Hints and tips:
...Morocco, the winners of Group F, take on Spain, the runners up in Group E, in the early kick-off. In the later game Portugal, the winners of Group H, play Switzerland from Group G....
...Morten O. Ravn: Hopefully not....
...Bakkavor and more potential for revenue synergies from recent M&A (e.g....
... Telia: u/g to Neutral – cash flows, dividends have bottomed....
...This was likely the result of a severe snowstorm affecting the US northeast and incomplete market participation (e.g. it was one of the lowest futures contract volumes on any Fed announcement days)....
...This is interesting because it corroborates other stories (e.g. from the British Retail Consortium) that the high street struggled during the January sales and discounts may therefore have been higher than...
...over email after the market closed: The big hit on stocks was in the banking sector… which is natural given the restrictions will hit trading very hard, other sectors ex-energy of course hit less hard e.g...
...Shadow health secretary Andy Burnham told the FT he would “reset” expectations of the NHS and ask the public to “tak[e] only what [they] need” from the health service....
...That seems fair, but when those P/E multiples are adjusted for forward growth (the PE/G ratio) only IBM is at a discount to its average....
...So if the currency is say 30% over-valued, the risk is that it adjusts by 50-60%, e.g. more akin to Iceland in 2008, Belarus in 2011, than the managed depreciation of the KZT in Kazakhstan this week....
...- The correction that cometh like a thief in the night. - An asset-allocation missive from Hugh G. Shortphall. - Will more disclosure really stop insider trading? Is it even the SEC’s top priority?...
...No one expects an early correction in bond markets while Fed action continues....
...Wetston, James E. A. Turner, Kevin J. Kelly, James D. Carnwath, Mary G. Condon, Paulette L. Kennedy, Vern Krishna, Christopher Portner and Edward P....
...Demand for detention and correction services has outstripped supply of federal and state facilities....
...Suppose it was my practise to benefit unduly from people introducing these companies and I did it with E and O. I would do it with Kodjo Alatta and Kofi Esson....
...Many of Anglo’s largest shareholders, including Legal & General, M&G and Barclays Global Investors, also have holdings in Xstrata....
...In many other countries where inequality had not risen in the 1980s (e.g. Scandinavia and Germany) inequality has also been rising....
...“Type in ‘dog’ and the engines don’t understand dog, they just recognise the characters d, o and g....
...In your view what are the main reasons why people (e.g. at Lehman, Fannie, Freddie, etc.) could not act since Bear Stearns’s failure, if not even earlier, and needed to wait till the last minute?...
...And the writer that many of us were keenest to hear was that very English star of the American screen Richard E....
...First, financing for an announced leveraged buy-out (e.g., Chrysler or First Data) cannot be completed; Second, there is a contagion within the structured product market that impairs the ability to securitize...
.... ……………………………………………………………………………………………………… There seems to have been a broad failure of the ratings companies in the US to properly downgrade assets (e.g. CDOs) based on home mortgages....
...Ameritrade added 8.8 per cent to 15.58, and E*Trade soared 11.3 per cent to $21.57. Exchanges followed the investment banks higher....
...P&G added 0.9 per cent to $54.45, posting its biggest one day gain in over a year on Thursday. J&J was up 1.1 per cent to $61.38....
...Communications stocks were the week’s strongest performers, in spite of a precipitous fall for ADC Telecommunications, which sank 23.5 per cent to $17.63 after it announced it would buy Andrew Corp for $2bn...
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