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...On the face of it, the most affected of the UK’s listed national inn groups are Marston’s, JD Wetherspoon and M&B. It looks like last orders....
...Gas Pipeline contracts were awarded by Asia Gas Pipeline LLP, a 50-50 joint venture between a Chinese state company and the Kazakh state company KazTransGas, adhering to a procurement policy set by AGP j)...
...have greater risk of falling off the edge quicker, but I don’t believe it will be the Armageddon that everyone thinks,” said Perry Mandarino, head of restructuring and co-head of investment banking at B...
...This article has been amended to correct Joel B Pollak’s name. Follow David J Lynch on Twitter: @davidjlynch...
...Case in point was its decision on December 5, to “invest certain intellectual property in the Company’s wholly owned unrestricted subsidiary, J. Crew Domestic Brand, LLC”....
...UKAR has been keen to offload the loans – rather than wait for them to be repaid – as a way to speed up the repayment of its £43.5bn government loan which was provided to rescue Northern Rock and B&B....
...Salgaocar Group) Harsh Pati Singhania (J.K. Organisation) Krishen Sud (Sivik Global Healthcare, Inc.)...
...NRAM and B&B generated underlying profit growth of 90 per cent and 80 per cent respectively in the first half as loan impairments fell....
...“We see S&N as a highly attractive take-out target and the news will put even more pressure on J&J to look for acquisitions.”...
...“Groupon is a symptom of what’s been going on in Chicago in the last few years,” says J.B. Pritzker, founder of New World Ventures, a venture capital business that focuses on high technology....
...We’ve highlighted those domiciled in the US): J.P....
...Frank Mitsch, BB&T Capital Markets/Wells Fargo Securities Frank J. Mitsch follows the chemicals sector for Wells Fargo Securities....
...Berkshire’s Class B shares rose $5.40, or 7.9 per cent, to $73.40 following the announcement after hours. Its Class A shares rose 8.1 per cent to $110,000 after hours....
...District Court for the Southern District of New York, the SEC charged Cohmad Securities Corporation as well as its chairman Maurice J. Cohn, chief operating officer Marcia B....
...TPG went into the transaction aware that B&B faced a potential rating downgrade, which could easily have happened only after the deal went through....
...TPG walked away from a planned £179m injection into Bradford & Bingley, the ailing mortgage lender, after the Financial Services Authority hastily organised an alternative investment from existing B&B investors...
...Too many cases such as B&B’s and the pressure to switch to speedy US-style share placings with single strategic investors may become irresistible....
...Diane von Furstenberg alone had Uma Thurman,J Lo, and Eva Longoria in her front row....
...“In the event LEH is unable to line up an acceptable strategic solution and is downgraded to the triple-B category, there would likely be severe ramifications to the firm,” said Brian Zinser, an analyst...
...As at Punch-M&B, this is a six-month bet....
...M&B owns pubs but clearly needs to reinforce its financial expertise; Société Générale has financial expertise and needs somewhere to drown its sorrows. Allez-y....
...Goldman said it expected M&B to announce “something positive” with the figures, “be it a partial sale and leaseback or additional leverage to fund further share buy-backs”....
...Thomas B....
...It prompted another round of selling in large-chain retail stocks, with Wm Morrison down 2.3 per cent to 178p, J Sainsbury 2.8 per cent weaker at 275p and Marks and Spencer 0.6 per cent softer at 345¼p....
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