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...Using less packaging on just one brand of toys could save $2.4mn a year, Scott observed....
...Guggenheim’s Scott Minerd compares the current dissonance between buoyant asset prices and deteriorating fundamentals to Neville Chamberlain declaring “peace for our time” shortly before World War II....
...The most prominent of these was brash US short-seller Carson Block, who told the FT that the AMF’s market manipulation probe into his fund Muddy Waters, was “tainted by bias”....
...Carson Pirie Scott in Chicago, designed by Louis Sullivan in 1899, is an exquisitely complex work of American Art Nouveau, its bronze decorative work intricately ornate....
...) are contributed by a Restricted Subsidiary or (iii) constitute Excluded Contributions); Because of this “there seems to be a drafting error,” said Scott Josefsberg of Covenant Review....
...“Mifid II will drive a behavioural change,” says Scott Eaton, chief operating officer at MarketAxess Europe, the region’s largest corporate bond trading venue....
...Two successful Republican governors [Scott Walker and Rick Perry] whose super-PACs promised to drive many millions in TV ad spend already are out, with four more flailing,” she wrote this week....
...She also gave the same amount to Scott Walker, the Wisconsin governor who was originally seen as the main challenger to Mr Bush before Mr Trump and the outsiders upended the race....
...When Scott Walker delivered a fiery speech in Iowa in January, it was music to the ears of conservatives nervous about Jeb Bush becoming the standard bearer for Republicans and their campaign for the White...
...Jeb Bush, a former Florida governor, and Scott Walker, the Wisconsin governor, have yet to declare and eight more Republicans are considering a White House run....
...Scott O’Malia is chief executive of the International Swaps and Derivatives Association...
...Robert Greenhill and chief executive Scott Bok owned a third of Greenhill’s shares between them at the time of the IPO. Now they own 7 per cent....
...In Your Creative Brain, Shelley Carson, a Harvard psychologist, explains why some people are bold connectors of ideas and others are not....
...Scott Moffitt, head of sales and marketing for Nintendo, told me the Wii U was on course to meet the company’s target of selling 5.5m units by the end of its fiscal year in March....
...He was tearing through Hunter S Thompson, Jack Kerouac, Ernest Hemingway and F Scott Fitzgerald, “and they’re all drunks”. Goodman says: “All the great actors were drunks....
...Fadel Gheit, analyst at Oppenheimer, called the acquisition “excellent” and said: “The integration of Carson into Tesoro’s west coast system could generate $250m in annual synergies.”...
...As part of its bid it has brought in Italy’s Charme II Fund, managed by Luca Cordero di Montezemolo, chairman of Ferrari....
...Carson Block, founder of Muddy Waters Research, triggered a 21 per cent drop in Olam’s shares in the US after he told an investment conference in London he was betting against the company....
...Virtually from the moment Scott Thompson of PayPal was selected to take the helm at Yahoo last week, analysts and commentators started picking at the online media and advertising holes in his curriculum...
...And using ETFs to access fixed income or commodities can present problems, says Ben Seager-Scott at broker Bestinvest....
...Scott Parker, head of performance and technology at KPMG, says the market has been a rollercoaster, with some sectors of the economy hiring management consultants, as others continue to axe them....
...In the film, hyped as the season’s hot-ticket action thriller, Denzel Washington and Chris Pine give chase in a second locomotive; Tony Scott, a Brit gone native in Lalaland (Man on Fire, Déjà Vu), directs...
...Scott Thiel, deputy chief investment officer of fundamental fixed income at BlackRock, agrees....
...Scott Powers, chief executive of State Street Global Advisors, has helped create what must surely be one of the dullest jobs in the world. But he is far from apologetic....
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