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...The General Motors strike registered last month as motor vehicle and parts manufacturing payrolls declined 42,000. The unemployment rate rose 0.1 per cent to 3.6 per cent, matching estimates....
...Many French cinema owners, who are putting pressure on Cannes to resist Netflix et al, see the streamers’ disruptive attitude as an incursion into their territory....
...“Uncertainty around Homebase, Poundworld et al presents opportunity for B&M from both a property and a capacity withdrawal perspective....
...Meanwhile, General Motors has begun selling the Chevrolet Bolt, a long-range affordable car, while Nissan announced its family-priced electric Leaf would also have greater range on a single charge in 2018...
...— Recent research by Gorton et . al about the form and role of banks as maturity transformers and creators of “private money” is very relevant to this discussion....
...(Bloomberg) - How Goldman (et al)’s aluminium warehousing cost American consumers $5bn in three years. (New York Times) - The commodities supercycle is still ending....
...No surprise to see GMO et al flag up “impact on third parties” from the start....
...Azevedo et al called it something different — “in the nature of a bribe”....
...Council Abdullatif al-Zayani....
...Sales at General Motors and Ford fell 8.2 per cent and 5 per cent respectively but beat estimates and GM raised its industry sales forecast for the year, according to the FT....
...The largest is Topaz, a 147-metre vessel built by Germany’s Lürssen Yachts for a client thought to be from Abu Dhabi’s ruling Al Nahyan family....
...Worse, HMC et al could be doing this amid a strengthening won and a weakening yen. Hyundai is just beginning to shift focus from volume growth to serious margin enhancement....
...Toyota had enjoyed a shining reputation for quality and reliability, helping it to overtake General Motors in 2008 as the world’s biggest carmaker....
...The fact General Motors has just slipped into the gloom of Chapter 11, only reminds finance directors of the mortality of once impregnable corporate names, compared with the expensive tendency of pensioners...
...What really happened at Northern Rock, Royal Bank of Scotland et al? This gives you a clearer idea....
...*Hedge Fund Activism, Corporate Governance, and Firm Performance (2006), Brav et al...
...They’re a booming business, according to a Bloomberg article out today: Credit-recovery swaps are trading on the debt of about 70 companies, including automaker General Motors Corp. and bond- insurer MBIA...
...A shareholder derivative action in the Delaware Court of Chancery: Seymour v. Samuels, et al....
...Wagoner et al could live with this if it was all the Cee’d had going for it....
...Insurance Australia Group, Australia’s leading general insurer, is buying Equity Insurance Group, the British motor insurer and broker, for £570m....
...Boone Pickens et al, you have to look at their views with a jaundiced eye. After all, Mr Pickens manages a $4bn energy hedge fund. So he obviously has a vested interest in the direction of prices....
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...The former, a study of the workings of General Motors, was the first detailed account of the way a large company operated....
...Again, Hugenholtz et al, point out that the majority of cases brought under the Directive have been about databases that would have been created anyway - telephone numbers, television schedules, concert...
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