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...subject of linguistic analysis and finance as economists use tools like natural language processing to systematically scour central bank speeches, newspaper headlines, earnings calls and even recondite bond docs...
...ISDA’s docs still set the standard for credit derivatives....
...They embraced green issues after Peter Seligmann, head of environmental group Conservation International, cunningly cultivated Rob Walton, Sam’s son who succeeded him as chairman....
...DD’s meal of choice will be popcorn. After all, it’s rare that we get a front seat to the inner workings of the stock market with this kind of line-up....
...International organic sales fell 5 per cent in beverages but rose 2 per cent in snacks....
...This was accompanied by rising appetite for snacks: sales of popcorn and crisps jumped, benefiting companies such as Mondelez....
...We forecast Next brand sales declining at c3-4% pa with EBIT margins -100bp pa, which will not be fully offset by International/Label....
...In tissues, for instance, retailers’ brands have only a 27 per cent share in the US compared with 55 per cent on the other side of the Atlantic, according to Euromonitor International....
...“It was a very aggressive deal, highly leveraged, crappy docs but people bought it up.”...
...Someone pass the popcorn. *Update: Microsoft have announced the deal is worth $7.5bn, to be paid in stock. Oof....
...Investors in Amplify, the maker of Skinny Pop popcorn and Tyrrells crisps, cheered after The Hershey Co said it would acquire the company in a deal valued at $1.6bn, including debt....
...“We see this as a fairly broad product over time,” says Erik Barmack, Netflix’s vice-president of international original content....
...Those docs contained private info on Goldman clients and prospects that he shared with Jiampietro. Bansal and his Fed source pleaded guilty to illegally obtaining the documents....
...Ukraine’s cyber crime police unit warned that updating functions in a domestic accounting software package known as M.E.doc was being used as a conduit to wage the “virus attack on Ukrainian companies”....
...The full doc is here and a good walk through of the full thing is here....
...Pass the popcorn. The sobriety that briefly seized Netflix shareholders has already passed....
...“The world has changed so much,” Melissa Lora, president of Taco Bell International, said on the opening day of its first store in Tokyo a fortnight ago....
...International warehousing companies that operate in China have also strengthened their controls....
...Colourless liquids are kept in flasks: one smells of berries, one is popcorn, another sweat....
...Mexico’s Cinépolis pulled in the punters not only with comfortable seats and digital technology – but also with local flavoured snacks, like chilli popcorn....
...US acts on patents http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/docs/patent_report.pdf...
...(Financial CDS proposed amendments draft doc in the usual place.)...
...On Wednesday, Jan Hurri at Taloussanomat took advantage of the Finnish government’s recent doc dump in order to reach a conclusion about its deal for ‘collateral’ on Greek bailout loans: It’s almost worthless...
...The first popcorns are already cooking.”...
...Related reading: LatAm banks: new target for China Inc?...
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