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...Though I have long been in charge of the construction crew, Charlie should forever be credited with being the architect.”...
...Payments company Visa, for example, had received a two for “E” and “S” and a three for “G”....
...Apply P&G’s trailing multiple and the business could be worth as much as $49bn. That would be a stretch. The US equity capital markets are in a deep freeze....
...Higher interest rates have hit Berkshire’s building and construction units acutely....
...Fixed income funds tend to do a bit better, thanks to the inefficiency of bond markets and flaws in bond index construction....
...Merck sold its consumer products division to P&G in 2018. A year later GSK and Pfizer formed a joint venture from their consumer products divisions, which they plan to spin off next year....
...Chairman Sir Arthur Bryan’s acclaimed takeover of smaller potteries — Adams, Coalport, Masons Ironstone, J&G Meakin, Johnson Bros and glassmaker Waterford Crystal — in the ’70s led ultimately to their annihilation...
...“Everything from facility construction, to equipment installation, to vehicle component supply (especially semiconductors) has been impacted by the pandemic,” Scaringe wrote....
...Worth more than Aviva, Arthur J Gallagher and Hannover Rück -- the third largest reinsurer globally....
...The manufacturing and construction sectors are both likely to take a hit too....
...Within the past week, the denim fashion companies G-Star RAW and Lucky Brand have filed for Chapter 11 protection....
...A Gazprom director profited from a secret scheme linked to the construction of a multibillion-dollar gas pipeline between central Asia and China, according to documents seen by the Financial Times....
...Bill Michael wants KPMG back in the good books After construction group Carillion collapsed in 2018, one UK MP declared that he “wouldn’t hire KPMG to audit the contents of my fridge”....
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...That’s bad for J Sainsbury, whose bank has been a white elephant for some time....
...Store openings resumed post lockdown: As expected, some store openings (e.g....
...Likewise, the recovery in the last three weeks is largely due to relief that the hit might not be as bad as feared (e.g....
...Andrew Garthwaite and team at Credit Suisse are buying digitalisation, telecom equipment and construction (on expectations of infrastructure QE)....
...The construction group’s prospects remain strong, with growth “underpinned by the structural rise in demand for infrastructure provision and renewable energy production”, said HSBC....
...If Debt/GDP is about 1 now (UK-US levels) you can run a primary deficit of (g-r) — where g is growth rate and r is real cost of borrowing — and keep Debt/GDP constant....
...The company hired J & L Staffing & Recruiting, a Sioux City employment agency, to find workers....
...That raised £100m in March of this year from GIC in Singapore, China Construction Bank and Australia’s Hostplus....
...That meant it was worth less than the £29m left in Carillion’s bank account when the construction group’s own lenders refused to add to its £1bn debt....
...The decline in J&J shares, along with a drop in P&G, dragged on the share price-weighted Dow Jones Industrial Average....
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