Hints and tips:
...It is expected to publish fuller figures next week, with PwC following next month and KPMG later in the year....
...Nuveen bought European debt manager Arcmont last year, while T Rowe Price purchased Oak Hill for $4.2bn in late 2021....
...But I’m probably being too idealistic about that. 26. Is “oaked” a description of flavour or method? It’s a method. The wine has been exposed to oak, whether it’s barrel, oak chips or oak staves....
...Analysts at Mirabaud Securities were bullish on Embracer until 2020, but have since pointed to the company’s “M&A warpath” strategy and consequent “spiralling complexity”....
...Peat, just like grapes or oak, exhibits regional variation....
...The company demerged its UK business, M&G, last October, leaving it with operations in the US and Asia, and a head office in London. Since then it has hinted at more changes....
...As well as a freeze on beer duty, McClarkin wants the government to cancel VAT payments due at the end of this month. Some major brewers, including Fuller’s, have cancelled rent for its tenanted pubs....
...Tangy and obviously oak-aged. Savoury....
...cooper, in French, on exactly where to put each of the giant Slavonian oak vats, called botti, in which her wines are aged for up to three years before bottling....
...Regardless, it would do well to offer a fuller explanation of the arrangement. Until then Elliott will write this damaging narrative solo. Email the Lex team at lex@ft.com...
...“We wanted to preserve the hotel’s DNA,” Christian Boyens, the hotel’s general manager, told me over tea at the new Salon Proust, an oak-panelled space off the main corridor named after the French writer...
...This is another relatively dark, full-bodied blend, fermented in new oak in this case but not at all oaky-tasting....
...First Reserve, along with Riverstone and Warburg Pincus, were pioneers of oil investment....
...“Riverstone sees the North Sea at a very interesting stage in its evolution,” Mr Wright said....
...It’s not the drink, really, but I’m afraid I’m going to have to sit down....
...At 100 sq m, the wraparound terrace was as big as the room itself, its view a sublime panorama of ultramarine Aegean, the islands of Spetses and Spetsopoula and the myth-rich mountains of Arkhadia beyond...
...I’m trying to get at something so simple and transparent that it’s got to a position when you can’t subdivide it again.”...
...The bodybuilder formerly known as the “Austrian oak” says the series has broad international appeal – hence the trip to Cannes. “I’m a big believer in reaching out to the whole world,” he explains....
...Dresser is majority owned by funds managed by Riverstone Holdings LLC and First Reserve Corp. GE said the acquisition should contribute to its earnings next year....
...The back is engraved “Thanks, M.J.” and the watch is expected to realise up to $12,000....
...“I’m frustrated at the public valuation, and I couldn’t tell you how much longer I can sit by,” he told analysts....
...David Brooks, head of M&A at Grant Thornton, said: “There will be more partial exits, where private equity can take some cash off the table to pay down debt and give an early return to their investors, without...
...I know: I’m one of them....
...Gleaming oak flooring and carved oak panels from the 1600s give this room an imposing feel....
...But he declined to comment further, saying that the company would give a fuller update at its preliminary results on May 24....
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