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...Trading volume for TMTG, which last month merged with Digital World Acquisition Corp, was double its 20-day average early on Friday, according to Bloomberg data....
...Carl Vine, a portfolio manager at M&G and a Toyota shareholder, thinks the company has “gotten an unfair rap in recent years”....
...Most large consumer packaged goods groups, including P&G, are still operating on tighter margins than they were before the pandemic....
...It’s kind of the driving engine of where stuff is happening. Robert ArmstrongYes....
...According to MMO Population tracker, it has c 18.7m subscribers and 353k daily active players which ranks number 14 of 140 tracked MMOs....
...Its plans include assembling batteries for its new plug-in hybrid C-HR car in Europe and running a trial in the UK to retrofit its Hilux pick-up trucks to run on hydrogen....
...Tech tools — Epic’s Unreal car engine Nvidia’s skills in making powerful graphics cards for gamers have been extended to providing sophisticated chips for cars, and now Epic, whose Unreal Engine software...
...Today, it employs more than 1,000 staff and serves a roster of multinational companies in the Philippines that includes Unilever, P&G, L’Oréal and Nestlé....
...Hours earlier, a plane chartered to carry the White House press corps across the Atlantic had been grounded by a swarm of the red-eyed bugs clogging the aircraft’s engines....
...In the US, ExxonMobil — the world’s biggest non-state oil company — was hit by a remarkable shareholder intervention this year, when the little-known hedge fund Engine Number 1 succeeded in gaining three...
...Google’s hardball tactic of threatening to shut its search engine has raised the stakes for Canberra, which critics allege drew up the pioneering regulation to curry favour with News Corp — a staunch supporter...
...And so if you were, for example, Larry and Sergei at Google, you know, building your search engine, you were building on this “platform that, that was the web.”...
...The site ships engines to car plants across the world, including Turkey, where Toyota is next week restarting production at its Sakarya site, which produces the C-HR and Corolla Sedan models....
...Companies such as Made in Space have been refining Zero-G 3D printing on the International Space Station since 2014....
...Contract manufacturer Magna Steyr on Tuesday said it had restarted production of the Mercedes G-Class sport utility vehicle at its site in Austria....
...Acquired assets are expected to be c. $20m....
...A reminder that in normal circumstances Rolls really doesn’t want to lose its investment-grade credit rating for customer reassurance reasons, because no-one wants to buy an engine from a company that might...
...But come the market downturn, that credit — from triple A to triple C — risks exploding in their faces....
...We estimate Whitbread's annual rates bill is c.£120m, equivalent to c.35% of FY20e PBT (Feb YE). Mitchells & Butlers' rates bill is also around c.£100m, c.50% of FY19 PBT (Sep YE)....
...Helpful, then, that Halfords is the market leader in bicycle sales (c.25% market share) and PACs (c.15%)....
...As a result, Ashtead now sees PBT for the financial year ending Apr-20 to be c£1,050m (-10% vs. previous consensus c£1,170m)....
...(WSJ) News round-up Iliad chairman fined €600,000 for insider dealing (FT) Allianz in exclusive talks to buy L&G’s general insurance unit (FT) Sprint, T-Mobile push back deadline to complete merger (...
...“The president has great power on this issue — Because of the G.M. event, it is being studied now.”...
...But by 2010 Kassoy was noticing something odd: though relatively few large companies actually turned themselves into B Corps, many started to embrace B Corp metrics to assess their performance around non-monetary...
...The recall which also includes C-HR compact crossover vehicle affects 554,000 vehicles in Japan, 219,000 in Europe and 217,000 in North America....
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