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...According to a survey of fund managers from Bank of America this month, just 10 per cent expected a V-shaped recovery, while 75 per cent anticipated a U- or W-shaped one....
...When the Iran-Contra story finally broke late in 1986, Powell had been in Germany for less than six months, now with three stars and in command of the 75,000 strong V corps, having skipped the normal intermediary...
...Others are more sceptical, with their forecasts ranging from a Nike-style “swoosh”, essentially a more drawn-out ‘v’, to a ‘U’, with a longer trough in activity, to an ‘L’ – essentially a punt on growth...
...“I don’t think it’s a V-recovery,” he says. “An elongated U is perfectly possible. I’m a conservative. I plan for the worst and hope for better....
...“I can’t imagine a complete V-shaped recovery, and it will be more like going back and forth at the bottom of a U-shaped recovery,” Mr Kakiuchi said....
...“I would say that, as a team, we've pretty well discounted a uniform V-shaped recovery. The question is, is it U-shaped, is it W-shaped or parts of it L-shaped?”...
...Many forecasters are now talking about a more dire scenario, involving nothing better than a U-shaped cyclical pattern....
...DD’s Indap v NYU’s Damodaran: Is stock compensation good or bad?...
...(FT) Warren v Wall Street? Elizabeth Warren is one of the country’s most prominent critics of Wall Street firms and big banks....
...On May 3, 2018, the Company and its subsidiary Tesla Motors Netherlands B.V. entered into the Ninth Amendment (the “Ninth Amendment”) to the Credit Agreement....
...held in an entity called Turing Pharmaceuticals; (c) the album “Once Upon a Time in Shaolin” by the Wu Tang Clan, as well as any proceeds derived from the sale of such album; (d) the album “The Carter V”...
...At London Stock Exchange, however, chief executive Xavier Rolet is saying C U L8R and thanks 4 the near-merger....
...The FT’s Henny Sender reports that China Investment Corp has also hired Blackstone to manage Logicor’s portfolio of warehouses and logistics properties, according to people briefed on the matter....
...” or “U-shaped”....
...“You can’t put Grand Theft Auto V on an iPhone, it’s not the same experience. People were thinking about them like software companies when they should look at them like television and movies.”...
...If outsourcing had taken the DVLA up a dead-end street, it was time to execute a swift U-turn....
...To tackle this, the ONR is aiming to develop a system of advanced sensors and computers that will fit into any military rotary aircraft, including the V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft, and make it completely...
...As a result, the wave of consolidations that has enhanced productivity, encouraged innovation, and stimulated dynamism in the U.S. economy may notably decline.” Sure....
...This week Nintendo’s former leader died, Electronic Arts has a new chief executive and Grand Theft Auto V has set a new sales record....
...Energy Future Holdings Corp., previously called TXU Corp., is lining up loans to keep two subsidiaries operating during bankruptcy proceedings after months of talks have failed to produce an agreement with...
...Additional reporting by Patrick Jenkins...
...(Bloomberg) Sinopec issues jumbo $3.5bn bond, Asia’s biggest in a decade: “The offering pushed the value of bonds issued this year in Asia, excluding Japan, in either U.S. dollars, euros or yen to US$59.91...
...From the FT: Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, the Saudi investor whose interests range from the Hotel George V in Paris to a stake in Twitter, announced on Monday that he had “severed ties” with the Forbes billionaires...
...week for Britain’s banks, culminating on Thursday with the publication of the results of a long-running capital adequacy assessment by supervisors at the Prudential Regulation Authority, writes Patrick Jenkins...
...(Financial Times) BofA looks to play catch-up in Asia corporate banking: “Bank of America Corp (will seek more lending and cash management business with companies in Asia and elsewhere outside its U.S....
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