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...GILD’s c$15bn cost base vs $11bn core op.income, of which c$5bn lies in R&D/SG&A), but also require very significant job cuts at a time of global economic hardship....
...If Debt/GDP is about 1 now (UK-US levels) you can run a primary deficit of (g-r) — where g is growth rate and r is real cost of borrowing — and keep Debt/GDP constant....
...It is time for tighter controls, says Alba Arboleda, a California-born technology consultant who moved to British Columbia in the mid-1990s....
...All this threatens, in the words of one consultant, to wreak “economic carnage”. For its part, China has long fretted over its reliance on semiconductor imports....
...Others end, to borrow a song from Ms Whitman’s favourite musical genre, in “D-I-V-O-R-C-E”. The Lex team is interested in hearing more from readers. Has Meg Whitman finished her work at HPE?...
...The ground floor of the office tower housing Rio de Janeiro’s state finance department is boarded up, as if girding for a storm....
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College My guess is he will be too timorous to do the right thing....
...Meanwhile, the company’s R&D as a percentage of sales, which has been falling since 2001, is creeping ever lower....
...Patrick and Tamar haven’t seen a great deal of each other in the past 25 years; one hopes that the playlist that accompanies their future trek is more Africa than D.I.V.O.R.C.E....
...The answer, he argues, is to break up inefficient R&D operations and outsource innovation to nimbler biotech companies — a prescription big pharma is already embracing....
...Headed by former McKinsey consultant Maximilian Bittner, Lazada.com operates from a regional headquarters in Singapore with a workforce of about 3,000....
...Last week’s $885m deal between Credit Suisse and the Federal Housing Finance Agency took the settlements to $99.5bn, of which $15.5bn came from foreign banks, according to an FT study of 200 fines and restitutions...
...The stock market is still well up on the year, housing starts are rising, and there’s talk of a manufacturing renaissance in America and Europe....
...Dattaraj V. Salgaocar (V. M. Salgaocar Group) Harsh Pati Singhania (J.K. Organisation) Krishen Sud (Sivik Global Healthcare, Inc.)...
...After all, pundits, consultants, even our collective common sense tell us it must be so. Well, no, actually....
...R. R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit. Tim, twelve, was already competitive....
...“We cannot start production due to a danger to life and safety,” R C Bhargava, Maruti chairman, said over the weekend in his first public comments since the violence....
...Before joining Gibbs & Bruns, Ms Patrick was a law clerk to Judge John R. Brown, US Court of Appeals....
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...Finally, Mr O’Connor could not resist heading his note on the departure of Paul Stobart, Sage’s northern European chief executive, as D.I.V.O.R.C.E....
...An announcement from the SEC on Wednesday, emphasis (and a bit of chuckling) ours: Washington, D.C., Dec. 8, 2010 — The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged a Baltimore-based business consultant...
...As Economics of Contempt noted, for comparison, Merrill Lynch was quoting a deal called Independence V at 90, while Goldman had it down at 67.5. In any case, we know where Hank stands: Mr....
...A judge in Regina v....
...Emphasis ours: There have been a number of recent reports about an exodus of employees from A.I.G., and the role of C.V. Starr & Co., Inc....
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