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...It’s a highly engaged, super niche audience,” said Bennett Jordan, a managing director at Whitney and former contestant on reality show The Bachelorette who is Medina’s partner in Litney....
...Companies that already process junked cars were well positioned to play a role in handling batteries, said Jefferies analyst Bret Jordan....
...Jordan Sadler, senior vice-president of investor relations at Digital Realty, said for infrastructure companies looking for higher returns in the new environment, “there’s only one way to move: you have...
...News round-up Bahamian authorities were tipped off by top Bankman-Fried associate (FT) Rio Tinto reluctantly hunts for deals as mining industry consolidates (FT) Jefferies cuts dealmaker bonuses by 25...
...Jordan Rochester, a foreign exchange strategist at Nomura, says upward pressures on energy, food and services prices will mean the headline European inflation rate will remain uncomfortably high next year...
...And to truly beat the virus, people will need to be immunised in every corner of the world, noted Bill Marko, managing director at Jefferies....
...“The dollar is the best house in a bad neighbourhood,” says Brad Bechtel, global head of FX for Jefferies....
...Some charts via Credit Suisse: “Given the May meeting is quite far away after that they might have to do another inter-meeting cut if in April things turn sour in mkts,” says Nomura’s Jordan Rochester:...
...Justin Jordan, analyst with Jefferies in London, said: “Given the strategic value of Smurfit Kappa and potential synergies with existing International Paper operations, we believe an offer of €33 a share...
...Even so, Justin Jordan, analyst at Jefferies, said that like its peers DS Smith is enjoying a “triple tailwind” of increased industrial production, growth in ecommerce and higher consumer spending....
...Best of the rest Adapt or die: a new breed of trade union can save the fossils of old — John Harris in the Guardian Jordan Peterson and fascist mysticism — Pankaj Mishra in the New York Review of Books...
...“Delays to US corporate tax cuts and possible $1tn of infrastructure spend has led to an Ashtead pullback,” said Justin Jordan, analyst at Jefferies, but argued that the correction provided an attractive...
...Jefferies downgraded AstraZeneca’s rating from “buy” to “hold”, which resulted in its shares slipping 1.2 per cent to £47.38....
...Credit Suisse has hired Antonia Rowan away from Jefferies as a senior managing director in its UK Advisory and Corporate broking team....
...Everyone is trying to use less and lighter packaging,” said Justin Jordan of Jefferies. “If it’s disruptive, it will become ubiquitous quickly.”...
...It is now renewing expansion plans and looking beyond its home territory as the luxury homes market falters there; it also operates in north Africa, Jordan, Lebanon, Qatar and Saudi Arabia....
...Justin Jordan, analyst at Jefferies, said: “We view the proposed GCS acquisition as a strategically sensible accretive deal, increasing RPC European market share from 5 per cent to 6 per cent.”...
...James Vane-Tempest, analyst at Jefferies, said strong US growth was “offsetting a disappointing performance in the Middle East and North Africa”....
...Jefferies, which holds a buy rating on the stock, raised its target price to 320p from 310p....
...Primark’s like-for-like sales were up 8 per cent in the 16 weeks to June 21, compared with the same third quarter last year, according to estimates by analysts at Jefferies, though this included the retailer...
...“The shared office space market is in its infancy and will only benefit from an improved macroeconomic picture,” said Justin Jordan, analyst at Jefferies....
...Last week 19 non-government organisations from Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan and Palestine called on Arab nations and the European Union to stop dealing with G4S....
...Analysts scrambled to downgrade their forecasts, with Justin Jordan at Jefferies cutting his underlying pre-tax profit expectations 16 per cent to £29.9m for the 12 months to the end of March 2013....
...Justin Jordan, analyst at Jefferies, said any new deal might be on better terms because of PriceGrabber’s improved recent performance....
...Justin Jordan, an analyst at Jefferies, said: “We acknowledge US construction activity is unlikely to stage a dramatic recovery in calendar 2012, but we believe the Ashtead investment case is underpinned...
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