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...Hidden threat B. Riley Financial is under fire for funding a buyout linked to a firm that prosecutors call a fraud, The Wall Street Journal writes....
...Ratcliffe is keen to buy just enough of the Glazers’ B shares — which aren’t publicly traded and carry 10 times the voting rights of A shares — to take control....
...“It will follow a similar model to B&M,” he added, referring to the discount retailer that Leahy chaired for five years after CD&R acquired a majority stake in it in 2012....
...The owners of UK supermarket group Asda, brothers Mohsin and Zuber Issa and private equity group TDR Capital, have made an initial non-binding bid but it is not clear whether they will now make a formal...
...Cheating is (a) bad, (b) very bad, or (c) even worse when you’re in the business of holding other companies accountable....
...Asda will also introduce more concessions to its supermarkets after initial trials with DIY chain B&Q and toy retailer, The Entertainer, although it has denied it plans to sell clothing label George....
...Sports Direct, Very Group, Next and B&M have all sold and leased back distribution centres over the past 18 months. Asda’s board will initially have six members....
...Still, credit rating agencies rank Asda below investment-grade: it carries a double-B rating, putting it in the upper echelons of the junk bond market....
...Observers predicted they would form more partnerships with other retailers to make better use of space in Asda’s stores, pointing to a recent trial in which DIY group B&Q will open four shops in Asda supermarkets...
...Her champion here, Pamela B. Green, constructs a spry detective story....
...Mazen Issa at TD Securities reckons the demand shock remains overpowering for the oil market: “The oft-cited proposal between the US, Russia and Opec could see 4m-5m b/d worth of cuts, representing a 10...
...Emboldened by his success in ramping up crude production from about 200,000 barrels a day to just over 1m b/d, his target is to increase output to 2m b/d with a $60bn five-year investment plan....
...Darrell Issa of California, a Republican House lawmaker, recently broke ranks to call for a special prosecutor to investigate President Donald Trump’s Russia links....
...German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she had no “Plan B” for solving the refugee crisis and insisted there was nothing that would make her change course during an interview on Sunday....
...Oil production in Yemen peaked at 457,000 b/d in 2002 according to the UK’s BP, and reached a low of 180,000 b/d in 2012....
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