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...American Express Global Business Travel has agreed to buy rival CWT for $570mn in a bet on the continued recovery of business travel....
...Oxy reckons its expertise in enhanced oil recovery — in which carbon dioxide is injected into the earth to release more oil — will give it a leg-up as the world scrambles to find ways to store carbon back...
...However, last year brought evidence of recovery; the company upgraded its profit forecast twice and eventually reported adjusted pre-tax profit of £522mn, up sharply from the pandemic-hit levels of the previous...
...Guedes said the country had entered a “V-shaped” recovery and would grow as much as 2.1 per cent next year, aided by investment commitments from the private sector of more than $100bn....
...Analysts at UBS said the guidance for 2022 looked conservative, but that a profit recovery should strengthen the group’s balance sheet to the point where it could support enhanced returns of cash to shareholders...
...“For many years we were accused of tilting at tech windmills, but what was a solitary campaign, a quixotic quest, has become a movement, and both journalism and society will be enhanced.”...
...“We’re having a Super V [shaped recovery] . . . nobody even thought. Wait till you see that number in GDP,” Mr Trump said in a rally in Pennsylvania this week. “I’ll take 25 per cent right now....
...“All of these companies have just returned an absolute killer of a quarter,” said Youssef Squali, an internet analyst at Truist. “The recovery curve is just a lot sharper than any of us expected....
...Without wanting to overstate it, I think theatre has a part to play in the mental health recovery of our country, not just the economic recovery.”...
...“This is not going to be a V-shaped recovery, at best, this is going to be a U-shaped.”...
...Yes, the numbers are bigger, but the shock, while not a V is shorter and sharper than that crash, and the pre-crisis fiscal situation was strong....
...Though Britain’s response to coronavirus has been riddled with flaws, one institution has emerged with its reputation enhanced: the NHS....
...Idexx said in October that the animal health market had experienced a “V-shaped recovery”....
...“They are buying their way to growth — all the big mobile studios are doing that,” said Mr Murphy. “It’s cheaper to buy a company than it is to build something.”...
...Company founder Yuichi Ishii plays a version of himself in the movie; other parts are played by actors who work for Ishii’s agency; yet everything is scripted by Herzog....
...Appearing via video link from a locked down Madrid, Ms Botin said those estimates were based on a “V-shaped” recession — a sharp shock followed by a rapid recovery, but stressed this was only one possible...
...[T]he impact of the lockdown followed by a V-shaped recovery [suggests] European profit could contract by between 14% and 35% in 2020 depending on the length of the lockdown....
...pre-software intangibles write-down and FX) but the materially higher-than consensus impairments as well as the very cautious outlook commentary outweigh the positives on revenues and costs; 2) Revenues were 3.4%v...
...HSBC has some discussion about V and W shaped recoveries; its own model resembling “the Nike swoosh” is made by combining a proper V in mainland China forms and more of an L among Western European and American...
...“I don’t think it’s a V-recovery,” he says. “An elongated U is perfectly possible. I’m a conservative. I plan for the worst and hope for better....
...However, the two forecasts in the market (other than ours) that were formulated post-outbreak expect a V-shaped recovery (sales densities higher in FY21 than in FY19) and that feels very bullish to us....
...A ‘V’-shaped recovery in global activity may well ensue in the coming quarters, and propel equities beyond their recent peaks, while weighing on havens such as gold, the US dollar and sovereign bonds....
...Causeway Capital Management LLC, the LA hedge fund, has declared 4.88 per cent of Micro Focus....
...; (iv) assist in the payment of sickness benefits; and (v) protect supply-chain financing in response to the coronavirus....
...(CBS, Slate) Boss babies China’s Crispr twins might have had their brains inadvertently enhanced....
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