Hints and tips:
...Over at Ozy Media, which billed itself as a media company at the forefront of “the New and the Next”, founder Carlos Watson was arrested at a hotel last week on fraud charges....
...Aon and Willis Towers Watson in July abandoned a $30bn tie-up that would have created the world’s biggest insurance broker....
...stocks that acts as a proxy fractional share — though clearly investors will need to pay an ongoing charge for the privilege — something they don’t need to do when owning the standard equity share,” said James...
...This time it’s the British Indian girl who is Holmes, and the white boy Watson....
...amount it reimburses for prescriptions, when its retail business was already under pressure from cheaper rivals including supermarkets, discount stores and Superdrug, the chain backed by Li Ka-shing’s AS Watson...
...James Watson, an analyst at Rabobank, said it was obvious that the big beer companies would want a slice of the growth....
...Boots’ beauty business has been under attack from traditional rivals — supermarkets, discount stores and direct competitors such as Superdrug, which is backed by Li Ka-shing’s AS Watson retail business....
...To which Mr James retorted: “He’s never said no to me yet.”...
...In response to the sector’s changing dynamics, Walgreens appointed former Dixons Carphone boss Seb James as chief executive in late 2018....
...Before James Daunt arrived as chief executive, Waterstones received £27m a year for such business....
...The evening I visit the Three Compasses, a slim young man, James, tells me he had resisted Game of Thrones for years but finally crumbled last season....
...About $88bn has been invested in ILS, up from $24bn in 2011, according to Willis Towers Watson Securities....
...said Mr Pitt-Watson....
...When Towers Watson announced its $18bn combination with Willis in 2015, the exchange ratio implied a value on Towers Watson’s shares below their trading price....
...Tom Watson, Labour’s deputy leader and a Murdoch critic, said the CMA and communications regulators should still “exercise all of their powers of scrutiny” on any bid by Disney “to ensure that Sky continues...
...On Thursday, James Murdoch, the media mogul’s son who is also chief executive of Fox and chairman of Sky, told TV executives in Cambridge that approving the deal would be an “affirmation” of the claim that...
...Labour’s Tom Watson, the shadow culture minister, claimed that the government was still planning to approve the takeover. “Nothing about this decision is a surprise. It’s the old playbook,” he said....
...Instead, Ofcom will carry out its own “fit and proper” review of Sky and its chairman James Murdoch, which will be conducted at the same time as the public interest inquiries on plurality and standards....
...James Murdoch, Mr Murdoch’s son and a former CEO of Sky, returned to Sky as chairman in April....
...“Volumes are good, but they’re not tremendous,” said Brennan Hawken, analyst at UBS....
...The graph below shows the latest Fulcrum estimates of trend inflation in the two regions, adjusted for all seasonal factors and smoothed using the Stock and Watson method....
...Miliband and other opponents of the new offer, such as deputy Labour leader Tom Watson, have also voiced concerns that the sale would threaten media plurality: in other words, it would concentrate ownership...
...The tally has since edged down to “slightly below 30 per cent,” according to James Watson, head of emerging Europe financial institutions at Fitch, after the agency returned a number of Russian banks to...
...Last month it was announced that organisations including Alder Hey Chilren’s Hospital in Liverpool and Dentons, a law firm, planned to use IBM’s Watson technology....
...John Watson, chief executive of Chevron, said last month it was “a terrible market to be trying to sell most assets”....
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