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...That’s a mis-step. Time is not on Vodafone’s side. True, Iliad’s bid was far from a knockout....
...Crédit Agricole’s position could have a ripple effect on other smaller foreign bank lenders, which were also on the fence about re-extending credit lines to the group, the people added....
...Excluding the contribution from newly acquired SA Greetings (completed in April 2023), partnership sales were up by 23.5 per cent to £4.2mn....
...For some, the prospect of increased government influence has stirred memories of past mis-steps that caused considerable financial damage....
...It also operates wind and solar assets, thermoelectric plants and transmission lines....
...If the polls are right and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva returns to power in Brazil this October, Latin America’s six biggest economies will for the first time all be governed by the left....
...Even as restrictions on restaurants lifted, its top line increased two-fifths in the six months ending in September....
...Another mis-step by Johnson — or further damaging revelations about the parties scandal — could propel that total to the 54 letters required to trigger such a vote....
...A study by industry association Sa-Dhan found that around 90 per cent of microfinance lenders extended the moratorium to customers....
...Santander UK has been accused of trying to reduce the amount it pays out to victims of PPI mis-selling by cutting professional claims management companies out of its communications with customers....
...These factors along with the residual impact of litigation [related to the mis-selling of payment protection insurance] have recently damped the bank’s profitability.”...
...Mr Arora said it had been profitable for four out of the past five years but had “taken some mis-steps” in the past 12 months....
...The company, which posted net earnings of €171m in 2016 but did not distribute dividends to the Carmignac family, says its management fees are in line with the sector average....
...Leonardo da Vinci did a two-way staircase in the Vatican.”...
...He accused the Iraq Telecom shareholders of “grossly misrepresenting and mis-characterising facts”....
...Ms Siqueira says government spending on income transfers, through pensions and other welfare schemes, at 23 per cent of GDP, is also in line with the OECD average....
...Compounding the uncertainty is that Mr Lula da Silva is facing jail after being convicted of corruption and losing both of his appeals so far....
...Overall, BNP revenues decreased 4.4 per cent to €10.8bn, below expectations, but net income was in line with forecasts at €1.6bn....
...“The sale of Eletrobras goes in line within the liberal agenda the government is trying to push through....
...The figures, published on Wednesday, provide a snapshot of continued customer ire, even as British banks are trying to draw a line under costly mis-selling scandals....
...The 110 sq m space is divided into areas dedicated to the brand’s different watch families, which range from classic models such as the Portofino and Da Vinci to the signature Pilot and Portugieser lines...
...Oi was regarded as one of Brazil’s “national champions” when it was formed eight years ago from a merger partially funded by the state under leftwing former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva....
...Cheaper lines of credit available to emerging markets corporates over the past decade have facilitated this voracious spending spree....
...As Brazil’s sweeping corruption investigation reaches the top levels of government, threatening to divide the country down traditional class and racial lines, the rule of law will be put to the test like...
...muses Mr da Cruz. “There’s no landing at all.”...
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