macroprudential supernanny has fretted a fund could suffer a run of withdrawals because investors know a credit line is limited....
...& P) c) The world’s best stock market performer in Q1 was Venezuela Alternative liquid asset class Phew, that’s a relief....
...Property prices increased 8 per cent in 2013, according to S&P/Case-Shiller, although growth in the market fell to 1.5 per cent in 2014....
...(c) Company Securities....
...The scrutiny of the US trading industry was prompted by the release of Michael Lewis’ latest book, Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt....
...At 11 a.m., he met with a man named Lewis Ranieri, looking to pick his brain....
...“There is nothing like a change in a VIP’s travel plans to excite the imaginations of market participants,” noted Stephen Lewis at Monument Securities....
...For every Fifth Avenue, there’s a Mumbai slum; for every Sorbonne, there’s a D.C. high school guarded by metal detectors....
...Here are some highlights of the fiery exchanges between the two, via several hours spent half-listening to C-Span 3 and the NY Times excellent live coverage of the testimony....
...Ken Lewis, the chief executive of Bank of America, became the third head of a leading bank to say it had been profitable in 2009....
...Lloyd C. Blankfein, Chief executive and Chairman, Goldman Sachs James Dimon, Chief executive, JPMorgan Chase Robert P....
...The S&P fell 1.2 per cent in the 10 minutes after the figures were issued. Homebuilders shed 0.8 per cent overall in choppy trade....
...UBS made the opposite call on Kazakhmys, which lagged behind peers on a 5.2 per cent decline to 285½p....
...Other retailers were weak after John Lewis reported weekly department store sales down 5.6 per cent....
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