Hints and tips:
Related Special Reports
...ISS’s position centres on a long-standing and controversial practice in Germany’s two-tier governance system: the fact that top executives often join a company’s supervisory board at the end of their operational...
...Long-term holders of SoftBank stock in the US, Japan and UK say they continue to wrestle with a realistic valuation of Arm, which SoftBank bought for £24.3bn in 2016....
...That was Leo Lewis and Kana Inagaki here in the Tokyo bureau of the FT, joining me for this discussion of Japan....
...Investors took the comment as a signal that the central bank’s long awaited “normalisation” of policy after eight years of negative interest rates and yield curve control, would not unleash the sort of interest...
...When Herbert, supported by his second wife, Philippa Hooper (née King), steered it to a sale to the Bank of Butterfield for £51.5mn in 2004, the FT wrote of “the end of an era”....
...And of course at the beginning of deflation in Japan, nobody thought it would last for such a long time....
...Nikkei Inc, which calculates and publishes the index, owns the Financial Times....
...Glass Lewis, a rival proxy adviser, also questioned some of the bonus awards and said the ratio of the chief’s remuneration to that of the average Stellantis employee had increased....
...Fellow proxy adviser Glass Lewis also highlighted Botín’s pay rise as a concern in its report seen by the FT, but backed the overall package because of the bank’s strong results....
...The Japanese economy entered a long period of stagnation during the 2000s, when the economy grew on average only 0.7 per cent....
...“Everybody has been dying for it for so long”, Campbell said this week, of the Lions’ success. “The environment [at Ford Field] is better than any you’re going to find in the NFL....
...“The remaining business is then one with higher margins and with clear long-term structural drivers, where the potential for more deals now looks higher,” he said....
...The new shareholders, however, saw it as a value play, and that was a long source of mistrust and conflict,” said one adviser to the company....
...The decade-long effort to build a product that competes with the likes of Tesla and Rivian has never been officially confirmed by Apple, and a spokesman for the company declined to comment....
...Cruise, the self-driving car subsidiary of General Motors, targeted annual revenues of $1bn by 2025. Last year, the business reported sales of just $102mn amid a $3.4bn loss....
...“track record of driving long-term value”....
...But in January 2019, Apple cut a fifth of the 200 staff working on the project. In 2021, Field was poached by Ford....
...The weak yen is one big support, as is the emergence of long-dormant inflation, which is giving companies greater power to lift prices....
...Half of those, around 1.5mn vehicles, were “full-sized” pick-ups, such as the Ford F-150 or Chevrolet’s Silverado, the market where the Cybertruck will compete....
...China has a long history of unexplained detentions of senior business people and officials....
...The US group, for so long the dominant force in golf, has lost some of the biggest draws in the sport, from Phil Mickelson to Cameron Smith....
...how long they remain logged out of the app, how frequently they work and what jobs they accept and reject — any of these variables could feed into their wage calculation....
...“How long will the rest of the world tolerate massive imports from China, and will Chinese companies come under pressure to relocate production overseas?”...
...At the mid-level, a cashmere style in a muted shade from Sheep Inc, John Smedley or — my favourite — Begg x Co will quickly become a staple of your wardrobe....
...Designers at Ford use them to test new car shapes, instead of making mock-ups using clay....
International Edition