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...Financial services deals in the UK hit a five-year record of 252 in 2021, according to consultancy EY, up from 134 in 2020....
...Corporate earnings reports out today include Harmonic Drive Systems, Takashimaya and OSG....
...Net income slid to $138.9m or 48 cents a share in the second quarter, down from $252.4m or 87 cents a share. That topped expectations for earnings of 45 cents....
...“We are very happy with the restructuring at OSG,” says Wilbur Ross, who is among OSG’s creditors. “The combination of the Jones Act and shale gas has been phenomenal.”...
...Open interest – the number of outstanding contracts – rose in the second half of January from 37 lots to 252 lots, which represents 6,300 tonnes of aluminium....
...Asia Nikkei 225 down -0.28% at 14,462 Topix up +0.01% at 1,205 Hang Seng down -0.66% at 23,150 Shanghai Composite down -0.57% at 2,148 MSCI Asia ex-Japan down -0.47% at 557.98 CNX Nifty up +0.50% at 6,252...
...(Reuters) “Fiat is in talks for as much as $10 billion in financing from a pool of banks to buy the Chrysler Group LLC stake it doesn’t own and refinance the two automakers’ debt, people familiar with the...
...Sources also say that Citadel LLC and KKR & Co are no longer considering an investment in the brokerage (Bloomberg)....
...In response, it has accelerated its job cuts and now intends to end the year with about 19,000 workers, down from a peak at the end of 2010 of 23,252....
...For example, at the end of the first quarter of 2011 (reported on May 3), investors were told that total enrolment was 88,252 students....
...Arun Sarin, chief executive, said the third quarter had been good for Vodafone, with customers increasing by 10.8m, taking the total to 252.3m....
...Overall, the LSE said it had seen 252 IPOs raising £26.1bn this year. However, numbers were down from 2006 when the exchange attracted 367 IPOs that raised £29.4bn....
...The Athens General index closed 2.5 per cent higher at 3,252.13, a two-day rise of 4.3 per cent....
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