Hints and tips:
...The largely debt-funded acquisition closed earlier this year, becoming a prime example of how the use of buildings is changing....
...Bronwyn Curtis, chair at JPMorgan Asian Investment Trust: No....
...Dowley is a non-executive director at Melrose Industries and Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust....
...PJT, Antakly and Morgan Stanley declined to comment....
...Good morning New York, FT ALPHAVILLE No, the Comex is not going to default: There’s a stupid rumour going around in the gold community that the Comex is “bleeding” inventory (especially from the JP Morgan...
...Supposedly ultrasecure mortgage bonds that had traded freely earlier in 2007 had by late July hardly been trading at all....
...As for the SCP itself, that had sprung into being in 2007 with credit derivatives based on mortgage securities (ABX and TABX)....
...Sainsbury closed up 10.1 per cent at 342½p — its sharpest one-day gain since February 2007, when a private equity consortium said they were looking at a bid....
...It was – and remains – largely the J P Morgan name, balance sheet, support system, and reputation that made the money, not the employee....
...resonate over the remainder of the decade: HSBC’s $16bn acquisition of Household International, the US’s biggest subprime mortgage lender....
...En route to the boardroom, Nooyi spearheaded the acquisition of Tropicana and the merger with Quaker Oats....
...Combined, the 500 companies in the S&P 500 index in January 2008 repurchased $120bn in 2003 and $597bn in 2007; in 2007 repurchases represented 90 per cent of their net income, while dividends were another...
...Either way, conversion into a real estate investment trust looks a distant prospect, they said....
...The “Parties” shall mean ZANU-PF, the two MDC formations led by Morgan Tsvangirai and Arthur Mutambara respectively....
...A drop of 70% for the S+P is absolutely possible....
...J Sainsbury gained 2.1 per cent to 373p after the sale of stock by one of the Sainsbury family trusts....
...Other companies facing the chop are Northern Rock, Tate & Lyle, up 3.8 per cent at 422p, DSG International, off 0.8 per cent at 119.8p, and Daily Mail & General Trust, down 0.9 per cent at 586½p....
...The rumours helped Morrison shares close 1.5 per cent higher at 300½p and J Sainsbury gain 1.1 per cent to 583½p....
...The S&P steel index fell 4.9 per cent, trimming its gain in 2007 to 27.9 per cent as consolidation talk cooled....
...John P....
...However, they said an offer for Hammerson from Vornado Realty Trust, a US Reit, could not be ruled out, nor could a move from the Morgan Stanley Real Estate Fund....
...Analysts at Morgan Stanley suggested that mining stocks Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton could increase their buyback plans....
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