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...Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ), the C$400bn global investment group, told my colleague Josephine Cumbo that the UK stood out because of its “pro business” stance....
...(FT) Coaching v commanding Andrew Hill recounts how industrial group Linde won over sceptical staff in 2017 with a safety drive based on “active listening”....
...AT&T, America’s largest telecoms group, agreed to buy Time Warner, the owner of Warner Brothers, HBO and CNN, for $85.4bn at the end of 2016....
...But while newspapers are increasingly taking their lead from BuzzFeed et al, and their mastery of content distribution via platforms such as Facebook, the digital upstarts are shifting focus to a distinctly...
...Facebook et al may not need the intellectual capital, but they sure needed their cash....
...Abe et al are keen on ending deflation — but they are going to hinder that push with a fiscal tightening. No tension there, then....
...Again, it was all a bit vague in the courtroom, but one idea seemed to be giving NML et al whatever the backlog of 11 years of payments was, and then paying them at the EBG rate thereafter....
...Either the sovereigns that matter will, after many years of austerity, restore solvency or there will be orderly restructuring of Italy, Spain et. al. in addition to Greece, Portugal and Ireland....
...Abrahamson et al find evidence that “strategic pricing” (implicit collusion) is as strong as ever in the US IPO market....
...Messrs Cable, Darling et al say they don’t care! They should. Moving key staff (100 or so) plus capital is relatively inexpensive....
...As for Japan’s deteriorating economic climate – not to mention the downwards direction of the Nikkei average – the situation may well become “more difficult” and Sugiyama et al may have to change their minds...
...*Hedge Fund Activism, Corporate Governance, and Firm Performance (2006), Brav et al...
...As a former investment banker, Augar tells the story of the disaster in the financial markets. What really happened at Northern Rock, Royal Bank of Scotland et al? This gives you a clearer idea....
...The leverage game is over for the foreseeable future and not just because regulators will tell Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley et al to go easy on the debt as a quid pro quo for borrowing from the Federal...
...The towering Crowell-Collier Publishing building, vacated in 1956, will next year mark its half centenary of steady dilapidation in the centre of the city....
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