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...Actis, created as a development finance arm of the UK government, was spun out in 2004 after its management team bought a 60 per cent stake for £373,000....
...PM: By that point, Facebook has IPO-ed . . . it’s been free from its founding in 2004 or whatever it was....
...Possibly, the declining leverage ratio is the reason for S&P changing China’s outlook from negative to stable....
...I don't manage Hindsight Capital LLC, and so I and my fellow readers need to operate in the present....
...The three London properties were held by Coroin, an Irish company set up by Patrick McKillen and other investors including the financier Derek Quinlan to buy trophy hotels in 2004 financed by cheap and easy...
...The move brings such shows as Ugly Betty, pictured, into the Shine stable. The move pushes Shine’s value to £250m....
...RGE is strong, stable and independent....
...He built the Stonestreet Stables in Kentucky and set about buying both foals and proven winners. In 2004, at one single sale, he spent $22m on 95 horses....
...Stable and reliable partnerships with Russia can exist only where our fundamental common values, are shared and applied: where human rights are protected, property rights are secure, and justice prevails...
...But because infrastructure assets, such as toll roads and water-treatment plants, tend to have more stable long-term cash flows, they are more attractive when the economy is slowing....
...In Abu Dhabi, home of the region’s largest and wealthiest stable of funds, no such announcements have been made....
...Though it always possessed a stable of talented bankers and traders, the bank’s emphasis on individual initiative seemed to invite dissent among senior executives, Mr Auletta wrote....
...But, making the problem doubly pernicious, it remains unclear how stable the current pattern is....
...“This is a great place to live and it is a stable place for the most part,” Hoad says. “It’s not in your face and it’s not dangerous....
...According to Dealogic, Sweden’s Arlington Tankers raised $263m by selling shares on NYSE in late 2004. The five biggest recent foreign listings came from Asia and all fetched at least $1bn....
...Last year, healthcare deals in the UK by private equity companies totalled £4.5bn, up from £1.5bn in 2004, according to the Centre for Management Buy-Out Research....
...Net earnings in 2004 totalled SFr5.6bn. The market has been supportive....
...A better mousetrap More fundamentally, investment banking is becoming a better, more stable business....
...The more stable private banking, asset management and Swiss banking units some 60 per cent of group profits showed good cost control. Investment banking was more mixed....
...Cameco produced 20.5m lb of uranium oxide in 2004, mainly from its bountiful mines in northern Saskatchewan, Canada....
...Hedge funds ended 2004 at a sprint, rather like Kelly Holmes breasting the tape to win her two Olympic gold medals....
...“We believe CNP remains a stable company, and gives an attractive exposure to the French life insurance market....
...said: “The value of ASML’s backlog is currently the highest in the company’s history, and we remain convinced of the company’s ability to provide a solid financial performance for the final quarter of 2004...
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