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...A renewed auction is heating up and KKR is among the bidders for Simon & Schuster, the 99-year-old publisher that is home to best-selling writers such as Colleen Hoover and Stephen King....
...By comparison, Tesla’s standard range Model S achieves 3.2 miles....
...S&P took Tesla off credit watch after the $1.4bn capital raising earlier this year....
...The tech-heavy Nasdaq and the wider S&P 500 both declined in the same period....
...Carving the PC and printer businesses as HP Inc out of HP’s enterprise IT operations will split a group valued at about $50bn into two almost identically sized companies....
...The company said same-store sales at Burger King in the US and Canada climbed 6.9 per cent in the first quarter. Overall, same-store sales at Burger King rose 4.6 per cent in the first quarter....
...(FT) Markets Data 05:32 BST Asian markets Nikkei 225 down -397.27 (-1.98%) at 19,662 Topix down -35.12 (-2.16%) at 1,592 Hang Seng down -264.05 (-0.93%) at 28,136 US markets S&P 500: -0.37% at 2,107 DJIA...
...McDonald’s shares fell 2 per cent to $91.09 while rival Burger King declined 1 per cent to $31.85 and Yum slipped less than 1 per cent to $72.07....
...vw-profiting-from-early-bets-on-ems/ Luxury cars in China: overdrive Despite a slowdown in the economy, and the odd jitter about China-focused luxury brands, there is at least one area where the charts are all point up: premium autos...
...sense now vanishing rapidly in Columbus 22.21: Jamie Chisholm, the FT’s global markets commentator, is the earliest of the early birds, sending us this update on US stock futures from pre-dawn London: “S&...
...The four US wirehouse brokerages seem a brave bunch, still smarting from 2008’s market bust but nonetheless dismissing their fast-growing independent rivals....
...Auto white balance, face detection, HD video recording now at full 1080p resolution....
...King Ryan is anointed. “ …uh, not, matey! It’s Staffa, yeah? So what’s the score? Screw You or Better Luck Next Time?...
...Mervyn King, governor of the Bank of England, said the eurozone “appears to have stalled”....
...At September’s Frankfurt auto show, where nearly all the big carmakers showed forthcoming plug-in models, Musk was sanguine about the growing competition....
...However, Sheryl King, an economist at Merrill Lynch, fears “it is a one-quarter wonder”....
...“With the exceptions of the autos and housing, there’s a lot of cash flow and a lot of capability in the industrial sector outside of the funds provided by financials.”...
...Chairman Ben S....
...Then there are Indy and Champ Car, both so-called “open wheel” series with greater speed and more international drivers, where precision is king....
...The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed up 0.1 per cent at 10,545.01, while the broader S&P 500 rose 0.2 per cent to 1,220.52....
...The wider S&P 500 fell 11.96 points, or 1 per cent, to 1,178.14 while the Nasdaq Composite lost 14.3 points, or 0.7 per cent, at 2,056....
...Delphi the largest auto supplier in the US, said before the bell that the company would consider filing for bankruptcy....
...The S&P 500 was down 0.3 per cent to 1,223.13....
...S&P responded by putting ArvinMeritor's rating deeper into junk territory, citing high steel prices and weak orders from GM and Ford, its two biggest customers....
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