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...Parcel Service Q1, Visa Q2, W R Berkley Q1 Wednesday Germany: Ifo Business Climate survey US: monthly durable goods orders data Results: Abrdn Q1 trading statement, AT&T Q1, Baker Hughes Q1, Boeing...
...Mr Abney, announcing his last earnings before retiring from the parcel delivery company, said he had never seen such “demand variability” in his 46-year career....
...“FedEx does skew the reading on the Transports index, but does not wash it out entirely,” said Nicholas Colas, co-founder of DataTrek....
...Kathryn Petralia, co-founder of Kabbage, told the Financial Times that the deal would finance growth in the company’s direct lending operation, which has provided nearly $3.5bn of funding to more than 100,000...
...“There’s a lot of deal activity now,” says Florian Hoppe, partner at Bain & Co in Singapore. “It’s clearly an escalating battle and the impacted sectors are getting broader and broader.”...
...Scripps: Allen & Co, JPMorgan and Weil Gotshal....
...Even the better-known Chicago-born Groupon, the site which offers daily deals on goods and services to retail customers, has strong connections to the city’s corporate past....
Dow barometer records sixth consecutive weekly gain
...The same-day courier service sector alone is now worth £7bn a year in the UK, according to market research group IBISWorld. The extent of Uber’s ambitions is set out by parcels broker ParcelHero....
...the market for premium VOD services in late March....
...James Manyika, co-head of the McKinsey Global Institute, suggests the picture is far more nuanced....
...Forwarded Google v Uber Alphabet is planning to launch a fleet of self-driving cars for hire next year, which will have it competing with Uber....
...Only mine’s broke down,” once sang Gary Numan about a prostitute service robot of the future....
...“We think this is fixable but could require a shift in strategy, a heavy investment in ad product and/or co-operation with/ownership by a scale player.”...
...United Parcel Service (Delivery Services) 70. Banco Santander (Finance) 71. BMW (Automotive) 72. Accenture (Finance) 73. Sony (Technology) 74. Coca-Cola (Consumer Goods) 75....
...Competition policy has become a key weapon for Brussels as it launches a high-profile attempt to shake up rules on copyright, ecommerce and parcel delivery as part of its so-called “digital single market...
...Look out for Skynet 3D Printing Inc’s crowdfunding campaign to build a time machine very soon. Back to the top of the page...
...over allegations about the legality of the service....
...UPS was the worst-performing stock on the US benchmark, after the parcel delivery service warned that 2014 profits would fall short....
...Investors liked what they heard from parcel delivery company and US economic bellwether UPS, which beat third-quarter earnings expectations....
...One investor told the FT that David Bonderman, a TPG co-founder, has become less involved in day-to-day decision making....
...On the ground floor of United Parcel Service’s $2.2bn Worldport Hub, workers are stuffing into huge airfreight containers some of the roughly 1.1m packages that the centre in Louisville, Kentucky, handles...
...The title “partner” no longer confers co-ownership of Goldman, which floated in 1999. But nor is it solely honorific....
...On spotting John McCaw in the lobby of the George V hotel in Paris, Donald Pels cracked a smile....
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