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...He replaces Kevin Lansberry, who took over from longtime finance chief Christine McCarthy on an interim basis in June....
...In the past, director Kevin Macdonald (Touching the Void, State of Play) has made UK movies with and without public funding....
...Additional reporting by David Oakley...
...Outsiders who could be available to lead Debenhams include Alistair McGeorge, the former chairman of New Look, Mike Shearwood, who recently left Karen Millen and Kevin O’Byrne, the former Kingfisher executive...
...David Oakley is the FT’s investment correspondent...
...Kevin Smithen, analyst at Macquarie Securities, said: “$130bn is a high price as the US wireless market will deteriorate in 2014 and beyond.”...
...Kevin O’Rouke, who runs political and business risk company Reformasi Information Services, says the Bakries’ style of investing, often through complex strings of highly-leveraged companies, has been well...
...Another major sponsor Oakley sunglasses said it was reviewing its deal with Mr Armstrong....
...As Gilt Groupe chief Kevin Ryan said in a recent interview with the FT, many also-ran Groupon clones will be gobbled up or left to fade away as the market consolidates....
...Reporting by David Oakley and Tom Burgis in London, Stanley Pignal in Brussels, Simon Rabinovitch in Beijing, Kevin Brown in Singapore, Guy Dinmore in Rome, Kerin Hope in Athens, Anthony Deutsch in Jakarta...
...Matthew Oakley, Policy Exchange: The labour market has continued to surprise in 2013....
...Kevin Daly, Goldman Sachs: We do not think that house prices are overvalued....
...Ren-Mar Studios, where I Love Lucy was filmed, was sold last year to the entrepreneur behind Oakley sunglasses....
...Kevin Daly, Goldman Sachs: We expect the UK economy to grow by +1.4% next year....
...Kevin Daly, Goldman Sachs: We think the threshold for formally changing the remit is high. But there remains significant scope for a more active approach within the existing remit....
...Matthew Oakley, Policy Exchange: The Chancellor has no option but to stick with ‘Plan A’ in 2013....
...Matthew Oakley, Policy Exchange: The credit crunch has played a major part in the UK’s weak growth since 2010. But this did not need to be the case....
...Additional reporting by Robin Wigglesworth in Manama, Kevin Brown in Singapore and David Oakley in London...
...Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 index was down 0.1 per cent in the midst of a leadership transition after Kevin Rudd, prime minister, was defeated in a vote by his Labour party....
...Kevin Mountain, an index-linked bond trader at JP Morgan, adds: “Our view is that there is room for the UK Debt Management Office [DMO] to sell more index-linked gilts.”...
...“Credit derivatives are more liquid than the cash bond market and any time there is stress in the financial system, the CDX becomes driven by technical factors,” said Kevin Cronin, portfolio manager at Putnam...
...Kevin Adams, director of fixed income at Henderson Global Investors, said: “A 0.5 per cent yield is not much of a return, but pension fund trustees still want to invest in index-linked bonds because they...
...Kevin Murphy, managing director for investment grade corporates at Putnam Investments, said: “The topic du jour is Fannie and Freddie....
...Additional reporting by David Oakley in London...
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