Leslie M. Wrona

February 24, 2024

Goldman embarks on biggest cost-cutting drive since financial crisis

...The exercise comes as the lender braces for a potential recession and another year of lacklustre M&A and capital markets activity....

January 10, 2023

FT Live

Commodities Global Summit 2025

The pre-eminent gathering of senior commodity executives, traders and financiers

Greencore Group PLC

Activist investor Oasis builds stake in sandwich maker Greencore

...Greencore chair Leslie Van de Walle said at the full-year results in November that the company retained the “ongoing flexibility” to announce fresh buybacks, relaunch the dividend, or do both....

March 15, 2024

Office of Gas & Electricity Markets

Ofgem announces new British energy cap of £1,923

...“I’m afraid prices are going to be volatile for some time to come,” Brearley said in a BBC Radio Four interview. “The price today is way higher than before the crisis....

August 25, 2023

Copper

Miner Rio Tinto to test ‘new frontiers’ as copper age dawns

...As global competition for dwindling copper resources grows more fierce, cash-rich companies, including Glencore and Newmont, have been targeting growth through aggressive M&A strategies....

August 6, 2023

US banks

Blank-cheque company aims to buy failed US banks

...“I’m an advocate for the shelf charter,” said Brian Brooks, a partner of DC law firm O’Melveny & Myers and a former acting comptroller of the currency....

March 13, 2024

FT Live

Commodities Asia Summit

Enabling decarbonisation in a time of disrupted trade flows

Commodities

Indian ban on rice exports stokes fears of global food inflation

...“I hoped we had seen peak food inflation, but I’m concerned that might not be the case.”...

July 21, 2023

InterviewFashion

Louise Trotter turns the page at French fashion house Carven

...She dressed Édith Piaf and Leslie Caron, as well as Parisian traffic wardens and Eurostar staffers, whose uniforms she designed. She died in 2015, aged 105....

March 1, 2024

The Big Read

The new gold boom: how long can it last?

...I’m reassured one day, perhaps before I die, that it will do well.”...

May 24, 2023

News in-depthJeffrey Epstein

Papers give voice to the women in Jeffrey Epstein’s sordid world

...“It’s like, I’m sure, if you go into a hookers’ brothel and see how they run their business....

January 19, 2024

Teck Resources

Teck Resources scraps restructuring vote as it faces pressure from Glencore bid

...“We have premium businesses, and when it comes to M&A, we firmly believe competition for great assets drives value . . . we’ll not engage on something that is a distraction from our mandate to create the...

April 26, 2023

Leslie Hook

Glencore’s bid for Teck Resources revives animal spirits in race for copper

...After a long period of relatively small deals, mining M&A is back. Glencore’s unsolicited offer for Teck Resources, announced on Monday, has revived the animal spirits of the resources sector....

April 4, 2023

InterviewBooks

Baillie Gifford winner John Vaillant — of wildfires and our warming world

...“I’m writing non-fiction but I’m thinking about music, the sound and timing of the language.”...

November 21, 2023

Teck Resources

Teck bullish on top investor’s backing as it battles $23bn Glencore bid

...However, Keevil said in a statement on Monday that he would be open to other M&A opportunities for Teck if it splits in two....

April 18, 2023

InterviewTeck Resources

Norman Keevil: Super shareholder blocking Glencore’s bid to create mining giant

...At the centre of this M&A saga, sits a man who is a geophysicist, miner and dealmaker, born into a mining family....

April 21, 2023

FT Live

Mining Summit

Enabling a low-carbon future

Rio Tinto PLC

Rio Tinto halves dividend after commodity prices retreat

...“What I’m seeing gives me confidence that we are on the right track,” he said....

February 22, 2023

Commodities

Profits at commodity traders hit record in 2022, say finance chiefs

...I’m talking about the energy transition, which intrinsically will trigger more volatility in a number of markets.”...

March 22, 2023

News in-depthTrafigura

Trafigura: the 10-day unravelling of an alleged $500mn fraud

...“I’m just closing terms for a large reduction,” he wrote, referring to a cut in the size of Trafigura’s nickel exposure with his companies....

February 27, 2023

ReviewFilm

I Wanna Dance With Somebody — glittery Whitney Houston biopic plays the hits

...But then again, not having read all the biographies, I’m only judging it against Kevin Macdonald’s meticulous, crisply edited documentary Whitney (2018), a much more interesting watch....

December 22, 2022

Vale SA

Vale weighs offers for stake in base metals business

...“That’s who I’m talking to,” he said. “Everybody.” Vale is also in discussions about bringing a carmaker on to its board, Bartolomeo added, without providing further details....

January 10, 2023

Rio Tinto PLC

Rio Tinto seeks deals for growth

...“That said, there is a fantastic M&A department in Rio Tinto. They had ideas. There are suggestions they had three to four years ago . . . they were very good suggestions.”...

October 21, 2022

BHP Group PLC

BHP chief pledges ‘disciplined’ M&A stance despite bulging war chest

...However, Henry said BHP would be restrained about which M&A opportunities to pursue. “OZ is a nice-to-have, it is not a must-have for BHP,” he said at the FT’s Mining Summit....

October 21, 2022

Gold

Gold groups grapple with uncertain outlook for prices and costs

...Chris Griffith, chief executive of Gold Fields, told the Financial Times his company would assess other M&A opportunities after the setback with Yamana....

November 14, 2022

Transcript

Institutional investors take to the pitch

...Specifically, I’m thinking of Europe, the major football clubs there. Sera GermanoIt’s quite different....

August 2, 2023

The Week Ahead

Biden rolls out infrastructure plan and Fed publishes stress test results

...With impeccable timing comes the film The Last Rider, which profiles Greg LeMond, a winner from a more innocent age of the Tour, and it is worth a watch, according to the FT film reviewer Leslie Felperin...

June 25, 2023

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