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...I think the extent to which, really, Putin has become the state, it's like maybe - I might be getting the French king wrong, but I think it's Louis XIV who said, l'etat c'est moi - I am the state....
...We are developing new divisions to provide services to our customer base....
...Refining capacity is to shrink c.30% by 2030, from c.1.7mbd to 1.5mbd by 2025 then to 1.2mbd by 2030....
...“L&G offers a 6.3% 2020E dividend yield, 1.2% above the sector average. Pre-2016 L&G's yield averaged 0.4% above the sector.”...
...Our forecasts assume the full £500m is invested in land in FY20, and that the benefit in the P&L is seen later 2022 but to a larger extent in FY23....
...Dixons Carphone currently trades at c.6x CY21E P/E. In non-results sellside the only thing standing out is Gulf Keystone Petroleum. It’s rated a new “buy” at Berenberg, as is Energean Oil & Gas....
...Increased focus on the home, reversing some L-T adverse trends....
...Company commentary supports our view of limited direct impact to P&C : Hannover Re: noted a potential €200m loss across P&C and L&H; Munich Re: noted a €500m loss should all the events it covers for communicable...
...Travelex had already been in the news after being floored by the Sodinokibi extortion-as-a-service ransomware on the last day of 2019. (See Computer Weekly for the best explainer)....
...This tends to be c.20% higher....
...Rogers joins from Taylor Wessing where he was a partner and head of the Financial Services Regulatory group in London. Greenhill & Co has hired four new managing directors....
...J F C Fuller did not invent the tank....
...(Private Equity International) K&L Gates’ Chicago office has hired David D Dueno as a partner in the private equity practice. He joins from private equity firm Quantum Global Group....
...First, the weight of services in our economies will continue to rise....
...Energy will remain his focus, though, including how to generate more renewable energy at a lower price and how to increase energy efficiency....
...Other remuneration committee chairmen that LGIM voted against included Pendragon, ICAP, F&C Asset Management, Millenium & Copthorne, New World Resources, Hansteen, Clarkson, Hardy Oil & Gas, Laura Ashley...
...“Le style, c’est l’homme,” say the French. In which case director Michael Winterbottom is less a man than a multitasking movie mutant, with styles as plural as his projects....
...The French fancies and cream cakes, still baked daily on the premises, are a reliable source of calories and le café au lait “c’est bon”....
...India approves 16 FDI proposals worth $207 mln India on Tuesday approved 16 foreign direct investment (FDI) proposals worth 9.24bn rupees ($207m), including financial services firm L&T Finance Holdings’...
...The companies signing the letter were: L’Oreal, Thames Water, Barilla, Nestlé, Johnson Matthey, Kingfisher, Asda, WS Atkins, Deutsche Telekom, Vodafone, DHV Group, Acciona, Allianz, SEB, F&C, Capgemini Technology...
...His target in the advertisement was a man named Billy Tauzin, a former Republican lawmaker turned lobbyist from Louisiana....
...Norway’s Petroleum Geo-Services was the biggest loser on the FTSE Eurofirst, dropping 5.2 per cent to NKr85.20 after the world’s third-largest surveyor of oil and natural-gas fields said its first-quarter...
...RIFKIND, Rt Hon Sir Malcolm (Kensington and Chelsea) Member of Advisory Board, L.E.K. Consulting LLP, 40 Grosvenor Place, London. Advisory Board meeting 4 times a year....
...During his childhood, he was thought to be the son of the Man From U.N.C.L.E. star Robert Vaughn, until a DNA test in the 1980s proved otherwise....
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