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...“Germans long believed they lived in a well-governed country, one that was better run than most other states in Europe,” says Alexander Graf Lambsdorff, a senior MP for the liberal Free Democrats....
...The mayors also agreed that experts of the Robert Koch Institute, Germany’s main public health authority, and soldiers from the Bundeswehr would be deployed to areas that had seen more than 35 cases per...
...York von Wartenburg Dechert LLP, Brussels/Frankfurt Tom McQuail Morrison & Foerster LLP, Brussels Marius Juonys Ellex Valiunas, Vilnius Peter Alexiadis Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Brussels Robert...
...“We haven’t seen major positions on sterling from macro managers,” said Robert Duggan, partner at New York-based SkyBridge Capital, which runs $9.4bn and invests in hedge funds....
...• Robert Nestor has joined Direxion as president of the $14bn New York-based leveraged exchange traded fund specialist....
...“The impact of the cyber attack on TNT Express and lower-than-expected results at FedEx Ground reduced our first-quarter earnings,” said Alan Graf, chief financial officer....
...The half-German, half-Australian aristocrat is the grandson of Nazi resistance fighter Helmuth James Graf von Moltke, making the von Moltke name widely revered in Germany....
...Mr Graf told the Manchester Evening News in 2011 that he had gone to Libya to bring back his mother. He said he was captured, imprisoned and tortured....
...They have fed voraciously and put on more weight than Robert De Niro in Raging Bull — but unlike Jake LaMotta, they are sweet-scented and have a delicate, melting texture....
...Mustafa Graf, the imam of the Didsbury mosque, the centre of the Libyan community in south Manchester, had also travelled back to Libya to help topple Gaddafi....
...“We now expect our fiscal 2016 adjusted earnings to be up 20 per cent to 22 per cent over last year, as we continue to benefit from our execution of the profit improvement programme,” Alan Graf, chief financial...
...“We expect our solid earnings growth to continue in the second half of our fiscal year despite weakness in industrial production,” Mr Graf said....
...However, Mr Graf was careful to caution investors that there would be high costs and a long timeframe....
...“We expect continued revenue and earnings growth this year, driven by ongoing improvements in all of our transportation segments,” Mr Graf said....
...In 2012 Graf von Neipperg’s Canon La Gaffelière was promoted one notch above La Fleur Morange. Something to aim for?...
...“The outlook assumes continued moderate economic growth and a modest net benefit from fuel,” Mr Graf said....
...Mr Graf said the company remained committed to improving “earnings, cash flows, returns on invested capital and returns to shareholders”....
...The announcement of Mr Graf’s hire was greeted by an 11 per cent jump in Twitter shares....
...Alan Graf, FedEx’s chief financial officer, said the weather’s effect on the company’s performance had been “significantly more pronounced” this year than previous years....
...Robert Peck, an analyst at SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, said the reshuffle made sense for the company. “Product innovation hasn’t kept up with the pace expected by management and investors,” he said....
...However, FedEx’s results for the year to May 31 were 35 per cent up on its results for 2012-13 and Alan Graf, chief financial officer, said after those results were published that he expected the current...
...Bob Roberts, a former Daily Mirror journalist, is responsible for Labour’s media strategy as the party’s director of communications....
...“We remain confident in our full-year earnings outlook despite tepid global economic growth,” said Alan Graf, chief financial officer....
...“Our profit improvement programme is progressing, but we continue to see the effects of customers selecting lower-rate international services,” Mr Graf said....
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