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...Energy Future Holdings Corp., previously called TXU Corp., is lining up loans to keep two subsidiaries operating during bankruptcy proceedings after months of talks have failed to produce an agreement with...
...No words can adequately express our sadness at Steve’s death or our gratitude for the opportunity to work with him....
...V.G. Siddhartha is a reluctant interviewee. Initially rebuffing a request from the Financial Times, he politely e-mailed: “I don’t think I have got any great story at this time.”...
...Compared with Visa and MasterCard, American Express has been more exposed to the broader financial crisis, says MBO, and less to some of the factors that have boosted its two rivals....
...Bank of America’s June charge-offs were close to 14 per cent and delinquencies – loans that have not been paid – were 1.9 per cent, exceeding the totals for Citigroup, JPMorgan, American Express, Capital...
...He pronounces it – the “g” is silent – with naughty relish....
...Eastern Europe vice-president Connie Tang, DHL Express, Hong Kong and Taiwan MDSince January 2009, previously DHL Express Taiwan GM from 2005 Technology and media Safra Catz, Oracle PresidentSince 2008...
...Analysts said Visa and rival MasterCard are insulated from rising defaults and late payments because, unlike American Express and Discover Financial Services, neither of them actually extends credit to cardholders...
...Formerly chief economist and strategist at American Express Bank, he has also worked for the UK Treasury and the Economist Intelligence Unit....
...To many experts, the confident statements coming from American boardrooms ring increasingly hollow....
...By the end of the week, however, the sun had returned to the Riviera and qualified optimism was the more characteristic tone of major advertisers such as Procter & Gamble, Unilever, Nike and American Express...
...Some users - known as “fakesters” - registered under pseudonyms such as Ali G, LSD or Homer Simpson. This behaviour was playful and experimental....
...I would not have been able to predict the Gillette P&G merger. I think, you know, each of the big Internet companies now are quite focused on a strategy that’s quite differentiated from one another....
...Amanat, CEO, T-Corp., Founder and Former CEO, Marketscape Karen Anderegg, Former CEO, Clinique Marc Andreessen, Co-Founder and Chairman, Opsware Inc....
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