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...The firm, co-founded by billionaires Orlando Bravo and Carl Thoma, has morphed from a niche player with just $3.6bn in assets into a powerhouse with over $91bn under management in the span of a decade....
...Discussions to combine TV production company Media Rights Capital, the Hollywood Reporter-Billboard Media Group and Dick Clark Productions, are at an advanced stage and could be announced imminently, according...
...Guggenheim Partners, the second largest shareholder in the oil exploration and production company, has said it will vote against the company’s proposed acquisition of Bonanza Creek, joining Carl Icahn in...
...Whitbread is also under pressure from Mr Ferguson’s lobbying to spin off its Costa Coffee chain....
...At the same time, it lifted production by 2 per cent to 3.84m barrels per day....
...Repsol goes from having almost all of its production in emerging economies — with all the political risk that entails — to having more than a third of its production in developed ones....
...It is a phenomenon known as “continuous liquid interface production”, and has been developed by Carbon3D — a Silicon Valley start-up backed by technology investment group Sequoia Capital....
...For someone who has been focused primarily on the implications of accelerating information technology, this book was a stark reminder that Moore’s Law does not apply to food production technology and that...
...Whitbread, which runs Premier Inn hotels and the Costa Coffee chain, eased 0.4 per cent to £33.59 after a 12.6 per cent rise in first-half earnings....
...A Dreamliner took off at 12:11pm Pacific time from the airfield at Boeing’s main production plant in Everett, Washington, for the ‘functional test flight’ and returned two hours later.”...
...Carl Icahn, the activist investor, built a 10 per cent stake and criticised the board. The value of his stake has since increased by more than $600m....
...Phil Falcone’s Harbinger Capital Partners LLC, according to four people familiar with the talks, Bloomberg reports....
...Walter boasts reserves of high-quality metallurgical coal, also known as coking coal, which is used in steel production....
...Mr Birnbaum and Mr Barber are also likely to face pressure from Carl Icahn, the activist investor who holds as much as 20 per cent of MGM shares....
...LLC, a Houston investment bank. —————— And here, via Morgan Stanley, is a handy ‘week ahead’ for BP: 1) Monday – BP board meeting scheduled, focus on the dividend....
...So far, A (H1N1) has been confirmed as killing 53 people in Mexico, Canada, the US and Costa Rica, and infecting nearly 4,700 in 30 countries....
...Carl Icahn has increased the pressure on the board of Lions Gate Entertainment by announcing plans for a tender offer for as much as $325m of the group’s debt....
...A glut in global production capacity, which has squeezed profits across the industry, could prove a further deterrent....
...CSFB reduced its 2005 earnings per share forecast by 9 per cent, partly as a result of a slower build up of production in BP’s deep water Gulf of Mexico projects....
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