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...Shares in Leslie’s have plunged more than 40 per cent in the past week after the country’s biggest seller of swimming pool supplies and hot tubs cited increasingly price-sensitive customers as a factor dragging...
...Smart reads Over the weekend, our colleagues Leslie Hook and Henry Sanderson did an extensive piece on how the shift to renewables could change global politics. Make sure to check it out....
...The team of around a dozen X staff had to build a fresh data set of fish to train its algorithms, initially by filming in a paddling pool at its Silicon Valley headquarters....
...Leslie Wexner, the octogenarian parent company’s chief executive, may be a retail legend but he has lost his touch, Lex writes....
...As a company, Uber must balance its need to maintain a large pool of potential drivers with the paramount importance of safety....
...Xchange Leasing opened in 2015, drawing on a $1bn credit facility as Uber sought to widen its pool of drivers, who can also rent cars from the company....
...“You can talk to drivers and you’ll hear them say things like, I just drove a bunch of Uber pools for two hours, I probably picked up 30-40 people and I have no idea where I went....
...Sign-up bonuses attract new drivers and maintain a sufficient driver pool, while more specific bonuses for certain times and places help steer drivers to places of high demand....
...Internet company executives and their corporate political action committees, which pool individual contributions in accord with the federal prohibition on direct corporate political spending, also gave Hillary...
...The DoJ’s frenetic pace was on display last week in the office of Leslie Caldwell, assistant attorney-general for the criminal division....
...By opening up its self-driving test fleet to real passengers this week, Uber has capitalised on one of the great strengths of its autonomous programme: a ready pool of riders who are prepared to hop in an...
...Overall the fee pool from advising companies on mergers and capital raising has topped $60bn so far this year, according to Dealogic, down from $65.8bn at the same point last year....
...When Santander Consumer USA sold a $1bn pool of subprime auto-loans this week, it made no pretence that the loans would be paid back in full....
...It’s been quite a year for Wal-Mart de México, the US retailer’s Mexican arm....
...The pool of renminbi held abroad has grown very quickly since then, especially in Hong Kong, and daily trading volume in the offshore spot market has reached about $3bn....
...As the familiar signage of Japan Inc slipped by (Yoshinoya, 7-11, Curry House CoCo, Lawson, Doutor, Family Mart, Mos Burger, Yoshinoya, 7-11, and so on) I resisted the urge to tap away at my phone....
...Additional reporting by Leslie Hook....
...But Chinese government-owned companies have access to deep pool of funds, either through soft loans from state banks or via the involvement of China Investment Corp, the country’s sovereign wealth fund....
..."In times of economic stress, borrowers with the means pay off their card debts, leaving behind a pool of borrowers with less financial flexibility and more debt," said Will Black, Moody's managing director...
...Either because they are cheap and all-encompassing (Wal-Mart) or offer superior service and convenience....
...Wal-Mart has sold Y100bn ($929m) of Samurai bonds, in the largest issue by a non-financial company this year, adding to the increasing number of foreign companies tapping the Japanese market’s large pool...
...The FDIC could entice buyers to step in by limiting their downside risk on specific pools to troubled mortgages....
...With access to a wider pool of customers, it also reduces their dependency on market-dominant clients. “Companies like Wal-Mart, these big-size buyers, killed a lot of SME buyers,” says Mr Ma....
...Either way, Mr Ivell has handed John Leslie, the former chief financial officer now elevated to chief executive, an unenviable task at the worst possible moment....
...Now the foundation has set up state-level funding pools to make gifts of $25,000 or more. It has also hired programme officers to assess opportunities and the effectiveness of its grants....
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