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...All of these companies have underperformed the FTSE 100 index. Size is one reason. Bunzl, Howdens et al are generally smaller than the household names, and smaller companies can grow faster....
...The biggest motor insurers in the UK, for example, are the same ones that were around a decade or two ago — Aviva, Admiral, Direct Line et al. It is a similar story in the US....
...In the communications sector, the video entertainment companies (Warner Bros Discovery, Paramount, Disney, Netflix et al) explain the bulk of the outperformance....
...The second is an article on Anglo-Greek wrangling over the return of Parthenon Marbles hoarded by the British Museum, written by George Parker et al....
...Once they’ve mastered new methods, they’ll pass some of them on to Chanel et al. “The Barrie brand is a shop window so people can see what we can actually do,” he says....
...Former US vice-president Al Gore and financier David Blood are launching a climate change asset manager that will largely focus on private markets....
...Trump et al v....
...“If I think of the amount of pressure I’m under as a deposit taker and the care and attention I have to take when providing unsecured lending to younger people, it is staggering me that Klarna et al are...
...Et cetera, ad nauseam. The numbers seem to back up the thesis....
...For example, in a 2010 opinion (Chevron Corp v Steven Donziger, et al) handed down from the US district court in Manhattan, the judge wrote that the “evidence at trial established that Donziger, a New York...
...The case, Brown et al. vs USA Taekwondo et al., deals with sexual abuse suffered by three young former Olympic hopefuls in taekwondo, whose coach was convicted and sent to prison in 2015....
...al, with just $9bn on legacy oil and gas....
...Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
...al), which improves SONG’s negotiating position. . . . . uh, great?...
...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...
...Many French cinema owners, who are putting pressure on Cannes to resist Netflix et al, see the streamers’ disruptive attitude as an incursion into their territory....
...Deutsche bankers beware: if German public opinion hardens further from its already hostile view of banks and bankers, Mr Sewing, Mr Ritchie et al could well find themselves the butt of calls for a “Deutschmerz...
...So the big question in the next two weeks is whether Jacob Rees-Mogg et al, faced by that hard reality, will finally fall into line behind the PM after all their prevarication....
...Per Starr et al., a 10 per cent increase in the number of non-competes leads to 6 per cent lower wages in states that enforce the agreements versus those that do not....
...“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....
...Nor has Britain seen the emergence of any new production companies to match Working Title, the Universal-backed but proudly British outfit behind Four Weddings, Bridget Jones, Darkest Hour et al, or independent...
...” – The Essar-Rosneft (et al) deal made StanChart v happy. – A Penn Wharton tax budget policy simulator. – Unemployment in America, mapped over time. – Hindus for Trump sounds like it was… fun....
...In 2011, he took over the ailing Montpellier Hérault Rugby Club, injecting €3m annually to try and lift it back to the European top....
...All this has proved a bit of a puzzle to the moneybags, many of whom have dropped bundles on Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio et al, whose ample funding counted for nothing in the end....
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