Hints and tips:
...“A partial sale and this low price won’t help the [company’s] massive debt load and shows just how desperate LB has become to try to unload VS,” they wrote in a note on Thursday....
...Discovery’s shows veer toward reality fare like TLC’s My 600-lb Life, Discovery Channel’s Deadliest Catch and Investigation Discovery’s Homicide Hunter....
...Sir Andrew Likierman, dean of LBS, said AQR would not determine the research. “The institute depends for its credibility on its independence,” he said....
...“In our view the company needs to get back to basics and focus on getting the existing operation to 600k lbs per annum in the least dilutive fashion to equity holders,” said Canaccord Genuity....
...Yet the LBS team found that a strategy of investing in the 20 per cent of UK stocks with the worst performance in the previous 12 months would have turned £1 invested in 1900 into £49 by 2009, while investing...
...LB: what about other companies, Zabeel for example? And what happens after Dubai World and Dubai Holding? MS: Zabeel is very small. But this is a process....
...In spite of the picture created by a simplistic review of the numbers furnished by the LBS team, Prof Dimson, BGI Professor of investment management at LBS, says: “I’m quite cautious about this....
...Sachsen LB suffered a failed conduit last year causing it to be sold to Landesbank Baden-Württemberg (LBBW). And Bayern LB also needed support to cover subprime losses....
...Problems in commercial paper have already lead to rescue packages for so-called conduits run by IKB and LB Sachsen, the German banks, as well as leading to difficulties for listed investment vehicles such...
...At Insead it was accountancy; at London Business School (LBS), management consultancy; and at the Cass school at City University, a career banker, who more recently moved into the civil service, has been...
...LBS found 30 per cent of the commercials were time-shifted. Adjusting for TV sets without recorders, about 80 per cent of ads were viewed live....
...This is likely to rise to 21.2m lb this year and reach 30m lb by 2010 following the opening of new mines in 2007 at Cigar Lake in Canada and Inkai in Kazakhstan....
...But the 7,000 lb bronze giant, long associated with red-blooded capitalism, is up for sale with a minimum price tag of $5m....
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