Hints and tips:
...Sure, a CCC-rated PIK bond looks better than a defaulted bond in your portfolio. But, as S&P puts it when explaining why U.S....
...The IEA forecasts crude consumption to increase by 1.3mn barrels per day this year while Opec this week maintained its growth estimates of 2.25mn b/d for 2024....
...A change of control needs a supermajority in the holding company. Mom got us that in the divorce. He’d need us on board....
...The organic growth decline is similar to 2009 but we assume a more muted margin impact of 200 b.p’s vs 300 b.p.s’ – this reflects WPP has anticipated the slowdown & the likely availability of some Government...
...“I’d say to our designer: make the B on the headphones bigger,” Iovine recalls. “And he’d say, ‘I don’t know . . . it’s too big.’ We are competing with headphones but we’re also competing with Nike....
...Meanwhile, the company’s R&D as a percentage of sales, which has been falling since 2001, is creeping ever lower....
...in violation of sections 23A and 23B of the Federal Reserve Act, 12 U.S.C. §§371c & 371c-1, made applicable to state nonmember insured institutions by section 18(j)(1) of the Act, 12 U.S.C. §1828(j)(1),...
...One option is to maintain a strong oppositional stance. The U.S....
...The new links will more than double the total pipeline capacity bypassing the strait to 6.5m barrels per day, or about 40 per cent of the 17m b/d that transits Hormuz....
...FT Alphaville’s ironicometer exploded over the weekend as (A) S&P cited political risk as a reason for the downgrade, (B) Washington, especially the Administration, aggressively moaned about that rationale...
...In 2010 it pumped an average of 1.85m barrels a day, but so far this year it has managed just 1.65m b/d....
...One of those “fully-collateralized transaction[s] in a bankruptcy-remote structure”!...
...Before the start of the civil war, Libya produced about 1.6m barrels a day of high quality, low sulphur crude oil, but the six-month long conflict has reduced the flow to a trickle of just 50,000 b/d, according...
...It wasn’t just S&P, as Fitch took Korea from AA- down to B- (twelve notches) over the course of one month in 1997, including a six notch move on December 23 1997....
...the borrowing binge of 2005-2008, b) the desire for a safety cushion during uncertain times, c) the fact that as much as a quarter of the cash is located offshore and won’t be repatriated soon, and d...
...Began with a “B”). We’d dropped acid and had sex three or four times with Radiohead’s Kid A on shuffle-repeat....
...The majority of the top US MBA programmes offer scholarships and loans to both their international and U.S. students....
...Crude prices fell early on after buyers of Opec oil said they had been informed of cuts amounting to a total of 575,000 barrels a day – less than half the 1.2m b/d proposed by Opec....
...They will find four simple bewares: (a) of high-priced acquisitions; (b) of cheap credit; (c) of market boundaries defined by history; (d) of business models scripted by regulators....
...From the interactive TV version of Honda’s “Power of Dreams” campaign, 10,368 people requested a test drive, ordered a DVD or watched a longer version of the commercial. U is for under as in wraps....
...Shaw, Chairman and CEO, D.E. Shaw Co. Stanley S. Shuman, Managing Director, Allen Co....
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