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...While there have been exceptions (eg, Sherwin-Williams’ soft guidance), the tone among the consumer companies we keep an eye on has been notably positive....
...In roughly chronological order, William Cobbett, Woodward and Bernstein, Sir Harold Evans and Ryszard Kapuściński....
...diplomatic wranglings and trade wars were dying down, the EU this week contrived to crank up tensions with Russia, after the European Medicines Agency questioned the ethics behind trials of the Sputnik V...
...Send any thoughts to trade.secrets@ft.com, or email me at aime.williams@ft.com....
...An early paper published by the Rand Corporation is The Prediction of Social and Technological Events (1949)....
...Yes, the numbers are bigger, but the shock, while not a V is shorter and sharper than that crash, and the pre-crisis fiscal situation was strong....
...Sebastian Pinto-Thomaz, 33, is accused of sharing information about Sherwin-Williams’ $9.3bn takeover of Valspar Corporation in 2016 with two friends, whom authorities alleged traded ahead of the deal to...
...Relying on private companies is no panacea. In search of innovation and lower costs, Nasa treats companies as partners rather than simple contractors....
...And after Sherwin-Williams acquired paint manufacturer Valspar last year, funded by $6bn of triple B bonds, Moody’s forecast leverage will fall below 3 times from 4.5 times within two years....
...In March 2016 Sherwin-Williams, a leading US paint maker, agreed to pay $11.3bn for domestic rival Valspar, and highlighted opportunities to trim overheads....
...Since a 1984 Supreme Court ruling in Chevron v Natural Resources Defense Council, the court has bowed to bureaucrats in deciding whether their actions are justified....
...“The very first time I heard about the postmodern choreographer William Forsythe, and the first time I was encouraged to go to the Opera House, was from one of these 80-year-old ladies,” he says....
...A reform of US corporation tax would reduce the competitive advantage of the UK’s present corporation tax policy....
...ULA’s Atlas V rocket – used for many of the US’s most sensitive military launches – relies on a Russian-supplied RD180 engine....
...SpaceX’s entirely US-built Falcon rocket is working towards being certified for use to launch US national security satellites, as are the vehicles of Orbital Sciences Corporation, another company working...
...low-cost companies....
...To mark his 70th, Paul McCartney put in a guest appearance, as did comedian Robin Williams....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...she says, as a V-shaped crack in the island’s cliffs reveals the settlement of Jamestown. “And it’s British!”...
...POP Ziggyology , by Simon Goddard, Ebury Press, £20, 352 pages After the comeback and the V&A retrospective comes Bowie fatigue. Do we need more adulation?...
...Their target is a small South Africa-based company whose main asset is in the Democratic Republic of Congo....
...A judge in Regina v....
...Paramjit Bassi, chairman, Bond Wolfe, private investment company. William Baxter, deputy chief executive, BaxterStorey, catering services company. Sarah Connolly, opera singer....
...Trevor Williams, Lloyds TSB UK growth will be underway in 2010, but it is likely to be a sub par recovery due to the severity of the global economic and financial market crisis....
...How the Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In By Jim Collins Random House Business Books, £15.99 The author who told us how companies can go “from good to great” now explains how they can sink...
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