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...As Jean-Christophe Babin, Bulgari’s group CEO, told me: “Place Vendôme is the high-jewellery centre of Paris, and therefore of the world!”...
...Business A group of Europe’s leading football clubs, stung by steep drops in revenue during the pandemic, is planning to set up a breakaway Super League....
...Ashish Gupta, head of Indian equity research at Credit Suisse, said India’s rising caseload ruled out a V-shaped rebound....
...Industry group Iata’s latest prediction is for a 48 per cent fall in traffic this year. Weakened economic confidence means a V-shaped recovery looks unlikely....
...The ERC analysed figures of company dissolutions and incorporations using the FAME database maintained by Bureau van Dijk, an arm of Moody’s rating agency....
...Rate relief drops away in FY22 so the recovery profile, in EPS at least, is not V-shaped....
...We see Centrica's balance sheet credit metrics as tight, with FY20-22 FFO/ND below Moody's Baa2 30% threshold whilst it scrapes through on RCF/ND....
...However, despite the new model, we expect group sales to decline this year and the group to book a significant operating loss....
...She continued to photograph, taking landscapes and moody skyscapes, blurred, sweeping images washed with colour. She photographed her friends’ children....
...Separately, Moody’s Investors Service downgraded Ford’s credit rating to junk....
...Underscoring the division in the market is the wide range of ratings the major agencies offered on the bonds, which are as low as Caa1 from Moody’s and as high as double-B minus from Fitch....
...The meat business is cyclical, said John Rogers, analyst at Moody’s. “The nutrition business is much more stable and much less cyclical,” he said....
...In 2020, Accor Hotel Group is due to open the 150-bed, four-star Le Meztiva in town, while the French Sezz group, best known for its swanky five-star hotel in St Tropez, plans to open L’Hôtel Le Comte Capré...
...Charlie O’Shea, analyst at Moody’s, said the deal was a “transformative transaction, not just for food retail, but for retail in general”....
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...In the news Moody’s shifts to negative outlook on China Moody’s has warned it may downgrade China’s sovereign rating, a sign of increasing investor concern over the country’s rising debt and dwindling foreign...
...We believe that the pass through will be quick enough, but not total (sharp increase but to a lower max level than others believe) Kathrin Muehlbronner, sovereign risk group, Moody’s Investor’s Service...
...Kathrin Muehlbronner, sovereign risk group, Moody’s Investor’s Service Ltd Whatever the final Brexit deal, the UK will remain part of the EU next year and hence will have very limited leeway to control...
...Kathrin Muehlbronner, sovereign risk group, Moody’s Investor’s Service Ltd In our view, he will need to use the headroom, because we expect the economy to be weaker than the Office for Budget Responsibility...
...Kathrin Muehlbronner, sovereign risk group, Moody’s Investor’s Service Ltd We believe that the Bank of England will probably stay put in 2017....
...Kathrin Muehlbronner, sovereign risk group, Moody’s Investor’s Service Ltd We do expect the UK economy to slow down significantly in 2017....
...Kathrin Muehlbronner, sovereign risk group, Moody’s Investor’s Service Ltd There remains a high level of uncertainty over the policy platform the incoming US administration will adopt....
...Kathrin Muehlbronner, sovereign risk group, Moody’s Investor’s Service Ltd Feel about the same as 12 months ago Back then, we believed that the decision to leave the EU would be negative for the UK economy...
...house prices fall (they are currently down by a record amount), (iii) we see FX outflows (which are now close to record highs), (iv) deposit growth slows down sharply (they are close to a record low), and (v)...
...Kathrin Muehlbronner, Moody’s, Senior Vice President — Sovereign Risk Group A vote to leave would be negative for growth in our view, not only for 2016 but also for 2017....
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