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...And when we tried to find out who was behind TGP Europe we found a very interesting press release from one of its contractors....
...US defence contractors Lockheed Martin and Raytheon also report earnings as demand for their products surges. 3M, Johnson & Johnson and General Electric also report....
...“Buying an insurance company that looks a lot like Berkshire sounds like it could fit well,” said James Shanahan, an analyst at Edward Jones. “And perhaps Buffett needs a win.”...
...For many of the team members and contractors it was the first time that managers had actively discussed their work with them....
...1976; Daniel Boorstin, librarian of US Congress, Washington, DC, July 29 1976 Fifth row: Felix Rohatyn, chairman, Municipal Assistance Corporation, New York, April 15 1976; William Paley, chairman, CBS Inc...
...Additional reporting by Oliver Ralph in London...
...The Dow Jones Industrial Average and the Nasdaq Composite each gained 0.7 per cent. In Europe, the pan-regional Stoxx 600 rose 1.4 per cent to its highest since early December....
...One thing to start: join DD’s Arash Massoudi, the FT’s natural resources editor Neil Hume and local correspondent Ralph Atkins for an exclusive reader event in Zurich on November 22....
...Ralph Nader's Unsafe at Any Speed forced car companies to make vehicles safer, not market forces. What we get to are issues of market failure....
...At the close in New York, the S&P 500 was flat at 2,579.9, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 0.4 per cent to 23,516.3, with the Nasdaq Composite also flat at 6,714.9....
...As a Nato member whose defence is subsidised by the US, Norway should not be investing in enemy governments [such as Iran] while undermining allies and American defence contractors....
...US defence contractor Northrop Grumman on Monday said it plans to buy Orbital ATK in a $9.2bn deal, marking the latest sign of consolidation in the industrial sector....
...It is grappling with the collapse of contractor Carillion. On Monday morning, the company said it had filed for liquidation....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on July 11, 2018. ©2018 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...But former bosses of collapsed private contractor Carillion will find the cheque is no longer in the post. They have been stripped of ongoing severance payments following a public outcry....
...The Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 0.5 per cent to 24,504.80, driven by gains in Boeing, the top-weighted member of the share-price weighted average....
...Detailed analysis of public documents carried out by the FT reveals a lead-up to the disaster marked by a complex chain of contractors and sub-contractors that continues to raise the question of who took...
...The experts are “Amazon employees, not contractors”, Amazon notes on its website....
...Lower prices charged by mining contractors due to the wider downturn across the sector have also helped....
...Last year, research by S&P Dow Jones, the index provider, found that almost all US, global and emerging market funds had failed to outperform the market since 2006....
...The Dow Jones US apparel retailers index has fallen 9 per cent from a December peak. The broad market S&P 500 has gained 5 per cent so far this year, touching another intraday high on Thursday....
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