Hints and tips:
...Jefferies has lured former Barclays banker Sam Dean out of retirement to become vice-chair of investment banking in London, per Bloomberg....
...For its part, broker Jefferies forecasts a higher proportion of affordable home sales in the second half, and for average price rises of just 0.9 per cent for the full 2021 calendar year....
...Brad Bechtel at Jefferies highlights how the Aussie dollar . . . “ . . . has leverage to the China-US deal and it has a slowly improving domestic situation and a lot of monetary policy support....
...the group’s profitability will remain lower than capital consumption, we believe that another equity increase is now more likely this year.”Panmure Gordon ● Sanne tumbled on the surprise retirement of Dean...
...Dean Foods, the biggest US dairy group, dropped as much as 12 per cent after its fourth-quarter earnings came in at the bottom of previous guidance and set lower than expected targets for 2018....
...In March, the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority fined a Jefferies banker £37,198 for sharing confidential information on WhatsApp — the first action of its kind....
...Anthony Codling, an equity analyst at Jefferies, argued the declines may present opportunities....
...“Singapore is really well-positioned to compete with Hong Kong,” says Glenn Hubbard, dean of Columbia Business School....
...That deal, part-financed by New York investment bank Jefferies, signalled what he describes as a comeback after two years out of the business....
...“Chen is not behaving like an interim chief executive, in our view, and is dramatically altering the company,” said Peter Misek of Jefferies....
...The status quo is not guaranteed Here are three charts put together by William Keep, Dean of the business school at the College of New Jersey, and an expert on direct selling....
...Dean Cashman, a Singapore-based director at Eastspring Investments, the Asian asset management arm of Prudential, has seen 14 prime ministers come and go since the early 1990s....
...The writer is dean of Melbourne Business School...
...Maintaining a buy recommendation on valuation grounds, Jefferies analyst John Dean said: “Given current economic uncertainties, the forthcoming interim management statement cannot itself offer much reassurance...
...Tech news from around the web: US broker Jefferies & Co says it believes Apple is about to launch a new video-focused cloud-based service, International Business Times reports....
...John Dean, analyst at Jefferies, argues that Weir shares could still have further to run....
...John Dean, industrial goods analyst at broker Jefferies, agrees that the dangers to IP protection and quality control put a natural brake on moving to full-blooded “white label” manufacturing for many higher-end...
...A rebound in automotive, off-road, steel-milling, aerospace and other manufacturing customers has also helped sustain confidence, says John Dean, analyst at Jefferies....
...“It is not hard to understand why,” said Dean Maki, chief US economist at Barclays Capital....
...John Dean, analyst at Jefferies, described the update as encouraging but suggested the company would be vulnerable to any slowdown in global economic activity....
...Meanwhile, John Dean, an analyst at Jefferies, agrees that there remain “legitimate concerns about the sustainability of growth” after strong progress and relatively easy comparables of 2009....
...And John Dean, analyst at Jefferies, argues that punters betting on achieving high takeout premiums on a wave of M&A deal could be disappointed – as acquisition activity goes the other way....
...“The starts and permits data offer encouragement that the worst of the housing downturn is over,” said Thomas Simons, market economist at Jefferies....
...Commodity markets put in a broadly strong showing, with the Reuters-Jefferies CRB index, a global benchmark for prices, reaching a one-month high....
...The Reuters-Jefferies CRB index, which measures a basket of commodities, rose 1 per cent....
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