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...Studio E did not respond to an email requesting comment....
...Nerves have frayed alongside the slide in global stock markets, with bourses plumbing fresh lows on Friday despite a midweek rally....
...Finally, we take a look at the Nasdaq’s sector components and the top 10 Nasdaq stocks in 2000 and now, with their respective P/E ratios....
...The buyout is the largest take-private transaction of 2014, eclipsing Onex’s €3.75bn for SIG Combibloc, the drink carton maker, last month and Apollo’s $1bn takeover of Chuck E Cheese....
...They’re the plumbing that holds the whole thing together. They’re the secret sauce that gives one player an advantage over another....
...Financially, this endeavour had always been followed by efforts to connect Russia to the plumbing which developed markets take for granted....
...Heading west to France would mean he could enjoy a similar package for a sixth of the most expensive German offer, according to research from Raymond James, the investment group....
..., beyondbrics Amazon: set to join Brazil’s e-commerce fray?, beyondbrics Investing in Brazil 2012, FT Special Report...
...“If we don’t see a pick-up in the fourth quarter, then that would be a sign that there is consumer fatigue setting in for daily deals,” said Aaron Kessler, an analyst with Raymond James....
...“The plumbing of the stock market has changed so much that it’s hurting and destroying the price discovery process.”...
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...Long seen as the unglamorous plumbing of the financial markets, clearing has moved centre-stage in the wake of the 2008 crisis as regulators insist that clearing houses be used more widely to process over-the-counter...
...continue to be negatively impacted by unfavourable market conditions for institutional fixed income sales and trading, [but] we are encouraged by the early success,” said Patrick O’Shaughnessy, analyst at Raymond...
...Detective Inspector Mark Raymond from the Met Police’s Central e-Crime Unit said: “The arrests relate to our enquiries into a series of serious computer intrusions and online denial-of-service attacks recently...
...The rival bid is valued at 12 per cent more than the Deutsche Börse share swap, according to Patrick O’Shaughnessy, analyst at Raymond James, or $11.2bn versus $10bn....
...South Korea’s Kospi Composite index fell 3.5 per cent, plumbing its lowest intraday levels since March. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 declined 3.8 per cent to a two-year low....
...John Ransom, an analyst at Raymond James, noted that the deal represented little risk for Walgreen since the price was less than 1 per cent of its market capitalisation....
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...One of the most thrilling digital developments of 2010 was the arms race between e-book readers....
...“They are born with a golden spoon in their mouth, so they can outspend everyone else in marketing,” said Raymond Tao, president of Ogilvy & Mather Advertising, a WPP affiliate....
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...My pulse revs up: three unread e-mails, plus three new voice messages. E-mails first: Lucian Stock at the HK office (Copper nudging 1100, could knacker our ICRVs, suggest SELL 40% first thing Jan 2....
...And how do you have backstops, crisis resolutions, to central banks within this, if they are going to be pan-global i.e. across central banks?...
...“People are getting a bit too bullish,” says Raymond Key, head of metals at Deutsche Bank....
...Shares in Amazon closed up 0.6 per cent at $139.31, after it reported that it sold more e-books than paper versions for the first time on Christmas Day....
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