Hints and tips:
...The premium on offer is enough to send J&J investors’ hearts racing healthily. J&J’s $380 a share cash offer values Abiomed’s equity at around $17.3bn....
...Rival J Sainsbury has generated an almost identical performance. It is the same across other parts of the industry....
...Edward Bonham Carter will leave Jupiter Fund Management at the end of December after almost three decades at the City of London stalwart....
...It was started 15 years ago by the Eurosceptic business secretary, Jacob Rees-Mogg; Dominic Johnson, a former vice chair of the Conservative party; and fund manager Edward Robertson....
...So did pop acts such as Jessie J and Emeli Sande. Edwards filmed Ed Sheeran performing his song “You Need Me, I Don’t Need You” in 2010, a year before the singer-songwriter’s first chart hit....
...edward.luce@ft.com Letter in response to this column: Democrats should heed the national motto / From Michael J Bond, Mercer Island, WA, US...
...Edward Janger, a professor at Brooklyn Law School, said it is unlikely J&J’s strategy of insulating its assets from talc claims would work in the long term, but it had delayed them....
...“It is puzzling because they risk potentially throwing away all the brand equity of Johnson & Johnson,” he said....
...Buying into the beautiful game Private equity just can’t get enough of football....
...Edward Liu, former head of Americas technology banking at Morgan Stanley, has joined digital healthcare marketplace ZocDoc as chief financial officer....
...What he did not emphasise is how well America’s biggest private equity groups are doing. As ProPublica points out in this great piece, Blackstone’s shares are up 50 per cent since the crisis began....
...“I am nervous that he may have missed this whole rally,” said James Shanahan, an analyst with Edward Jones....
...Edward Luce responds Rana, there’s no one narrative that I would urge economists to pick up on to the exclusion of others....
...Labour wants the Treasury to spend £6bn by 2030 directly on offshore wind, a further £6bn via regional energy bodies, pulling in £12bn via direct equity stakes and a further £58bn using “limited-recourse...
...Much the same applies to the fate of our pandemic economies, writes Edward Luce. (FT) Should Big Tech flee Hong Kong?...
...As part of the restructuring process, the private equity-backed company has agreed to convert $1.65bn worth of debt into equity....
...In a blog post this week, she argued that the government could take equity stakes in Green New Deal projects, “so the public gets a return on its investment”....
...Richard J Daley college focuses on manufacturing. Its recently-opened facility includes laser machines, robotic simulators and vinyl cutters. Harry S Truman, meanwhile, focuses on education....
...Briefly Barclays’ AGM showdown with activist Edward Bramson is finally here....
...But the lack of detail on US trade policies meant “the precise impact on markets”, longer term, was still uncertain at this point, said Tai Hui, J.P....
...The company has hired J eremi Gorman from Amazon and Jared Grusd from the Huffington Post. Royal Bank of Canada’s European real estate team has made recent hires....
...to J.P....
...Equities will “bear the brunt” of the market reactions to the Trump administration’s tariff policies, said J.P. Morgan Asset Management global market strategist Hannah Anderson....
...Equities in Asia Pacific rose in early trading on Monday after data on jobs in the US beat forecasts on Friday and drove a strong close on Wall Street....
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