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...Ortenca, last time we had you on with a friend of the show, Rob Armstrong. And Rob said that Carl Icahn, Wall Street legend, was hoisted by his own petard....
...Flavourings company Novozymes clinched a deal to acquire smaller rival Chr Hansen for about $12bn in what would be the largest merger of two Danish companies....
...In the US, where the flavour ban has only succeeded in fostering a fruity black market, vapers prefer flavours so sweet that “you can feel the sugar on your teeth”, as Rob Harvey of Flonq, an e-cigarette...
...Read the full story from the FT’s Cynthia O’Murchu and DD’s Rob Smith here....
...“January’s rise in lending is surprising, given the wider economic context,” said Hansen Lu, property economist with Capital Economics....
...Its chairman, Henrik Ramlau-Hansen, resigned on Thursday as he was chief financial officer of Danske from 2011 until 2016....
...What blockchain offers is certainty of identification, says Rob Jennings, the fast-talking chief executive of BeefChain, the start-up that was tagging cows at Mr Driskill’s 10,000-acre ranch....
...Rob Hansen and Ian Chun, who will both be based in New York, join from Deutsche Bank and Sanford Bernstein, respectively. Maggie Chau, who will be based in Hong Kong, has moved from PwC....
...Ole Hansen, head of commodity strategy at Saxo Bank said negative fundamentals and negative momentum was making oil an easy target for short-sellers....
...Frank Oland Hansen, senior analyst at Danske Bank, cautioned that, if the eurozone slid back into a double-dip recession now, not much could be done....
...Don Hansen, vice president of Unocal International Energy Operations, said: “For commercial reasons we have elected not to proceed with the project....
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