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...“CD&R is a high-performing business with really good people and the way they do business is important to me,” Lewis told the FT....
...Please read on for my story on what the business and finance world can learn from the Nairobi summit....
...A YouTube user called PluggingAI offers songs imitating the voices of the deceased rappers Tupac and Notorious B.I.G....
...The group of senior class A and subordinate class B bonds are securitised at the operating companies....
...They reckon that debt maturities of firms rated single-B or lower will be around $310bn in 2025, rising to $400bn in 2026....
...His Berkshire Hathaway B class shares, at $420, offer a relatively cheaper entry....
...might play in here, except to note that (a) the journal that published the Green and Hand paper is published by the Fraser Institute, a Canadian think-tank of a libertarian/conservative flavour, and that (b)...
...Enemies turned potential business partners as the PIF struck a preliminary agreement to invest in the tour....
...Yamaji said some of Japan’s top business leaders use their time with him at the golf course to mutter a pre-emptive apology if their P/B ratio is below one....
...Shortlisted for the FT and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award....
...Companies with double B or B plus debt ratings have received solid demand, while lower-rated single B and triple C rated companies have been forced to go to private credit lenders for financing....
...We will forever cherish, however, the former British prime minister’s statement that while “there were faults with the business . . . it doesn’t mean that the whole thing was necessarily a giant fraud”.)...
...(b) Returns implied by the stock market equal only est. half of Citi’s target. For those looking for a “margin of safety” for an investment—we believe Citi looks like a stock to own....
...You can get a deal done for a double-B senior loan at a 300-350bp spread all day long. That market’s wide open....
...The largest holder of Paramount’s B shares is Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, which in 2022 disclosed a stake of about 75mn shares at $28 per share — almost twice the share price today....
...The rating agency in May cut SoftBank’s long-term credit rating from double B plus, its highest non-investment grade, to double B following record investment losses....
...This raises an interesting question: what is the 2023 equivalent of a yellow pages business?...
...Even the best in the business were crushed in 2022....
...Switching focus Faltering strategy has claimed many of Baidu’s business aims....
...The slide in the housing market hit Berkshire’s building products business, as well as its real estate broker and manufactured homes businesses....
...This other category includes a large chunk of further otherage: As ever, the juice is in the notes: (b) Represents amounts paid in connection with Mr. Smith’s and Mr. Younes’ relocations. Mr....
...You would think it was part of a script from a budget B-movie if it wasn’t so true”....
...With an unshakeable grip, the pair run Skechers very much as a family business....
...The downgrade from double B plus, S&P’s highest non-investment grade, to double B came after SoftBank’s tech-heavy Vision Funds this month posted record annual investment losses of $39bn....
...Wilding was so ebullient that he not only quoted Buffett’s longtime business partner Charlie Munger, but also Winston Churchill....
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