Hints and tips:
...From the UK selection, I’d pick out Bunzl, chiefly because of my colleague Oliver Ralph’s inclusion of the packaging and distribution business in his wry analysis of the “magnificently unglamorous” seven...
...Under occupation, the Nazis initially used it as a truck depot, later to exhibit propaganda....
...As I listen, I realise I’d assumed I was coming to talk to Wood about a project about to go live. But this is still only a pitch....
...There’s a lot of companies in the double-B category that were downgrades from triple-B. They’re better companies. It’s a different high-yield than, say, 10 years ago ....
...This is such a hurtful topic to her, the terrible performance of the UK market, that I don’t think she’d be able to be objective. Ethan WuI think that’s right....
...But from a risk-return point of view, is credit risk attractive right now? Rieder: I’d say it’s a B-. But it’s not a C. Why are you getting these sorts of yields in credit today?...
...And probably most people should be holding a little bit of precious metals in their portfolio. Claer Barrett Even if it’s just a smidgen. We haven’t mentioned the B-word yet. Bonds....
...“I had to check like a school teacher who was coming in when, and force people back in the office,” a second former manager says....
...I have a WhatsApp group chat, set up after a night in the pub five years ago, where friends recommend TV shows that everyone just has to see....
...I won’t mention the names of the companies, but those companies have an unofficial retirement date of 60....
...I mean can we even actually stop him? KENDALL Yes. A change of control needs a supermajority in the holding company. Mom got us that in the divorce. He’d need us on board....
...Reforms must first address what I would call supply-side challenges — in particular, how to make London a less burdensome place to raise capital and to list a company....
...“Jeremy,” she said, “I got hit by a train.” On a humid July afternoon, the sky grey and overcast, I pulled up to Sarah’s home in Camden....
...The group’s decision in April to cut 1.66mn b/d failed to halt the slide in oil prices, just as an earlier cut announced last October had failed....
...My other tactic is to write the email first, check it, then address it last. That one I learnt the hard way, after a missent email to the CEO of Pearson, then the FT’s parent company....
...Last October, less than a year after taking the design reins there, Hearst attained B Corp status for the legacy company, owned by the Switzerland-based Richemont....
...We’d like to speculate about another. Below is a chart of the net asset value of Class I Breit shares, compared to the stock market performance of a few publicly traded real estate investment trusts....
...“Before that, I’d look at a tag and I’d think, How has anyone done that with all the CCTV? Whereas nowadays, I’d knock that out at 3 o’clock in the afternoon on a Thursday....
...Not content with already disrupting so many other journeys, train drivers have now decided to stay at home on Christmas Eve and Boxing Day because they’d like more than the 8 per cent pay rise offered over...
...On April Fool’s Day this year, I got into the car — along with some dried flowers, a bentwood hatstand and various other things too fragile to entrust to the cheap removal company that was transporting the...
...That’s the risk that people default, that you’re holding the bond, the debt of a company or government or whatever that goes under. Government bonds are entirely safe from that type of risk....
...CGN has kept a 33.5 per cent stake in Hinkley C, with EDF holding the remainder....
...I spoke to a property developer and they said that they would do that because they know that they need to prepare for the future. Isabel BerwickSo it’s sort of talent holding in a way....
...“It deserves to become a public company and the beauty of it is that Kim [Kardashian] and I don’t have to decide that right now.”...
...This week’s election watch (should I make this a new permanent section?)...
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