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...Hopefully now Iger can take Disney back to its roots: sticky, crowded theme parks and training children to annoy parents until they buy high-margin merch....
...Eight, apparently: [WE Soda] has engaged J.P. Morgan Securities plc (which conducts its UK investment banking activities as J.P. Morgan Cazenove) (“J.P....
...Disney: Bob Iger needs to dream up better ideas than spending more money on theme parks, says our Lex investment column....
...Last year, General Atlantic bought Tripp Smith’s credit firm Iron Park as it decided to push into debt-based investments....
...Alliance Pharma, M&C Saatchi and YouGov all fall in this zone. But it’s not only about individual companies....
...She describes her upcoming show at Yorkshire Sculpture Park as her most revealing yet....
...The brand has restored forests and national parks in Italy, commissioned public art and helped launch a social cooperative to improve the prospects of young people. fondazionezegna.org...
...A total of 51 large retailers filed for bankruptcy in the US in 2020 — a decade high, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence....
...The research park’s own website says Alder is “a research laboratory focused on mycelium”....
...C Coaching After Wimbledon, the men’s tour will trial allowing coaching during matches....
...“There are no equivalent 100 per cent mortgages in the standard market,” says David Hollingworth of UK mortgage broker L&C....
...“One of them has to be the sense that hourly workers and others can’t be secure about their futures, while the C-suite is doing extremely well.”...
...P&G’s shares have sharply outperformed Unilever during that period. “Activist investors will look at P&G and say: Is there a similar thing to be done at Unilever?”...
...and beauty brand The Honest Company and UK ecommerce group THG have all listed in the past 18 months, and all are trading at least 50 per cent below their listing prices, despite a steady rise in the S&P...
...Late on Thursday, S&P Global Ratings downgraded Evergrande for the second time in weeks to triple C minus, deeper into speculative grade, and said that the developer’s liquidity position was “eroding more...
...Fitch on Wednesday became the latest group to issue a warning, slashing Evergrande’s foreign currency credit rating from triple C plus to double C and saying that a default of some kind “appears probable...
...Fantasia was last week downgraded to triple C by S&P, which noted “heightened execution risk on repayment” in relation to the bond due on Monday....
...(Since then, the two have been referred to inside the company as “Bob I” and “Bob C”.) Mayer had been kept in the dark....
...But the overall combined ratio for the P&C business — claims and expenses as a proportion of income — came in at 95.2 per cent, a 1.3 percentage point year-on-year improvement....
...They illustrate their argument by comparing the paths to success of the richest people in Mexico and the USA (p. 39)....
...S&P Global, one of the big three rating agencies, considers triple C issuers to be “vulnerable”, and dependent on “favourable” conditions to keep paying their debts....
...It’s also one of the only places to still enjoy p’tcha (jellied calves’ feet), but interested parties should call in advance to confirm availability....
...By the time J.P. Morgan bought his first Gutenberg Bible in 1897 — another two would follow — the double life of books was already established, cherished for their ideas and as rare artefacts....
...Welsh, London; VW Durham, Cumbria, England; Rowan McKittrick, London Polymath 1,062: Susan J Tzotzos, Austria Crossword 16,401: David Jeffrey, Edinburgh; Michael Capparis, New York; J Morton, Glasgow...
...Peter Shaw, who owns medical equipment supplier C&P Medical, said he had been relying on a shipment of safety needles now caught in Calais to build up essential government-mandated medical stockpiles ahead...
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