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...The group held €964mn in debt by the end of 2022....
...The case, Brown et al. vs USA Taekwondo et al., deals with sexual abuse suffered by three young former Olympic hopefuls in taekwondo, whose coach was convicted and sent to prison in 2015....
...Other FTSE 100 companies with a US focus — Ashtead, Prudential and Pearson et al — will be monitoring Ferguson’s drip-by-drip progress carefully....
...IAG, easyJet, Ryanair et al are no Flybes. But the International Air Transport Association has declared that without state aid, Europe’s airlines could be bust by May....
...We write in response to James E Hansen et al’s letter (“EU must include nuclear power in its list of sustainable sources”, December 17), which mistakenly advocates nuclear energy to address climate change...
...Burford got out of its funding arrangement with Donziger et al after it had already put up $4m. “Chevron” had been part of its portfolio....
...A UBS report says the exposure of Intu et al to retailing is worse than suggested by the companies or feared by investors....
...Investment Management Limited ERAFP Ethos Foundation Fidelity International Handelsbanken Asset Managment Hermes Equity Ownership Services HSBC Global Asset Management Ltd....
...This is exactly what Fisher et al called for in the 1930s. This full separation is an unlikely scenario....
...It is tempting to hear echoes of Judaean politics — as imagined by Messers Chapman, Cleese, Idle, Jones, Palin, et al — in the proliferation of UK financial services bodies....
...China wants to lead in tech, so having two players chasing the market caps of Facebook et al is a plus....
...“We think it’s likely now that Elliott et al will try to take them to court to force the issue,” he added....
...I’d set up and capitalise a European debt management agency to create ESBies (the European safe bonds of Brunnermeier et al). I’d set up a eurozone growth capital fund for fast-growing companies....
...Deleveraging will be the story, just not quite yet as the same speed as Rio Tinto, Fortescue Metals, Newcrest Mining et al.”...
...The South African business recently took over Gulf-based group Al Noor. Food wholesaler Booker has raised sales 10.6 per cent in the 12 weeks to March 25....
...Read Jonathan Guthrie’s Lombard columns on ft.com....
...A cynic might see the recent reverse takeover of Al Noor, a London-listed private hospitals group, by Stellenbosch-based rival Mediclinic as another attempt to escape interventionism....
...“Whatever the call on Saudi Aramco, we will meet it,” Mr Nasser said, in some of the first comments since a government reshuffle at the weekend removed veteran oil minister Ali al-Naimi....
...Instead, the houses will go to a group once known as “the deserving poor”. Or humanities graduates, as they are known today....
...Maybe we will discover that many managers were smart enough to sell out of Apple, Valeant, Williams et al before their shares tanked....
...Implicitly, Baillie chief Andrew Telfer gave Enoc boss Saif Al Falasi the cold shoulder when he sought support for his company’s second attempt to buy out minorities....
...Mujtaba Rahman, Eurasia Group Euro area policymakers should focus on three priorities in 2016:1....
...Gerald Corbett, pugilistic chairman of the sports gambling group, repelled a lowball bid from CVC 18 months ago....
...● Lombard Odier has named Nancy Everett as senior adviser for its US-based business, a newly created post....
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