Hints and tips:
...With a shareholder vote and Ratcliffe’s tender offer yet to be scheduled, minority shareholders, including activist investor Ricky Sandler of Eminence Capital, are on alert....
...Particularly those of one half of the couple, Heather Morgan....
...This is the attitude that Piers Morgan wants to tap into, but it is worn lightly....
...In episode one, “Jobseeker”, Mandy has a tense meeting with her long-suffering benefits adviser (Tom Basden, who like Greenidge and Morgan appeared in the Ricky Gervais comedy After Life)....
...Reliable purveyor of awfulness Ricky Gervais returns in a slightly softer guise in After Life (Netflix, from Friday)....
...This new series of The Crown, written by Peter Morgan who also wrote the script for the film, The Queen, covers the years between 1964 and 1977....
...Showbiz moralising is not without its critics: at this year’s Golden Globes, Ricky Gervais told Hollywood’s finest that they were in “no position to lecture the public about anything”....
...“Investors have gotten increasingly nervous,” Morgan Stanley analysts said in October, citing a “lack of new market launches (India & Russia)”....
...The deal would “diversify CVS profit streams ahead of an Amazon entry and set the stage for a new healthcare-retail delivery model,” said Ricky Goldwasser, analyst at Morgan Stanley....
...• Aviva Investors has hired Ricky Varaden as a portfolio manager within its liability-driven investment team....
...Nearly 15 per cent of TalkTalk’s shares are on loan to short sellers, up from around 2 per cent a year ago, with Odey Asset Management and Ricky Sandler’s Eminence Capital among the hedge funds to disclose...
...Super Size Me creator Morgan Spurlock’s documentary POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold, which was released in the US in April, confirmed the growing importance of product placement in film-making...
...Chang Sun, a veteran of both Goldman and Morgan Stanley, is running Warburg Pincus’s operations in China....
...Morgan and John D. Rockefeller, held to have indulged in unscrupulous or anti-competitive practices....
...Other headlining acts include Saturday Night Live alumni Tracy Morgan and Sarah Silverman, who will share her acerbic wit and taboo-smashing jokes with three guest performers....
...Ricky Gervais, creator of The Office, is doing a one-nighter with his third live show, Fame, at Edinburgh Castle on August 26, with tickets at £37.50 for the 90-minute performance....
...The names of the main tenants are redolent of big global business, divorced from any one city or country: HSBC, Morgan Stanley, Citigroup....
...This week he plays in the Regions Morgan Keegan Championships in Memphis....
...But the (relatively) unlauded Extras (BBC), Ricky Gervais’s follow-up to The Office, carries a much-needed banner for British comedy....
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