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...Former insiders called the company a “Potemkin village”. Four days later Lasry resigned....
...He is also co-owner of the Milwaukee Bucks NBA basketball team....
...Standard & Poor’s has downgraded the long-term credit rating of Weir, the industrial valve and pumpmaker that has suffered from the commodities slump, one notch to ‘BBB’ from ‘BBB+’, reports Michael Pooler...
...Ultimately the strategic impetus of the SABMiller deal is not simply to sell more in Des Moines or Milwaukee — but in Kolkata, Hanoi and Guangdong....
...Research from Cowen and Company, the US brokerage, shows the sector is highly fragmented; no single company has more than 5 per cent of the market....
...Media rights around professional and collegiate sports are soaring in value as cable companies battle to keep consumers’ attention with premium content....
...When something goes wrong – a pump fails or a valve breaks down – it can be turned into “something that tells you why”....
...Last month, Journal Communications, which publishes local titles in the US such as the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, announced plans to merge with E.W....
...“Great companies are bought not sold,” he told the Financial Times in an interview....
...“The challenge you’ve got is there are already existing supply chains for these designs,” says Keith Cochrane, chief executive of Weir Group, which supplies various types of valves to civil nuclear installations...
...While major oil service companies such as Halliburton prefer to make their own pumps and operate a vertically integrated business model, Weir is keen to target its growing portfolio of pumps and valves directly...
...Advanced Micro , a semiconductor manufacturer, which supplies personal computer companies, fell 13.7 per cent to $5.31 after the California-based company reduced its forecast for quarterly revenue and gross...
...oil services company....
...The company still faces some uncertainty relating to ownership....
...Weir Group, which makes valves and pumps for the oil, mining and power industries, has won a $15m (£9.4m) contract to supply parts for the first US nuclear plant to be built in 25 years....
...Some frequent past winners, including the Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune lost out to publications including The Seattle Times and the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, while the cartooning...
...David Rothkopf is a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and is chief executive of Garten Rothkopf, LLC...
...Outfits such as Milwaukee’s Baird, RBC Wealth Management of Minneapolis, and Philadelphia’s Janney Montgomery Scott had record recruiting years fattened by wirehouse hires, with Baird in particular taking...
...The Securities and Exchange Commission and leading US equity exchanges on Monday laid the ground for the creation of an industry-wide safety valve designed to temporarily halt trading in stocks, in response...
...Valves are typically 8-12 per cent of a total project’s costs, and the annual global valve industry is worth about $18.5bn, according to the company....
...In recent weeks, US banking regulators have been pushing aggressively for the creation of a safety valve, in the form of a clearing mechanism, for OTC credit default swaps – financial instruments at the...
...As late as last week, energy company Hess was offering capacity across many of its facilities....
...If valued in the $4bn range, the new company would represent more than a third of Marshall & Ilsley’s $11.7bn market capitalisation....
...At the headquarters of Miller Brewing Company in Milwaukee, 60 or so buildings have sprung up around a site where Frederick Miller first brewed the company’s amber-coloured ale in 1855....
...The hundreds of newspapers, television stations and other “free media” offer a “relief valve” for the Iraqi public to debate the issues of their burgeoning democracy, Rumsfeld said....
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