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...Paul Weiss has hired Miko Bradford as chief operating officer and senior legal counsel to its debt finance and high-yield group in London....
...The Bradford-based company said it expected annual profit before tax to be in the range of £335m-£365m, narrower than its previous £325m-£375m....
...Citigroup was positive on Morrison, however, saying negative sentiment on the Bradford-based company was already priced in, as it adjusted its target price lower from 220p to 190p to reflect recent losses...
...The Bradford-based supermarket said its underlying pre-tax profit in the first six months fell 51 per cent to £181m, although the market had expected a more severe drop to £174m....
...Dennis Holt, Co-op Bank’s senior independent director, will act as interim chairman from October until a replacement for Mr Pym has been found....
...Bradford Shellhammer, the New York-based entrepreneur and co-founder of Fab.com, flew 300,000 miles in 2013 but refused to sacrifice style for cosiness....
...The last homegrown volume car manufacturer in Yorkshire and the northeast, Bradford’s Jowett, may have ceased production in 1955 but the region’s eclectic mix of commercial vehicle producers has come through...
...But more Newcastle jobs are going at UK Asset Resolution, as it winds down the Northern Rock and Bradford & Bingley mortgage books....
...Steve Waud, fund director of the Business Enterprise Fund, a Bradford-based community development finance initiative (CDFI), says this should be seen as a concern....
...Geoffrey Dennis, global Emerging Markets strategist at Citigroup, said the deal looked like ICBC “is making a bet on the long term prospects of Argentina”....
...Labour MP Dennis Skinner has asked how the coalition will know when to pull out of Libya....
...Northern Rock and Bradford & Bingley are already under full state control. Mr Kingman was born in 1969 into a distinguished academic family....
...Within days, Fortis, Bradford & Bingley, Glitnir and Dexia were forced into accepting government bail-outs....
...However, Bradford & Bingley bucked the trend amid reports the Financial Services Authority had approached potential ”white knights” as a contingency should the company be hit by further market turmoil....
...Bradford & Bingley, which was forced last week into lowering its rights issue price, rose 9.9 per cent to 72½p....
...Bradford & Bingley slumped 16 per cent to a record low of 42p and now sits at a 23.6 per cent discount to the price investors are being offered for new shares in its £400m rights issue....
...Irish lenders were the latest to feel the effects of nervous European markets after the battering received by British banks on Monday when Bradford & Bingley warned on profit and lowered the price its rights...
...Bradford & Bingley slid 4.9 per cent to 68½p....
...Please pick up – Dennis Stevenson here. From HBOS. Very excited to learn you’re as, ah, interested in HBOS’s future as we are. Frightfully sorry we haven’t as yet had a chance to meet....
...In results released on Wednesday, Bradford & Bingley, the mortgage lender, revealed a sharp increase in arrears. B&B was unable to claw back any of Wednesday’s 23 per cent loss....
...We’re also working up some interesting stuff on Felix Dennis, Scottish whisky and private equity....
...The government should base its policy decisions on their own merit, and not on the way it might play in Bradford or Leeds, and certainly not on the potential actions of terror groups....
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