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...Thoma Bravo has been quiet on its reasons for cutting bait....
...Big Tech and brick bait, pathways to prosperity If a modern tech company constructed the equivalent of Bournville, a village built by the chocolate company Cadbury for its workers in 19th-century Britain...
...Laudable aims to create “cross-company podcasts”, involving journalists from multiple publishers....
...Take Bait, for example, a relaxed fishing simulator with cartoony graphics that is available on both headsets....
...Energy companies, which had helped underpin gains in the US, were higher with the S&P/ASX energy index closing up 0.6 per cent in Sydney....
...Mr de Chanville pointed to the example of Kingfisher, owner of B&Q....
...This is how high-tax companies have performed, relative to low-tax companies, since election day: Many questions, detailed by Sam Fleming for the FT, remain to be answered....
...Hopes of increased cash returns gave Kingfisher its biggest gain in a month on Friday. Kingfisher rose 2 per cent to 426.4p, helped by a recommendation from Bernstein Research....
...Shares in Kingfisher, the home improvement retailer, were up more than 2.4 per cent in London at 374p after the British Retail Consortium’s figures on general retail sales in January rose 3.9 per cent year-on-year...
...O’Brien & Associates LLC, the largest independent futures broker in the U.S., and a director of the Futures Industry Association....
...Related links: The great diversification bait and switch – FT Alphaville China mobile games, fit to burst – Beyond Brics Private equity funds fail to make the grade for Yale endowment – FT...
...There are also films termed “Oscar bait”, deemed to have a better chance of an award simply because of their subject matter: these include movies about disability (Rain Man, My Left Foot, Forrest Gump),...
...Silver Bait LLC produces fishing worms by the millions. But that’s only the beginning of what it produces....
...Kingfisher was the sharpest blue-chip faller, down 2.6 per cent to 227p ahead of its full-year results on Thursday....
...of Whyte & Mackay, the Scottish whisky maker, in May 2007, and for the lossmaking Kingfisher Airlines....
...The market is dominated by the domestic Kingfisher beer of Vijay Mallya’s United Breweries Group....
...Kingfisher was down 1.3 per cent to 138.1p as Collins Stewart recommended selling in advance of the B&Q owner’s trading update next week....
...But Kingfisher fell 3 per cent to 133.7p after recent gains. Matthew McEachran, analyst at Kaupthing, said the fall could continue ahead of an update expected from the B&Q owner next month....
...Rival Kingfisher faded 4.3 per cent to 118.9p. Game Group fell 3.2 per cent to 265¼p as Investec restarted coverage of the retailer with “sell” advice....
...Nick Bubb, an analyst at Pali International, said the company should consider using part of the cash to bolster its business in Spain....
...Kingfisher, the former parent group of Kesa, attempted to dispose of BUT in 2002 but called off the auction....
...He believes expanding sales in India will help his company hit a target of $1bn in annual retail sales by 2010, up from $194m today....
...The company’s CDS were flat this morning, however, at about 145bp....
...Kingfisher, the retailer for hobbyist home improvers, also remained in focus, with its cost of protection rising another 3bp to about 71bp....
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