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...Triple-B [the lowest rung of IG] spreads are at about 120bp, whereas double-B high-yield is at 200bp. So you pick up 80bp from going from triple-B to double-B....
...We’re assuming (b) ended up winning there....
...on Floral Committee B (Woody Plants)....
...“Banks are nervous to underwrite single-B credit with M&A timelines which could be six months of holding the risk,” said Lauren Basmadjian, co-head of liquid credit at Carlyle....
...More than half of single-B minus rated US companies would not be generating enough cash to cover their capital expenditure while servicing their debt by year-end, analysts at Moody’s project....
...Stay: the Mazzeis converted the borgo at Fonterutoli into a charming B&B proposition several years ago. The handful of rooms and apartments are elegant-trad, clean-lined and pretty....
...Spoken word, folk, hip hop and R&B are placed alongside traditional opera....
...Inside is a Steinway Model B-221 grand piano, (an instrument that retails at £119,725) customised with the underside of the lid lacquered in the signature peppermint green of Claridge’s livery....
...British bass baritone Christopher Purves sings Saul, the Old Testament king driven mad by his envy of the young David (Danish countertenor Morten Grove Frandsen)....
...Nilanjana Roy FT COLUMNIST The Covenant of Water (Grove Atlantic), Abraham Verghese’s fourth book, is a hefty 736-page summer blockbuster: set in Kerala, one of my favourite parts of India, the prose is...
...February 16 to May 18; further information and tickets here Coconut Grove Arts Festival The 60th anniversary of the chic neighbourhood’s annual celebration of the arts....
...S&P has rated the bonds single-B minus, among the riskiest ratings it assigns....
...Meanwhile, too small to register in the above charts are meatless meat specialists such as Ontario-based Maple Leaf Foods, which in November wrote down the value of its plant protein business by $191mn....
...Quiet dirt roads weave between fields of barley and olive and pomegranate groves. Donkeys, laden with their bales of cut grass, graze quietly in the sun; palms sprout erratically everywhere....
...the tropics within easy reach of European cities, and is ideal for winter walking through cloud forest, mountain gorges, banana groves and coastal trails....
...When banks were racing to lend to companies and private equity firms at the start of the year, a US business with a lowly single B debt rating could expect an interest rate of roughly 4.74 per cent....
..., at its discretion, from the date it became an investor in SVF2 LLC to the end of the company life of SVF2 LLC....
...The plaintiff was Cassie, the R&B singer, who alleged that Combs had raped her, beaten her and blown up a romantic rival’s car. Combs denied the allegations....
...“We’re worried about deteriorating macro conditions, and that’s traditionally not the time when investors deploy a lot of capital into the single-B [corporate debt rating] risk.”...
...“Water is the source of life,” says Yaqoob Al Abri, owner of Misfah Old House B&B. “The mountain is like a giant tank that gives us water even when it has not rained — thanks be to God!”...
...Supermarkets and “variety discounters” such as B&M and Home Bargains have been undercutting it on staples such as deodorant, shaving products and toiletries, while online rivals and department stores are...
...The US WTI oil benchmark closed at $72.34/b. And it isn’t just crude....
...b. Line of Credit: On multiple occasions, Bankman-Fried directed FTX to increase the amount by which Alameda could maintain a negative balance in its account....
...Class B and D stock, which is nearly all owned by Refinitiv and its affiliates, receives 10 votes per share....
...From €1,000 per night B&B, passalacqua.it/en...
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