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...“Alibaba is their only liquid asset, they don’t have any other large liquid assets,” said Atul Goyal, an analyst at Jefferies....
...“Today’s data raises odds of more stimulus measures from China over the coming weeks,” said Mohit Kumar, chief Europe financial economist at Jefferies....
...“We have taken a writedown on it now as the timeline and budget have been extended,” said Anglo’s chief executive Duncan Wanblad....
...Jefferies has hired senior Bank of America software investment banker Ron Eliasek, per Reuters....
...Maro is sharp about a miserable stay, many years ago, with Duncan Grant at Charleston: “It was so cold, so uncomfortable, no hot water, no heating in the bedroom, a dreadful weekend.”...
...Assets held in large-cap value ETFs have grown a brisk 4.3 per cent year-to-date, but that has recently slowed to a trickle, according to Jefferies data....
...SRS’s prime brokers include Nomura, Jefferies and UBS....
...Struggling to keep pace with demand, founders Molly Goddard and Joel Jeffery have had a chance to double down on their guiding principle of celebrating life at home....
...Yet on Jefferies’ forecasts the stock trades at 19 times 2022 earnings, a 70 per cent premium to history....
...This disconnect shows that something has gone awry,” says Duncan Lamont, head of research and analytics at Schroders....
...Ratchford, Belgium Crossword 16,146: Lela Lee, Denver; Ian Bird, Vienna; Tim Locke, Sussex Polymath 1,018: Robert Edwards, Devon Crossword 16,141: Bill Stewart, Leicester; Gareth Christopher, Switzerland; Duncan...
...Duncan Cooper, chief financial officer, said in an interview that the company had suffered from the uncertainty surrounding Brexit in the run-up to the previous deadline for leaving the EU of October 31....
...Duncan Painter, CEO of Ascential, commented: “We are excited to be expanding our partnership with Coca-Cola, one of the world’s major brands....
...“It could be in anticipation that the dividend payout ratio falls,” said Phil Dobbin, financials analyst at Jefferies....
...The President is Missing has been garlanded with praise from other thriller writers such as Jeffery Deaver and Lee Child....
...Analysts Jefferies estimates that this cost Tencent Rmb2bn of quarterly revenues in the second quarter and will also hit its second-half numbers....
...Overall, China spends an estimated $150bn a year on tech-related parts and goods from US companies, said Edison Lee, analyst at Jefferies....
...Robbie Duncan, analyst at Numis, said the fall in sterling following Brexit has made assets more attractive to overseas buyers....
...Robert Duncan, analyst at Numis Securities, noted that a 2007 buyback programme by British Land had also failed to achieve a lasting effect on the share price....
...“Alibaba is evolving into a big data conglomerate,” enthused Jessie Guo, analyst at Jefferies, and one of the many who attended the group’s two-day investor conference in Hangzhou this month....
...The jobs figures from March were “almost certainly negatively affected by the weather,” said Thomas Simons, senior money market economist at Jefferies....
...“There are not many markets where you have comparable competitors going at it, hammer and tong,” said David Reynolds, an analyst at Jefferies, who covers companies such as Just Eat and US peer GrubHub....
...Those effects have been slower to hit in the UK and Europe, but Robert Duncan, analyst at Numis Securities, says landlords should be concerned....
...Mike Prew, analyst at Jefferies, said that while the two assets were very different, both were affected by “negative pricing trends”....
...“In the listed sector, levels of leverage then were about 45 per cent — today they are in the mid-20s to 30 per cent,” said Robert Duncan, analyst at Numis Securities....
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