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...If there is a sense from this earnings season that confidence in a V-shaped recovery for profits is misplaced, then the impact will probably be hardest on companies with weak balance sheets, and on those...
...“I would say that, as a team, we've pretty well discounted a uniform V-shaped recovery. The question is, is it U-shaped, is it W-shaped or parts of it L-shaped?”...
...Deutsche Bank’s satellite-powered shipping tracker indicates that Chinese economic activity has now stopped contracting, and some economists are predicting a V-shaped recovery....
...The Supreme Court’s Roe v Wade decision guaranteed a fundamental right to choose to have an abortion....
...On the last Sunday of April 2019, a sleek Gulfstream V jet belonging to Occidental Petroleum touched down at Omaha airport....
...Xerox wants to give HP’s board its walking papers We’re all guilty of overusing the David v Goliath trope but in the case of Xerox and HP, it really does apply....
...Morgan Stanley (AstraZeneca’s joint house broker) agrees: There is little-to-no overlap with the core businesses of each company....
...WPP will also reduce is planned capex from £400m to v£300m....
...JP Morgan’s talks with Lyft were first reported by Reuters....
...As Jeffrey Skilling left a minimum security prison camp in Alabama last week — on his way to a halfway house for ex-cons — he may not have been inclined to contemplate history’s ironic reversals....
...Lyft has hired the IPO adviser Class V, which was founded by Lise Buyer, one of the key architects of Google’s 2004 Dutch auction. But Uber will not be far behind....
...Last year was exceptional for Europe Inc in terms of growth, profitability and business expectations....
...CDL v Millennium hotels: Singapore stand-off A simple question sits at the heart of a battle between one of Singapore’s richest men Kwek Leng Beng and a group of investors in UK-listed Millennium & Copthorne...
...MUFG, far less dramatically, invested $9bn in a 22 per cent stake in Morgan Stanley....
...Smart reads David v Goliath Large consumer goods companies are starting to feel the impact of their smaller, more innovative rivals....
...JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley will act as lead book-running managers on the offering....
...As Morgan Stanley’s Adam Jonas noted after reviewing Hertz’ results this week: It’s hard enough running a car rental firm in a normal environment....
...By 2020, about 1m homes could have batteries, according to Morgan Stanley analysts....
...US court told PwC cut corners in Colonial audit Control+C, Control+V....
...“Large wire-houses such as Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley are able to pay substantial premiums.”...
...But there was no joking about Univision’s interest in The Onion, whose properties include the pop culture-focused A.V....
...Under draft legislation released by Richard Shelby, the Republican senator from Alabama, the threshold for banks to be designated “systemically important” would be raised from $50bn to $500bn....
...economic benefits based, directly or indirectly, on the value or price of, any capital stock of, or other securities or ownership interests in, the Company (the items in clauses (i), (ii), (iii), (iv) and (v)...
...According to an expansive report by a Morgan Stanley analyst earlier in the week, it could also make it the dominant player in a $1,500bn market for selling energy storage devices to electric utilities....
...Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, which led league tables for bank mergers and acquisition activity in 2013, are underwriting the offering....
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