Hints and tips:
...There is a problem with poor levels of productivity, writes columnist Sarah O’Connor, but this is mainly down to lack of investment in new technology that helps workers do their jobs more efficiently....
...The energy transition strategy update in March is key to becoming more positive on the stock, absent a V-shaped recovery for their O&G customers. Glaring value?...
...Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
...And, as lockdown measures are softened, the return of the likes of Gregg's, Starbucks et al to the UK FtG market will increase competition....
...There’s not much precedent to support the idea that Shina et al can walk away based on a MAC clause: WPP was forced against its will to buy Tempus in 2001, Guy Hands couldn’t scrap a bid for East Surrey...
...“Amazon” Cuomo et al will hope not. In Wisconsin, considerable effort was expended to woo Foxconn — a Taiwan-based company which makes, among other things, roughly half of the world’s iPhones....
...Deleveraging will be the story, just not quite yet as the same speed as Rio Tinto, Fortescue Metals, Newcrest Mining et al.”...
...(FT) Food for thought Redefining the sharing economy The gig economy is neither “sharing” nor “collaborative”, argues Sarah O’Connor....
...As the FT’s Sarah O’Connor reported at the time, large employers of migrants are sceptical these changes will make any difference....
...The forecast is terrible, says Penny Scott, who owns O’Connors Campers in Okehampton, Devon....
...The company sells carpets to cruise ships and hotels around the world, including the Burj Al Arab hotel in Dubai and Waldorf Astoria in Florida....
...“The whole opportunity around mobile banking is huge,” said George O’Connor, an analyst at Panmure Gordon. “Monitise have got to work hard, and they’ve got to be seen as the platform.”...
...figures including Truman Capote, Flannery O’Connor, Michael Jackson, Richard Pryor and Louise Brooks – each representing a facet of the complex social construct Als calls the “white girl”....
...Some of the praise came somewhat grudgingly: “While I have little time for [prime minister David] Cameron et al, I have to admit that Osborne has done a brilliant job of – just about – keeping the markets...
...Chief players : Bryan Lourd, Kevin Huvane, Richard Lovett, David O’Connor....
...On a more positive note, Kesa had net cash of £5.2m at the end of September, compared with £315.3m of debt at the same time last year, after the £409m sale of BUT, a French furniture chain....
...What really happened at Northern Rock, Royal Bank of Scotland et al? This gives you a clearer idea....
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