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...Ofwat said in December that it was concerned about the financial resilience of several water companies: Thames Water, Yorkshire Water, SES Water and Portsmouth Water. ...
...Dunne’s also known as a former executive of the investment banking firm Sandler O’Neill + partners, which lost dozens of employees in the 9/11 terror attack on the World Trade Center....
...Hedge funds overall have shed 5.6 per cent, far less than the S&P 500’s 20 per cent drop, bolstered by strong performing quant and macro funds....
...England Crossword 16,389: David Riddle, Woodford Green, Greater London; AH Harker, Oxford; Brendan Quigley, Brookline, Massachusetts, US Polymath 1,059: Malcolm Corke, Challans, France Crossword 16,383...
...This chart via Bill O’Donnell at Citi, clearly highlights the relationship between real yields and gold....
...There’s nowhere to begin today other than with some sensational news out of Germany: GFT Technologies SE announces new outlook for the current financial year IT services company GFT Technologies...
...He opened a store in Covent Garden in 2008, expanding the line to directional, rock’n’roll tailoring, with custom orders for Zaha Hadid and Jared Leto....
...(Bloomberg) OVERNIGHT MARKETS: DOWN Asian markets Nikkei 225 down -148.53 (-1.69%) at 8,621 Topix down -10.04 (-1.38%) at 717.64 Hang Seng down -93.80 (-0.45%) at 20,843 US markets S&P 500 down -14.40...
...He went on to become chairman of five FTSE 100 companies – including Lattice, the gas infrastructure group, the concrete maker RMC, the cruise operator P&O, the National Grid electricity business and now...
...All involved also remain highly aware of the risk of a political backlash such as the one that in 2006 forced Dubai’s DP World to drop plans to buy the US container terminals owned by the UK’s P&O....
...There is little doubt that Carnival, the world’s largest cruise ship operator, with 101 vessels and brands including P&O, Cunard and Princess Cruises, faces at the very least short-term upheaval....
...Investors had long expected some kind of correction after a bull run in equities that has taken the S&P to more than double its financial crisis level of two years ago....
...Trading on a p/e multiple of 13, the shares seem fairly priced....
...The total number of reservations for completion in 2009 now stands at 1,092 homes, down 21 per cent compared with the 1,383 made this time last year....
...Croda has been hit by the downturn, but the slide in its share price since June has been about half the 35 per cent lost by the broader S&P Chemicals Index....
...But Travis Perkins rose 1.1 per cent to 383¾p ahead of results on Thursday....
...“The authorities feel the pain of the financial markets and they’re going to do something about it,” said William O’Donnell, strategist at UBS....
...The emirate found itself ensnared in the P&O affair last year, when DP World was forced to sell P&O’s American ports business after US objections to the £4bn takeover....
...The catalyst was disappointing sales news from Tesco, down 4.9 per cent to 432½p, and a warning from the UK’s largest grocer about the rising cost of borrowing....
...The US, too, is getting a fresh look from Arab investors after the wariness that followed the 9/11 attacks and the row over the purchase by Dubai’s DP World of P&O....
...P&G armed their connector mom’s with real value - information that would help in their conversations with others....
...P. Li, Chairman and Chief Executive, The Bank of East Asia Ltd., Hong Kong, China Andrew N. Liveris; CEO, The Dow Chemical Company, USA John A....
...In the US, Dubai Ports World, owned by the Gulf emirate, was forced to sell five port terminals it acquired when it bought P&O in 2006....
...RHM is being acquired by Premier in a cash and stock offer worth 383.2p-a-share following yesterday’s fall in Premier’s share price....
...The S&P Energy Index finished the week down 1.3 per cent....
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