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Number of deals in sector hits highest level in a decade despite wider M&A slowdown
...“Everything I’m hearing is that they will kick-start private sector investment much more proactively than the Tories were able to do,” he added....
...And I’m hopeful that will remain.”...
...“I’m not saying don’t do the big projects but it’s not the only way,” he said, pointing to the need for decentralised energy systems such as solar and wind farms for the electricity grid network....
...I’m sorry if we caused any confusion,” he said. Thames Water executives were summoned to explain the structure of the £515mn fundraising as a convertible loan charging 8 per cent....
...“I’m a great believer in this period, now it can be recontextualised to be seen as a time of serious artistic progress in design.”...
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...I saw one figure — Gill will tell me if I’m wrong — like £72bn taken out of all the water companies. You know, so the point is the government got played at its own market game. Gill PlimmerYes....
...Maybe I’ll just pack myself to the gills with leftovers, switch off the telly to give it a chance to cool down and sleep until the asparagus comes in....
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...I’m Ethan Wu. Thanks for listening. Alexandra Scaggs So they’re willing to pay the brokers for that....
...Jaising declines to speculate on the numbers because “I’m not an astrologer”, she says....
...Your reporter, Gill Plimmer, rightly points to the highly layered corporate structures of so-called “UK” water companies, and their dealings being outside the scope of Ofwat supervision (Report, May 9)....
...I was reading an old collection of essays by the food writer A A Gill and came across a 1998 piece on pomegranates for Tatler. “Recipes for them are few and far between,” he wrote....
...I’m taking a turn in the DT chair while Darren continues a well-deserved end-of-year break....
...while writing my column, for reasons that will, I’m sure, become apparent if you read it....
...“I’m worried because we have so many anti-Tory candidates, the vote will be split,” she tells Liberal Democrat politicians who knocked at her door....
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...I’m too addicted to life.” This is a glib use of “addicted” given the context, but it made me wonder whether writing about his life is a compulsion for Morrison....
...Bankers forage for fees in an M&A desert A prolonged slump in mergers and acquisitions is hitting bankers where it hurts: their pockets.Fees earned by investment banks for advising on M&A dropped to their...
...There’s a reason Cardi B’s song “Wap” — “He got some money, then that’s where I’m headed/Pussy A-1, just like his credit” — opens the film....
...Are there other solutions, because that is extremely unlikely and I’m actually not aware that there’s any political party proposing that? Gill Plimmer I think you’re right....
...[MUSIC PLAYING] Ethan Wu I’m Ethan Wu, in for Michela Tindera. I’m a financial reporter here at the FT, and I host our Unhedged podcast....
...“While the projected dividend yield hasn’t been declared, I anticipate that investors will be attracted to this more as a dividend play, as meaningful growth only looks possible through M&A.”...
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