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...Google Trends As well as the seasonal overtones (ice, angel, Turkey etc), there was a further theme to these answers, which could have made it a bit easier. . . the first letters of each answer spell out C-H-R-I-S-T-M-A-S...
...Chess 24341 d4 2 d5 3 d6 4 dxc7 5 dxb8=R! 6 Rxb7 7 Rxd7 8 Rxd8 mate. Chess 24331 h4! Bc1 (other bishop moves are no better) 2 Qxg6!...
...According to MMO Population tracker, it has c 18.7m subscribers and 353k daily active players which ranks number 14 of 140 tracked MMOs....
...So no-one was there to point out that this (r-g) thing misses the state’s biggest contractual financial liabilities....
...” said Georgia O’Keeffe, America’s first great Modern painter....
...Prada nylon crepe de chine and paper-detail dress, £2,400. Ariat leather Heritage R Toe Western boots, £160....
...The Stories She Wears is a six-month programme focusing on teaching practical techniques in local styles, upcycled fashion, traditional textile design and financial literacy. pradagroup.com; unfpa.org G...
...Supply chain researcher Kevin O’Marah vividly remembers his confusion when, in mid-2007, Apple vaulted from out of nowhere into the No. 2 spot of the Supply Chain Top 25, an annual ranking of the world’s...
...The venture is backed by the Greater Manchester and West Yorkshire pension funds, savings and investment group M&G and asset managers Columbia Threadneedle....
...C Coaching After Wimbledon, the men’s tour will trial allowing coaching during matches....
...Morten O. Ravn: Hopefully not....
...The Times later adds: [O]ne of the ideas mooted by the bid team is seeking private equity backing to make a play for IHG....
...We are more aggressive on O&G, assigning ‘zero’ value to reflect the structural challenges facing the business....
...Middlesbrough; Heather Morrey, Sussex Polymath 1,037: Michael Crapper, Whitchurch Crossword 16,254: Richard Heaton, London; Hector Langfeldt, Birmingham; Saira Kamaly, London Polymath 1,036: Eamonn O’...
...Is Oil’s loss … At 20% of revenue, the group’s O&G exposure is a known concern....
...Refining capacity is to shrink c.30% by 2030, from c.1.7mbd to 1.5mbd by 2025 then to 1.2mbd by 2030....
...Stifel likes: The company has agreed to pay a cash consideration of $130m on a cash and debt-free basis, which equates to c.2.9x 2019 revenues and c.9.7x EBITDA 2019 EBITDA....
...Cineplex’s shares have been trading well below the C$34-a-share offer price since mid-March. Spurned Cineplex plans to sue for damages....
...GILD’s c$15bn cost base vs $11bn core op.income, of which c$5bn lies in R&D/SG&A), but also require very significant job cuts at a time of global economic hardship....
...Completely unrelatedly, here’s a nice bit of O&G fantasy M&A from Peel Hunt (Energean and Premier are excluded from its analysis because they’re already buying things....
...For the combined company, Aveva expects a PF revenue of c.£1.2 bn and Adjusted EBIT of c.£330 mn (c.28% margin)....
...o NII: >$3bn impact in FY20 (vs. FY19) from lower interest rates vs. c$1bn prev. guidance....
...We downgrade Aggreko to Underperform (from Outperform), given longterm structural headwinds, low returns and near-term challenges in events and O&G....
...At the Operating level, the 4% topline beat was amplified by 5% lower R&D, and on the bottom-line, the company benefitted from a 350bps lower than anticipated tax rate (13.7% vs. 17.2%), due to revaluation...
...If this proves to be the case, then lower output and unchanged prices could see GCC OPEC-3 energy export revenues drop by USD45bn on our current estimates (chart 2), and some USD140bn (45%) y-o-y....
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