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...is interested in buying a stake in Euroclear, in a deal that would value one of the world’s largest securities depositories at up to £5bn.It has resisted moves by rivals to go public or diversify into a rainbow...
...The consortium, which has the backing of the Church of England, will pay £600m upfront for the portfolio, codenamed Rainbow, in exchange for an anchor shareholding when the new UK retail bank is floated,...
...Related reading: Rio Tinto: Guinea pressure still on, beyondbrics Zambia cracks down on miners over tax, FT South Africa: A faded rainbow, FT...
...Lennar Corp and KB Home, two other US homebuilders, have also reported big jumps in order backlog in quarterly earnings....
...Mr Golden is a partner at Revolution LLC, an investment group, and Mr Wilson heads up the Graduate Management Admissions Council, a not-for-profit education association....
...DR Horton and KB Home rallied 5.6 per cent to $13.92 and 4.1 per cent to $21.16, respectively....
...The company, which had backing from prominent investment firms Thomas H. Lee and Putnam Investments, said the sub-prime market had been “crippled”....
...KB Home, one of this year’s star performers on the stock market, fell 1 per cent to $75.00 after Credit Suisse First Boston reduced the homebuilder from “neutral” to “underperform”....
...Yet the business has managed to acquire just 26,000 customers since then while requiring a heavy investment to purchase, among other things, five new satellites....
...Shinsei said on Thursday that LTCB Investment LLC, Ripplewood Holdings Special Interest LP, PaineWebber Capital, KB Japan and 92 others plan to offer a part of the shares they receive to the public....
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