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...Zuber and Mohsin Issa, the Blackburn-based brothers who part-own the EG petrol station group and UK supermarket chain Asda, were also interested in Boots but had not submitted a final bid....
...Big exposure to energy and financials suggest the UK dividend base looks especially vulnerable. Income investors should currently favour utilities, telecoms and health care.”...
...With its ultra-low costs and the benefit of lower fuel prices, we expect Wizz to return to robust double-digit margins in the next financial year....
...The V-shaped recovery in consumer spending feels too bullish in our view....
...AstraZeneca Plc has made a preliminary approach to rival drugmaker Gilead Sciences Inc. about a potential merger, according to people familiar with the matter, in what would be the biggest health-care deal...
...Local authorities will have to bid for the finance when their focus is on social care rather than on project proposals....
...John Cecil (possibly second left) of Kallo Inc, an American healthtech thing that has had some dealings in Ghana....
...WPP will also reduce is planned capex from £400m to v£300m....
...Patagonia v Donald Trump Late last year visitors to Patagonia’s website were greeted by a black page which stated “The President Stole Your Land.”...
...Otherwise we could not pay for all those tall buildings in financial districts....
...An on-demand dog-walking and pup care service called Wag raised $300m in cash courtesy of the $93bn SoftBank Vision Fund....
...Investors should take due care. Hubris often ends in tears. Just ask equity investors in banks in the run-up to the financial crisis whose share prices have yet to recover (most never will)....
...Max Schrems, the Austrian student who leads the privacy campaign “Europe v Facebook”, tweeted triumphantly on Tuesday: “The game is on!”...
...Among the many tradeoffs emphasised by economists are guns v butter, public v private, efficiency v equity, quality v quantity or cost and short-term v long-term performance....
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College My guess is he will be too timorous to do the right thing....
...Without care, an unhelpful jigsaw piece that prolonged the 1930s depression but was largely absent from 2008-09 — retaliatory trade protectionism — might just come crashing into place....
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College A fall in migration would have very negative effects on the public finances and growth....
...The economic implications of a ‘soft exit’ (eg remaining in the EEA) could be very different to a ‘hard exit’ (eg being no more part of the EU than the US is)....
...Executives “must be bright enough” to do the job, as John Mervyn-Smith, chief psychologist at UK-based talent consultancy eg. 1, observes....
...Most of today’s virtual money schemes don’t care about values at all. To the contrary: they care only about making a small portion of people rich quickly....
..., will awaken unpleasant memories for the Financial Times’ parent company, Pearson PLC....
...(Reuters) - Steve Cohen fan doesn’t care about any of this insider trading probe business. (Reuters) - SAP wants programmers with autism....
...You may wish to explore general management programmes v specialising....
...The new Basel III capital adequacy rules are supposed to take care of the problem of dodgy categories of core capital....
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