Hints and tips:
...AstraZeneca’s M&A team probably has an entire alphabet of deal codenames on the go at the moment. In that context, was serious contact made to Gilead? Yeah, probably....
...WPP will also reduce is planned capex from £400m to v£300m....
...Last year was exceptional for Europe Inc in terms of growth, profitability and business expectations....
...More provocatively, Goldman aside, what if Vista had the correct share count for their analysis (e.g....
...Dattaraj V. Salgaocar (V. M. Salgaocar Group) Harsh Pati Singhania (J.K. Organisation) Krishen Sud (Sivik Global Healthcare, Inc.)...
...It sounds like something Wile E. Coyote might attempt to clobber Road Runner with. Or perhaps some device from Dr Seuss....
...It took them less than a weekend to gain access to HBGary Federal’s e-mails....
...She noted a defense exhibit that showed the fund managers were working at 4 a.m....
...Much debate in the blogosphere on Thursday about “Pimco versus Barclays” – or rather, “Bill Gross v Tim Bond” following the FT’s publication of a distinctly bullish piece by Tim Bond, head of asset allocation...
...I’d say the George V for sheer over-the-topness and people-watching, lunch at Noura, a treat from Goyard and dinner at Ferdi....
...“I’m seeing a much more positive attitude in the companies I’m talking to,” says Stuart Sharp, a small cap manager at Rensburg Fund Management....
...“For the same price or less I’m able to have the joys of a 41m Foster superyacht … Four to five weeks a year on a boat is, frankly, enough.”...
...The kind of thing you see in Marie Claire magazine’s Spree v Steal feature....
...In September four models appeared at the end of Betsey Johnson’s New York women’s wear show stripped down to not much more than their briefs, with boards hung on their backs spelling out V-O-T-E....
...I’m currently having difficulties with cash flow....
...People have asked why I haven’t changed the name of the company from two surnames of other people to Moneypenny Inc since acquiring a majority stake. Are they mad?...
...E is for entertainment. The Lynx Pulse campaign for Lever Faberge set out to “compete head on with Big Brother, Pop Idol and I’m A Celebrity”....
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