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...At Barclays, Edward Bramson’s Sherborne Investors failed to convince other shareholders of his plan to shrink its investment bank during a three-year effort that ended in 2021....
...Had Vice-president Humphrey shown some mettle and opposed President Lyndon B Johnson’s bombing of North Vietnam, he might well have won the general election....
...The policies were dubbed “Likonomics” by Barclays analysts....
...[enlarge] Here comes the B word. Peak hard Brexit angst?...
...The heroic Lukas B Brændsrød partnered superbly, suspending Cuthbertson aloft like an angel peeling away from a Pozzo ceiling....
...It was this imbalance in returns that was at the crux of a three-year campaign by activist Edward Bramson to scale back the UK’s last remaining global investment bank....
...Now, the country produces almost 20mn b/d, roughly in line with consumption....
...The group of senior class A and subordinate class B bonds are securitised at the operating companies....
...Barclays in 2013 dubbed his platform “Likonomics”, which it summarised as: “No stimulus, deleveraging and structural reform.”...
...Five Tory MPs, including Edward Leigh and John Hayes, have written to deputy prime minister Oliver Dowden, business secretary Kemi Badenoch and culture secretary Lucy Frazer questioning the use of overseas...
...This imbalance was the subject of a vitriolic three-year campaign by activist Edward Bramson, who tried to force his way on to the board and dramatically shrink its trading unit....
...Barclays and Citigroup are an interesting comparison....
...It was 1999 when Argentine-Israeli conductor Daniel Barenboim and Palestinian-American academic Edward Said founded the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra....
...Big share price moves in Europe today include Luxembourg-based discount retailer B&M, Swedish video game maker Embracer and UK-based digital services company Capita: B&M: Shares in the discount retailer...
...And you know, similarly, you look at big banks, you look at Barclays and Citigroup in the United States, Barclays in the UK, Citigroup in the United States....
...Although activist Edward Bramson failed in his effort to shrink the investment bank, his ghost haunts investor sentiment....
...AlixPartners has been appointed as receiver at B.UK In a personal blow to the family, Aidan Barclay and Howard Barclay, the sons of the late Sir David Barclay, have been removed as directors of TMG and...
...I continue to think that a spring election is a) in the interests of the Conservative party and b) very unlikely for a number of reasons....
...Unscripted: The Epic Battle for a Hollywood Media Empire by James B Stewart and Rachel Abrams (Cornerstone Press/Penguin Press) Sex and power were the abiding obsessions of the colourful media mogul Sumner...
...losing confidence in management (FT) Barclays boss needs more than tweaks to regain shareholder trust (FT)...
...The UK bank has put B.UK, a Bermuda-based holding company that controls the Telegraph titles, into receivership, the people said. AlixPartners has been appointed as receiver at B.UK, they added....
...America’s ‘do-harm’ Congress: Republicans in Congress will not take yes for an answer, writes Edward Luce. They are blocking steps that they urgently demanded on immigration and Ukraine....
...Jefferies Q4 Tuesday World Bank’s Global Economic Prospects report is published EU: November unemployment rate Germany: November industrial production figures UK: BRC-KPMG Retail Sales Monitor, plus Barclays...
...(While there’s little public information on the Bermudian entity B.UK Limited, interested DD readers can learn a few more details from the Paradise Papers leak.)...
...And later, Barclays was attacked by Edward Bramson’s Sherborne. But nothing has come close to following the business-school textbooks....
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