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...I was at a chipmaking facility builder’s earnings conference in Taipei with a lot of other reporters when the TSMC statement landed. We all immediately rushed out of the meeting room....
...Whether it’s an open-source developer or a Web3 aficionado, we believe that the unseen builders are the most important to our industry....
...Chip developers such as Qualcomm, NXP and Nvidia, he added, will probably negotiate to pass these price increases on to their own customers — namely device makers and electronics builders such as Apple,...
...Domestic rating agencies tend to be extremely generous: more than 80 per cent of nonfinancial issuers are rated double AA, according to S&P....
...The builders can hope to muddle through, as long as the rest of us do, too....
...Broad had gone into business as a builder in the 1950s, throwing up no-frills houses for young families seeking their first suburban foothold....
...Foxconn and Pegatron, which are iPhone assemblers, MacBook builder Quanta Computer and iPad maker Compal Electronics are among those increasing investments....
...Builders may yet face price pressure from nervy buyers....
...The one suit — double-breasted, with tie — is Nilesh Nagar, a reinsurance broker, who has popped out of his office near the Lloyd’s Building to post a letter....
...Neville Hawcock was a guest of the Buxton Crescent Hotel; doubles cost from £125....
...It was one of litany of regulatory news announcements from Woodford-held stocks such as the AA (number 42 in WEIF), Amigo (number 39) and Card Factory (number 44)....
...Similarly, the Virgin Double Take E-Saver account allows only two withdrawals a year, so you would need to plan around this....
...Mr Pun acknowledged his companies were taking a “double whack” from the global bear market and the Rakhine crisis....
...The Astra Structured Credit Investments Ltd Fund has returned a net 18.52 per cent on a five-year annualised basis....
...However, he does know how to achieve double-digit sales growth — in the US and the UK — from renting them out....
...Then there is FTSE 100-listed Micro Focus which has acquired a chunk of Hewlett-Packard’s software businesses, where it expects to more than double operating performance....
...It needs to double profit margins to justify shares trading at a whopping 25 times forecast earnings. But the dividend should be safe....
...One Nissan worker, formerly a diesel fitter at a bus manufacturer, enthused: “Where I worked before we had electricians, fitters and body-builders....
...In life insurance, strong demand for retirement products helped profits to more than double to £28m....
...Roadside assistance group AA, emblematic to critics of aggressive noughties private equity, is selling its Irish businesses to Carlyle for €156m. Profits before tax last year were €12m....
...Along with GVK, the list included GMR, the builder of Hyderabad and Delhi airports, and Tata, with the support of Italy’s DaVinci airport....
...Some Wall Street economists, such as Henry Kaufman, fear American companies are becoming feckless with debt; but in practical terms, the cost of funding triple-A debt today is roughly the same as that of double-A...
...“We estimate that a circa £2bn deal on which management double equity over three to four years is now being priced in.”...
...Its aim is to double in size by 2020 — and establish itself as a credible alternative to the big Hollywood studios. But that ambition has started to attract more scrutiny....
...Gigaclear, the British broadband networks builder, will this week announce new equity investment that will double the size of its business....
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