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...(Bloomberg) US oil driller Continental Resources has hired Rory Sabino, formerly of Bank of America Merrill Lynch....
...Supermarkets across the US, Britain and continental Europe suffered smaller declines. Meanwhile, Amazon shares notched up a 3 per cent gain, adding about $13bn to its market capitalisation....
...Goodyear Tire & Rubber became the latest big US company to detail damage from Venezuela’s financial crisis when the automotive tyre manufacturer reported a $646m charge against fourth-quarter earnings....
...Inside story on Google’s Euro VC efforts Murad Ahmed has been delving into why Google Venture’s European VC fund has disappeared and finds there were frustrations for the continental team over stalled deals...
...Oil services behemoth Halliburton has lost 44 per cent of its value since July; Continental Resources, a huge shale oil producer in North Dakota’s Bakken region, has lost half its value since August; and...
...Top shareholdings: Resolute Forest Products; Dex Media; Cooper Tire & Rubber Company; IBM; Merck & Co; New York Times. Portfolio Value: $2.5bn....
...Compass is performing strongly in North America, where it is winning contracts, and in fast-growing markets, where sales growth before acquisitions is over 12 per cent....
...The same is true of shale: the economics of North American gas production may be unsustainable right now but the advances in extraction techniques are genuine....
...International companies, including the UK’s BAE Systems and Cobham, face similar pressures after having spent the past five years investing heavily in the US to escape the looming defence cuts in much of continental...
...Antonio Perez, the chief executive of Kodak, said last week that an eventual ruling in the group’s favour could be worth more than $1bn in revenue from royalty payments....
...… Power Player: Lorraine Baldry, LCR chairman Property veteran Lorraine Baldry is taking over as chairman of London & Continental Railways as the government-owned group looks to focus on property development...
...Continental is to put prices up by 5 per cent from the start of next year, citing “the currently very high price level for the main types of natural rubber used in the production of car tyres”....
...Continental lost $96m, or $0.84 per share, in the fourth quarter of 2008....
...It has since staged a “v-shaped” revival, pointing to a robust recovery....
...Morgan Stanley also upgraded shares in Continental Airlines, saying it was a likely survivor from the fall-out in the industry....
...chairman of the Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation, an industry consultancy, says the “horrific” figures are made worse by coinciding with rising competition among Qantas, United Airlines, Delta Air Lines and V...
...The V-shaped hulls of the trucks are designed to deflect blasts from roadside bombs, which have been responsible for most of the deaths of US soldiers in Iraq....
...Along the way it lost its distinctive V-tail and picked up a conventional tail. But it is still fast....
...The Anglo-Saxon world never tires of giving lessons in good corporate behaviour to continental Europe....
...Thain, Chief Executive Officer, NYSE Group, Inc. NYSE Group, Inc. (NYSE: NYX) today confirmed in a letter to the Chairmen of the Euronext N.V....
...Right now, for example, one question before the Supreme Court in MedImmune v....
...Should our fear of trolls lead us to abandon the 1908 rule in Continental Paper Bag Co. v. Eastern Paper Bag Co.?...
...English players now “dive”, looking for free-kicks, just as Continentals do, and are as thin and as skilful as the Continentals....
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