Hints and tips:
...This article has been amended to reflect the details of Millennium’s 2005 settlement...
...What if we no longer chase soaring winners and abandon tumbling losers, and instead choose stocks based on a more stable metric, namely, the size of the underlying business?...
...See Andaloro, 2005 WL 2045640, at *15 & n.61. In this specific case, both measures are problematic because the reliability of an observed beta depends on an efficient trading market....
...June 2005: Shine sells 15 per cent stake to Sony for £5m, valuing the business at £33m....
...This gives it more flexibility than McDonald’s, which prefers a stable of dedicated suppliers. That approach can make KFC’s supply chains harder to oversee....
...Werner said: From a loan growth perspective, this marks the weakest start to a new year since 2005....
...“They’re not very stable entities, these partnerships,” says Brian Quinn, professor at Boston College Law School. “Your biggest assets are highly mobile partners....
...Fitness First’s “trading is reasonably stable but not meeting expectations”, said a person familiar with the matter....
...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....
...Thursday’s $287m acquisition by United Business Media of Canon Communications, a US-based group offering trade shows, websites and magazines, is the first since David Levin took over as chief executive in 2005...
...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...
...Now the company absolutely must refinance, but stable cashflows have yet to materialize....
...We meet at Studio 606, the 8,000 sq ft recording space he built in 2005 in the Northridge area of Los Angeles....
...Companies from the developing world have also done significantly better than those in the US and Europe, with Latin America leading the pack in stable returns since January 2005....
...Bango listed in 2005 at 134p to raise funds to expand into the US market. The shares closed down 1 per cent at 48p....
...Thierry Porte, who succeeded Mr Yashiro in 2005, and whose background was in investment banking, led Shinsei further down an unfamiliar path into risky overseas investments....
...The provisions related to Chapter 11 bankruptcy filings made in recent months by two supermarket chains, Bi-Lo and Bruno’s, that Ahold sold in 2005....
...Kef’s revenues have more than doubled since 2005, to Dh420.4m ($114.5m) in 2008, and net profit has risen tenfold to Dh79m, according to audited figures provided by DIC....
...As the recession has deepened, meanwhile, bankruptcy filings are once more approaching 2005 levels, fuelling the credit card meltdown....
...He points to the rising cost in franchise fees, up from $7.5m (€5.6m, £4.4m) in 2005 to $40m now, as evidence of growing investor interest....
...The brewery, parts of which date back to the mid-19th century, is one of the city’s main tourist attractions, with visitors coming to see its Clydesdale horse stables and old brewing vats....
...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 another person close to the matter said that as markets have become more stable in recent days discussions have resumed at Renaissance....
...where funds which have produced double-digit returns for the year to date now look like world-beaters, but there’s been nothing like the level of outflows that accompanied previous market wobbles in 1998, 2005...
...Margins were stable. Execution has improved. The big picture has not....
International Edition