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...Chief among them: the airline’s long-standing credit card deal with American Express....
...Both sides can then benefit if investors put a premium on companies incorporated there....
...Sometimes I feel like paying a premium and sometimes not: saving time can be as much a commodity as other goods and services....
...But this premium has more to do with bog-standard accounting than cutting-edge tech....
...Apple has suffered falling smartphone sales in China, where it faces increased competition from Huawei in the premium segment of the market and a crackdown on the use of its devices by government employees...
...Merchants are currently able to charge an extra fee for consumers who use American Express cards, but Visa and Mastercard have blocked sellers from doing so for their users....
...The resilience of the Dollar Tree chain allowed the company to trade at a premium to Dollar General throughout much of 2023....
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...Apollo’s bid would equate to a premium of more than 44 per cent to Paramount’s closing share price on Tuesday....
...Currys came second on the list overall behind Mobico Group, the bus and coach operator that used to be called National Express and ahead of budget airline Wizz Air....
...This offer represents a 2.3 per cent premium to its previous all-time high closing price of 1,085p in January 2022....
...Renesas will pay A$68.50 ($44.53) a share for Altium, which had sales of $263mn for the year to June, a premium of over a third to its Wednesday closing price....
...While Capital One trades at 1.4 times tangible book value, it will pay 2.6 times for Discover, inclusive of a 27 per cent premium owed to shareholders. (American Express trades at 6 times book value)....
...JD Sports will pay $87.50 per Hibbett share in cash, representing a premium of about 21 per cent to the US company’s last closing price....
...“It will be a European-market Seagull, a new Seagull,” BYD senior executive Stella Li told reporters, including the UK’s Auto Express, in Shenzhen....
...In the west, growth has been driven by the enduring popularity of premium writing instruments as gifts, and the trend of journaling, as popularised on social media....
...First, countries must agree to extend an exemption from customs duties for digital goods — otherwise we will all pay extra for streaming, software updates and premium social media subscriptions....
...But its strong US business justifies the premium compared with UK peers. With gearing coming down, Flutter also has the bandwidth to make acquisitions to defend its position in the US if necessary....
...American Express Global Business Travel has agreed to buy rival CWT for $570mn in a bet on the continued recovery of business travel....
...Alaska’s cash offer of $18 a share represents a premium of more than 100 per cent to Hawaiian’s three-month average share price. It is still an opportunistic move....
...American Express shares dropped nearly 4 per cent in pre-market trading, after revenue missed expectations, provisions for credit losses tripled and profit topped forecasts....
...ICEV has written to Reddit’s leadership to express our disapproval of the decision and convey the importance of one share, one vote arrangements....
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