Hints and tips:
...The confessional set features three Franco/American rhythm sections, tributes for Ahmad Jamal and Michel Legrand and styles ranging from impressionism to Mozart and the blues....
...In the 1978 remake, Robert Mitchum’s Marlowe is even seen playing out moves on a miniature board while on stake-out. Chandler, in turn, was friendly with James Bond creator Ian Fleming....
...“Confidence is still very fragile,” Robert Parkes, UK equity strategist at HSBC, said about the lack of direction in markets this week....
...The country needs more investment to push output up and make employment more profitable Robert Wood, Berenberg Bank: Not very much longer....
...Julian LeGrand, LSE: They are much too high in London....
...Robert Wood, Berenberg Bank: Economically, leaving the European Union would be a big blow. Half of UK exports go to the EU....
...Julian LeGrand, LSE: A low chance of economic recovery; and not sure if it’ll be sustained it does occur....
...Julian LeGrand, LSE: Obviously the fate of plan A will depend on the answer to 1. But he should probably move to plan B: a Keynesian reflation: looser fiscal policy, tighter monetary policy....
...The year after the Brussels veto back in 2001, it sold its 98 per cent stake in Legrand for €3.63bn to a consortium led by Wendel Investissement and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts....
...I refer to the former MP for Buckingham turned newspaper proprietor Robert Maxwell....
...Shares in Legrand fell sharply after Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Wendel, the US and French private equity groups, announced they had sold 30m shares in the French electrical equipment maker for about €550m...
...Julian LeGrand, LSE I am slightly sceptical as to whether the public expenditure cuts will occur – or at least as to whether they will be as draconian as predicted....
...The group, run by Henry Kravis and his cousin George Roberts, said it still had $15.4bn of “dry powder”, or uninvested capital, to spend on new deals....
...Julian Legrand, LSE I am much more uncertain about the likely course of events this coming year than when asked the same question in previous years....
...Julian Legrand, LSE Last year I was worried about inflation, and that worry was born out by events....
...Robert Barrie, Credit Suisse They are more fairly valued than they were, but becoming less so. The market remains responsive to low rates....
...Julian LeGrand, London School of Economics Yes, growth will resume at higher levels....
...But the fund was also hurt by a drop in the value of some of its European investments, as it took a $138.2m writedown on its stake in ProSiebenSat.1, the German broadcaster, and $60m on its stake in Legrand...
...Only a handful of listed European companies, Pages Jaunes, Legrand and Pro-SeibenSat.1 Media, have dragged down results at KPE....
...Julian LeGrand, London School of Economics In previous recession, poverty and relative inequality fell....
...Robert Barrie, Credit Suisse The consensus seems to be that the recovery should be given a year or so to get going and then serious budgetary consolidation should start....
...Sian Brooke stars as heroine Dorothy, with comedian Roy Hudd as the Wizard and Julie Legrand as the Wicked Witch of the West....
...Robert Barrie, Credit Suisse Some will be concerned about the banks ability to lend, or the lack of it, and others will worry about employment and unemployment....
...Julian LeGrand, London School of Economics It is not an illusion that Britain’s GNP increased by 50 per cent since 1997....
...To avoid a protectionist backlash, most big foreign buy-out firms use a local partner, as in the takeover of Legrand, the electrical equipment maker bought by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts of the US and Wendel...
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