Hints and tips:
...“Status quo is no longer an option,” says JPMorgan analyst Kian Abouhossein....
...(FT) Contactless dining: Japanese restaurant chain Skylark is using robots to serve in its 2,000 restaurants....
...Oil services groups predominate at the SPE Offshore Europe Conference in the “Granite City”....
...Eventually, 37 women in one village made a public, voluntary declaration that they would no longer practise the tradition of FGC. They were not struck down by misfortune....
...This from Moody’s: On August 15, 2012, the FGC published a Special Opening Balance Sheet as of June 4, 2012, which presents a negative equity position of R$2.237 billion after adjustments of R$3.11 billion...
...The seizure of Cruzeiro do Sul comes about 18 months after the central bank and the FGC engineered a R$2.5bn bailout of Banco PanAmericano, one of the biggest providers of used car loans, which faced collapse...
...A bit nonsensical given that it’s their own survey — but we guess no one can read everything all of the time and/or they are just being conservative....
...guarantee fund (FGC), a private institution funded by the banking sector....
...Considering that some banks reported having over 2,000 affiliated SPEs, according to the Forum, we’d say that’s a pretty big deficiency....
...As energy prices tumbled, Centrica’s shareholders complained that the price no longer made sense....
...It is to sell its small businesses in the Netherlands and Spain, having already agreed to use its stake in SPE of Belgium as part payment in the £2.3bn deal to take a 20 per cent stake in British Energy,...
...Centrica has raised £2.2bn in a rights issue and secured a further £3bn in debt from bond issues and bank facilities to finance those deals....
...No you are not dreaming....
...Suffice to say that Deutsche is no longer sure that it will meet profit expectations this year. Its shares were off 2 per cent in early trade in Frankfurt....
...Accountants stress that there is no black and white rule to be applied to SPEs. “Accounting for any SPE always involves a lot of judgment” said Andrew Spooner, a partner at Deloitte....
...Gaz de France has virtually no electricity business in France while Suez claims just 2-3 per cent market share in gas....
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