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...“Stock buybacks play an important role in the functioning of healthy and efficient capital markets,” said Neil Bradley, the chamber’s vice-president and chief policy officer....
...“It would be great if someone actually found something with the drill bit to remind people of the reasons for holding E&P stocks,” says Brian O’Cathain, chief executive of Petroceltic International, an oil...
...Yet Onora O’Neill, the philosopher, has questioned whether these are the best remedies for restoring trust....
...“The market is now looking for new paper,” says Andy O’Brien, global co-head of debt capital markets at JPMorgan....
...Richard Repetto, analyst at Sandler O’Neill, said the size of the special dividend was roughly in line with expectations....
...Earnings per share from continuing operations fell from 15.6p to 14.5p, but BAE raised its dividend from 7p to 7½p. “It has been a challenging market environment,” said Ian King, chief executive....
...New Economy, by Steve Stoute, Gotham RRP$26, 320 pages The Big Payback: The History of the Business of Hip-Hop, by Dan Charnas, NAL, RRP$16, 672 pages One Day It’ll All Make Sense, by Common and Adam Bradley...
...He gave an example of a leveraged ETF that tracks the S&P 500. Some investors believe that if the S&P 500 is up 10 per cent for the year, the leveraged ETF will return 20 per cent....
...Its shares rose 4 per cent, or 18p, to 465¼p. The figures were boosted by the first full-year contribution from United Defense, which makes the US army’s Bradley fighting vehicle....
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