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...BP could appoint its first female chief, with Carol Howle — head of the company’s powerful trading and shipping arm — seen as a potential frontrunner, alongside Anja-Isabel Dotzenrath, who runs BP’s gas...
...Shipping and trading head Carol Howle and gas and clean energy boss Anja-Isabel Dotzenrath — either of who would be BP’s first female chief — are also among the top contenders to carry out Looney’s clean...
...Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has hired Carol Van der Vorst as a partner on its leveraged finance team in London. She joins from Ropes & Gray....
...But Caroline Gulliver, analyst at Jefferies, said she estimated 5 to 10 per cent growth in the company’s first fiscal quarter....
...Kennedy, Dublin Crossword 16,230: Harjit Grewal, London; Lyn Sheeran, Switzerland; Michael Johnson, London Polymath 1,032: DM Macarthur, Bristol, England Crossword 16,224: Sophie Huczynska, Scotland; Carol...
...Analysts at house broker Jefferies said consensus profit forecasts would rise by around 3-4 per cent following the statement....
...Jefferies, Aurobindo’s adviser on the deal, said the acquisition “represents the largest outbound M&A transaction by an Indian pharma company and would make it the second-largest dermatology-focused company...
...Zeus and Jefferies were joint bookrunners on the placing....
...Zeus and Jefferies were joint bookrunners on the stock placing....
...Jefferies analysts said, however, that the soaring share price was predicated on “faultless execution” and were concerned this would be difficult to sustain....
...Mr Patterson said £6bn would be invested in the rollout, Jefferies analysts reckon BT’s capex will actually fall in 2017-18....
...“There is a question as to why it is that the people who are the most highly paid at a company are the ones who receive an array of free perks,” says Carol Bowie of Institutional Shareholder Services, which...
...Carol Fairweather, finance director, said sales from stores open at least a year fell 4 per cent in the second quarter, compared with a 6 per cent increase in the first....
...Elsewhere, a ratings upgrade from Jefferies helped shares in handbag maker Coach climb 1.9 per cent to $32.63....
...The prisoner’s solicitors, Lound Mulrenan Jefferies, said: “Reading is a right and not a privilege, to be encouraged and not restricted.”...
...What would this early Christmas carols and elections mean for investors?...
...A combination with Yahoo could be the only option for MSN rather than see the value in the business continue to dwindle, adds Yousseff Squali, an analyst at Jefferies....
...“[A] disappointing top line but better cost containment sum up the quarter,” said Youssef Squali, managing director at Jefferies & Company....
...Carol Bartz, Yahoo’s CEO, said on Wednesday that that plan did not meet an important Yahoo criterion: that it should have “skin in the game” over the long term....
...And as Youssef Squali at Jefferies points out, based on the last few quarters Microsoft is already losing around $2bn a year in online services....
...“From a client point of view, you don’t want to pay only for effort, you want to pay for results,” says Carol Kruse, vice-president for interactive marketing at the soft drinks group....
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