Hints and tips:
...Mark Gregory and Vicky Jarman are stepping down from the board of UK gambling group Entain....
...However, for most of this year, says Gregory Whiteley, a bond portfolio manager at DoubleLine Capital, it has been anything but straightforward....
...His Lincoln Center Theater staging of My Fair Lady (arriving at London’s ENO in May) tilts the ending to bring it back in line with Shaw’s original play, Pygmalion....
...“In the near-term, fiscal policy failures represent a significant risk to our economic outlook,” warned Nancy Vanden Houten and Gregory Daco of Oxford Economics in a note on Friday....
...The project is owned by a renewable energy subsidiary of DE Shaw, the New York hedge fund better known for its quantitative investing strategies, a Texas Public Utility Commission filing showed....
...“Our hunch is that the MPC will want to bide its time,” said Ruth Gregory, at the consultancy Capital Economics. Will the BoE say any more about how it will sequence the withdrawal of stimulus?...
...The changes were enough to satisfy DE Shaw, which ended its activist stance in March....
...The fund’s selection of people with significant energy experience — including Gregory Goff, a former chief executive of refiner Andeavor — could prove significant....
...Philip Shaw, economist at Investec, said this was a significant move....
...Following a proxy campaign backed by activist investors D E Shaw and Elliott Management, EQT last year installed Toby Rice as chief executive and replaced most of its board....
...“They stood by Trump on the trade issues even though it was hurting their pocketbooks, and then got repaid with an SRE knife between their shoulder blades,” Monte Shaw, executive director of the Iowa Renewable...
...He was brought in to improve Bunge’s operations as the company faced pressure from activist shareholders Continental Grain Company and DE Shaw....
...Philip Shaw, economist at Investec, said the decision would be “the least predictable for some time” and would depend chiefly on “the extent to which the MPC believes the signs of a bounce are sufficient...
...Philip Shaw, economist at Investec, said: “Our guess is that although there will not be much space for fiscal generosity, the chancellor will find some.”...
...Philip Shaw, chief economist at Investec: No....
...Greg Heckman was appointed in April after serving three months as interim chief and six months as a director brought on by activist shareholders Continental Grain company and DE Shaw....
...Bunge, Continental and DE Shaw declined to comment on Mr Schroder’s future with the company....
...Later it was joined by DE Shaw, which recently launched an activist investment strategy....
...The New York-listed company appointed Gregory Heckman acting chief executive 12 weeks after he was added to the board in a deal with two activist investors....
...This year two shareholders, the Continental Grain Company and the hedge fund DE Shaw, began to advocate for change....
...“The key message is once again that the markets are too sanguine about the outlook for interest rates,” said Ruth Gregory, senior UK economist at Capital Economics....
...The company is under a pressure from activist investors Continental Grain and DE Shaw to improve its performance....
...“The UK is the most stubborn example of a market that is not paying heed . . . to central banks,” said Philip Shaw, economist at asset manager Investec....
...Ruth Gregory, UK economist at Capital Economics, agreed....
...Philip Shaw: Only to a limited extent....
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