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...SoftBank founder predicts WeWork V for Victory Masayoshi Son admitted today he had turned a “blind eye” to governance lapses at WeWork but promised a “sharp V-shaped recovery” for the shared offices provider...
...Xerox said it would take its proposal for a $33bn takeover of HP directly to the personal computer maker’s shareholders, Nasdaq’s listings business is on course to eclipse that of bitter rival the New York...
...HP on Thursday rejected Xerox’s latest takeover approach and advised its shareholders not to tender their stock to Xerox....
...Xerox wants to give HP’s board its walking papers We’re all guilty of overusing the David v Goliath trope but in the case of Xerox and HP, it really does apply....
...While owning 6 per cent of Xerox common stock, Mr Deason also happens to be a Xerox creditor....
...The calendar continued to build on Thursday, with at least eight investment-grade companies, including Continental Airlines, Xerox Corp and Consolidated Edison, pricing more than $6bn of deals....
...“The V-shaped recovery in corporate profits seems to be at an end,” warned Barry Knapp, chief US equity strategist at Barclays Capital....
...“Things can change pretty quickly,” said David Joyce, the managing director of media equity research at Miller Tabak....
...And here’s the I-don’t-care-about-watching-Ghana v Uruguay version (emphasis FT Alphaville’s): The Miller-Moore provision, which was included in the House bill last year, never made it into the Senate version...
...“The cutback in capital spending will come back very quickly – it will be a classic ‘V’,” predicts Andrew Bartels, head of research at Forrester....
...After training at University Hospital, London, he worked as a surgeon at Miller General Hospital, Greenwich, where many of his patients were victims of the Nazi V-1 flying bombs....
...Carlson v Xerox was a class-action lawsuit on behalf of shareholders holding stock between 1998 and 2002....
...Take Xerox, where one-third of the management team are women and where Anne Mulcahy recently handed over to Ursula Burns, the first black woman to lead a Fortune 500 company....
...Donald Trump was on hand to unveil Cadillac's new XLR-V model, with 440 horsepower. By next year, General Motors will have seven convertibles in its product line-up....
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