Hints and tips:
...“It will be exciting when our generation is in the driving seats of bigger industry businesses,” he says....
...(FT) Recovery, brought to you by the letter V, or maybe W Mapping economic output to familiar shapes makes a good deal of sense....
...Melrose Industries, the private equity barons whose equity isn’t private, is leading the FTSE 100 gainers after interims....
...and bailouts for industries including the US aviation sector....
...Secondly, there is probably a good reason for ‘below the line’ write-downs of intangibles, goodwill and potentially previously acquired assets that have to be marked-to-market....
...How much goodwill has been eroded by charging £4.90 for regular popcorn and starting the film three quarters of an hour after the time on the ticket?...
...And the central bank payments system would survive any crisis, just as we are told cockroaches will survive a nuclear winter. That removes one central driver of bailouts....
...Photovoltaic solar panels, vertically fixed and benchmarked to Arizona, have an efficiency loss of about 50 per cent. Siting the panels at a 210 degree azimuth loses another 10 per cent....
...And it is unclear how much of a boost the commercially successful Batman v Superman which released in the last week of March would provide....
...“We have continued to outperform the industry,” he insisted....
...And to win even the €3bn it needs governments’ goodwill, which will not be forthcoming without a lot of hard diplomacy: GM’s decision has infuriated the Germans....
...In theory we can – that should be the main task of a modern central bank....
...The cachet of hereditary majesty has been known to draw the most profit-hungry captains of industry and the most inward-looking US politicians....
...My other proposals on central excise duties seek to address distortions that the manufacturing industry has been complaining about....
...Q: Your thoughts please on positioning v branding and perhaps the former requiring much more attention and effort?...
...Michael V....
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