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...Unilever cools on ice cream I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream. Except, apparently, at the European consumer giant Unilever....
...Yields on single-B rated debt — a marker of the leverage common in buyouts — have surged from 4.7 per cent at the start of the year to 8.9 per cent, according to ICE Data Services....
...Boeing asked for the exemption last year after discovering a flaw in the aircraft’s engine anti-ice system....
...The company spent billions of dollars acquiring truck-stop operator Pilot Flying J and insurance conglomerate Alleghany in recent years, adding them to a portfolio that includes ice cream purveyor Dairy...
...The strength of demand will embolden private equity executives whose business has been largely on ice since the Federal Reserve began raising interest rates in 2022....
...The latter is now a core holding in the company’s stock portfolio....
...It is also the latest shift by the conglomerate, which spans the Geico insurer, BNSF railroad and Dairy Queen ice cream purveyor, into blue-chip technology companies....
...The benchmark S&P 500 has declined 20.9 per cent while an investor in US Treasuries has lost 15.3 per cent, according to Ice Data Services....
...It was a filing made by an entity named FCM BBBY Holdings, LLC which listed its address as a nondescript Wyoming office building....
...“Many are already concerned about commercial interests having involvement at all, let alone a company that helped Donald Trump with his ICE detentions at the Mexican border,” said Phil Booth, founder of...
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on February 9 2022. ©2022 Nikkei Inc....
...Berkshire’s many operating companies, which include ice cream purveyor Dairy Queen, the Geico insurer, and private jets operator NetJets, nonetheless had a banner year....
...Jamie also reviews the Louis Vuitton Horizon Light Up speaker, a Sony 4K projector and a Ninja ice cream maker. Read more...
...The company uses advanced flash-freezing technology to minimise ice crystal formation....
...I sympathise with Mitoshi Matsumoto, the Osaka franchisee who faces the indignity of Seven & i Holdings, the chain’s Japanese owner, opening another 7-Eleven store in what was his car park as part of their...
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on July 15 ©2022 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...Other investors have quietly reduced holdings in companies with links to the occupied territories....
...Kioxia Holdings, the chip unit bought by Bain Capital in 2018 and 40 per cent owned by Toshiba, has postponed Japan’s biggest initial public offering of the year as tensions between Washington and Beijing...
...There’s a hefty backlog of deals that were put on ice at the start of the year that they need to get through first....
...But ice walls melt and legal systems can turn on technology monopolists....
...I suspect future historians will see this as a reaction to the shock of the 2008 crisis, the explosion of populism, geopolitical instability — and melting ice caps....
...Berkshire in April sold all its holdings in American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Southwest and United Airlines....
...ICE operates regulated financial exchanges. ICE shares fell 7 per cent when news of the approach broke, suggesting confusion about the company's rationale for holding preliminary takeover talks....
...Silver is a longtime adviser to ICE and previously worked as a banker at Moelis, Morgan Stanley and Merrill Lynch....
...(FT) Holdout heroes Elliott Management, the king of holding out until it gets what it wants, scored itself a nice Christmas bonus....
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