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...Investors will be wanting signs that the braai could be in earnest now. alan.livsey@ft.com...
...But in oil at least, bankers, lawyers and investors said it is a case of if, not when, a dealmaking flurry kicks off in earnest....
...Apollo will now begin its due diligence in earnest and may water down or improve its terms subsequently....
...And you look at when the hiking cycle started, we’re now at the point where you’d really expect the effects of the hikes to kick in earnest,” said de Pass at Citadel Securities....
...“At COP27, we must do so, in earnest.”...
...But Andrew Wade, an analyst at house broker Jefferies, said the company’s guidance of flat first-half revenue would now be “a stretch” and that he was cutting his full-year forecasts by about 9 per cent....
...More certainty about the course of the pandemic and the introduction of a vaccine would be needed before such a change took hold in earnest, she added....
...“Markets remain in a very vulnerable state and the selling has resumed in earnest. It's about risk reduction and raising cash,” said Brad Bechtel, strategist at Jefferies....
...He added that Brexit would need to be fully resolved for customer confidence to return in earnest....
...Quick Hits — What’s on the markets radar Campaigning for the UK general election has begun in earnest....
...Discussions between the two began in earnest not long after Mr Bompard took over at Carrefour....
...Also, heightened uncertainty is likely to persist as negotiations on a future trade deal begin in earnest....
...As Marchel Alexandrovich at Jefferies International points out, few UK politicians have laid out “a coherent vision for what the post-Brexit economic future will look like”....
...“Until the country’s debt problems are fully resolved it will remain shut out from the wider financial system,” said David Owen, chief European financial economist at Jefferies....
...Lending Club and Jefferies declined to comment. Deloitte did not return a request for comment....
...But with a new refinancing cycle set to kick off in earnest in 2018, Moody’s has warned the guidelines could make it more difficult to refinance the $90bn of loans due in that year alone....
...Jefferies expects a 5 per cent decrease in adjusted operating profit over the period, a measure that strips out costs associated with transforming the business and pensions....
...David Owen, chief European financial economist, Jefferies GDP growth likely to slow from around 2% on average in 2016 to 1.25% in 2017....
...In the past year, the long-predicted shakeout in the investment banking sector has begun in earnest....
...Such assessments probably began in greater earnest after some money market funds showed signs of strain as they struggled with rapidly depreciating or illiquid SIVs....
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