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...As part of the WPD deal, National Grid sold Narragansett Electric Company, its Rhode Island gas and electricity business, to PPL Corporation....
...Instead, banks raced to meet demands from corporations to keep funding lines open. In the process, debt issuance boomed and bolstered gains flooding in from new equity offerings. Fees came pouring in....
...One scoop to start: JPMorgan Chase lost out to Morgan Stanley in the $7bn bidding war to buy US investment manager Eaton Vance, a revelation that highlights the fierce competition among Wall Street powerhouses...
...Toyota got a second chance in 2018 as Chinese premier Li Keqiang visited its plant in Hokkaido. Li took interest in Toyota’s fuel cell vehicle, a technology he saw as key to emissions reduction....
...A month later, Daniel Zhang, Mr Ma’s successor as Alibaba CEO and chairman, made a contrite climbdown....
...Even at that low end, Mr Jacobs would need to rustle up $90bn in new debt and equity, as well as be able to support Qualcomm’s existing $23bn debt load....
...Eaton, the electrical products manufacturing group that relocated its headquarters to Ireland after buying Cooper Industries in an “inversion” deal in 2012, has also said it expects to face a higher tax...
...Born in 1921 as the eldest son of a wealthy sake-brewing family, Morita broke with tradition by leaving his family business in his mid-20s to set up a tiny electrical engineering firm inside a bombed-out...
...Mr Cutler added that, in the companies two biggest segments – which make electrical control equipment – demand had been strongest in the US, Middle East and Latin America and weakest in Europe and Asia-Pacific...
...Sandy Cutler, chief executive of Eaton Corporation, the diversified industrial group, says the trucking weakness reflects consumers’ concerns over the potential impact of fiscal cliff tax rises and spending...
...to serve the electrical industry,” Alexander Cutler, Eaton’s chairman and chief executive, said....
...That view was echoed by Sandy Cutler, chief executive of Eaton, the manufacturer of industrial equipment and components that also reported record quarterly profits on Monday....
...Eaton, which makes electrical equipment and components for vehicles and aircraft, reported an 80 per cent increase in earnings per share, with particularly strong growth from its hydraulics and truck component...
...Nor are interest rate rises in emerging economies such as Brazil and China yet having much effect on demand for US manufacturers’ products....
...BAE declined to reveal the identity of the bidders but rumours have focused on three US groups: the private equity firm Warburg Pincus, and the industrial conglomerates General Electric and Eaton Corporation...
...Cutler, chairman and chief executive of Eaton Corporation , and Ivan Seidenberg, chairman and chief executive of Verizon Communications....
...The Fed left benchmark overnight interest rates steady in a zero to 0.25 per cent range, as expected....
...Companies cannot postpone those spending decisions forever,” says Sandy Cutler, chief executive of Eaton, the industrial group that last month beat Wall Street’s expectations with its second-quarter results...
...Frost & Sullivan, the industry analysts, said the combined Emerson-Chloride operation would move into second place in the global UPS market, ahead of Eaton Electrical and behind France’s Schneider....
...initial blast of personal attacks and with whose office she enjoys “a constant hum of traffic” – giving the lie, she says, to claims that America has lost interest in our continent....
...Eleven years ago, Eaton sold what Mr Cutler calls the company’s “mother product line”, its axle and brake business. In the decade that followed, Eaton snapped up 42 companies....
...Under Ho, who holds a masters degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University, Temasek has bought stakes in China Construction Bank Corporation and Bank of China....
...A year later, filtration specialist Domnick Hunter was bought by Parker Hannifin for £250m after US rival Eaton Corporation withdrew from the ring....
...Cliff Quisenberry, who manages emerging markets equities for Eaton Vance funds in the US, points out that globalisation has changed the degree to which these markets correlate with the developed world, and...
...At the other end, there is growing interest in “frontier” markets – so called because it is not even clear they yet deserve to be called emerging....
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