Hints and tips:
...Altice USA’s chair Alexandre Fonseca has also stepped back....
...It is at risk of a downgrade by rating agency S&P Global if it spends more than $20bn on spectrum and its earnings are flat this year....
...Big, listed chains like McDonald’s, Domino’s Pizza and Papa John’s have all reported strong like-for-like sales growth in recent trading updates....
...Staffordshire, England Polymath 1,040: Patricia Blakemore, West Midlands, England Crossword 16,272: Martha F Browne, New York; Sean Putnam, Wellingborough, UK; Richard Cauman, Knoxville, US Polymath 1,039...
...John Edmonds pleaded guilty to commodities fraud and spoofing conspiracy in gold, silver, platinum and palladium futures, the US Department of Justice said....
...With S bringing in ~41MM retail customers (excluding wholesale), TMUS/S combined would be the second largest retail wireless player behind VZ with nearly 100MM combined postpaid and prepaid subscribers....
...Last month, the chief of Papa John’s — another major pizza delivery chain — also departed, after getting singed by a controversy over National Football League protests....
...Then came James Mackintosh, who wrote 1,039 Short Views (I had thought he was further ahead of me than that)....
...Don’t tell Jeremy Corbyn or John McDonnell....
...Orange’s takeover of Jazztel in Spain, BT’s £12.5bn acquisition of EE in the UK, Tele2’s move on Com Hem in Sweden and Deutsche Telekom’s purchase of Tele2’s Dutch mobile network and Liberty’s Austrian cable...
...President Donald Trump claimed credit for a “huge win for American workers and the USA”....
...Additional reporting by John Authers A panel in this story — Facebook v Snap — originally stated that Facebook’s market capitalisation at its IPO was $31bn. It has since been amended to $104bn....
...Another first is the USA Pavilion — look out for glassware by John Hogan and the rugged furniture of Fernando Mastrangelo....
...“In concrete terms, the securities were pledged for a subsidiary of HNA Group before the acquisition of Swissport was finalised,” S&P said in a note....
...Mr Papa resigned as chief of Perrigo on Sunday, and the Dublin-based drugmaker saw its shares dive 18 per cent on Monday after warning on profits and naming John Hendrickson as its new chief executive....
...(USA Today) Blood test detects cancer relapse A blood test could have the potential to save lives by detecting cancers that have started to grow again following treatment....
...John Fallon, Pearson’s chief executive,explains why to the FT’s John Gapper....
...Charter Communications, backed by John Malone, had agreed to buy 3.9m subscribers from Comcast and TWC, and had bid $10.4bn for Bright House Networks....
...“The number one priority for both HSBC and Citi today is to stay out of trouble on anti-money laundering and bank secrecy act issues,” says Noor Menai, chief executive of CTBC Bank USA and a former Citi...
...(Wall Street Journal) COMMENT AND CURIOS: - John Authers: Deploying the ‘three dirty words of finance’ in search of yield....
...(Bloomberg) - John Gapper: The disturbing revolving door from high level public service roles to the private sector....
...(Financial Times) OVERNIGHT MARKETS: UP SLIGHTLY Asian markets Nikkei 225 up +19.04 (+0.13%) at 14,801 Topix up +0.79 (+0.06%) at 1,233 Hang Seng down -28.13 (-0.12%) at 22,962 US markets S&P 500 up +...
...(Financial Times) - John Plender: The dollar is the only serious reserve currency. (Financial Times) - Almost 6,000 dead pigs pulled from Shanghai river....
...The S&P 500 fell 0.6 per cent, closing at 1,502.42, after poor data from both Europe and the US, where initial claims and the Philly Fed survey both cast a pall (Reuters)....
...(Financial Times) OVERNIGHT MARKETS: DOWN Asian markets Nikkei 225 down -21.61 (-0.17%) at 12,327 Topix down -1.48 (-0.14%) at 1,039 Hang Seng down -29.44 (-0.13%) at 23,061 US markets S&P 500 up +5.04...
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