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...He had success running rival Dollar General....
...Delays also arise from spare parts shortages, inadequate maintenance training, insufficient support equipment, and a lack of technical data needed to make repairs....
...This typically leads to big cost-overruns and long delays as contractors are incentivised to allow costs to stack up....
...Financial Times reporters consider this and other trends affecting businesses from defence contractors to energy majors, luxury and private equity....
...S&P Global Commodity Insight....
...An upgrade to the route has been mired in a dispute between the government and a Chinese contractor....
...US defence contractors Lockheed Martin and Raytheon also report earnings as demand for their products surges. 3M, Johnson & Johnson and General Electric also report....
...The war in Ukraine has boosted the fortunes of the world’s largest defence contractors with governments promising to increase spending on weapons and other military equipment....
...Last year, Mitsui E&S withdrew from naval and government shipbuilding operations, selling the division to MHI....
...Widespread drilling could also result in higher prices of equipment, labor, and other inputs, further depressing profitability....
...Macdonald, who specialises in smaller British companies, has a similar play with an investment in Ashtead Technology, a subsea equipment rental business, which serves both oil and gas, and offshore wind...
...Companies in Europe are accustomed to exploiting low costs to borrow opportunistically, snapping up funds for general purposes or to speed up purchases of new equipment....
...But how much this will be due to action taken by the BoE and how much a consequence of reversals of Covid-era supply chain disruption and 2022’s spike in energy prices is moot....
...And, as it turns out, that something involved both Tesla and Tom Brady.https://twitter.com/Hertz/status/1452607992961064963?s=20...
...The US has historically been opposed to exporting advanced equipment to China....
...The judge said the ruling would not take effect while gig economy workers and others, including California’s attorney-general, pursued an appeal....
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...Four years later, Abou-Khalil moved to Finnish telecoms equipment maker Nokia as head of legal and compliance for the Middle East and Africa....
...It is still exempt despite a California judge ruling that the law classifying gig workers as independent contractors was unconstitutional....
...Wall Street’s bust-and-boom pandemic year will be capped by one of the biggest tech IPO bubbles in years, as shares in holiday rentals company Airbnb more than doubled on their first day of trading on Thursday...
...Rising mortgage rates (and a potential shortage of rental units) will add significantly to the cost of living for households across the income spectrum....
...California voters’ decision to let Uber and other gig economy companies continue to treat their workers as independent contractors has dealt a crushing blow to campaigners and legislators and paved the way...
...His administration has invoked the law several times in recent months in response to the pandemic, to manufacture equipment such as ventilators and diagnostic testing equipment....
...The engines for its C919 are made by CFM International, a joint venture between General Electric and France’s Safran. The ARJ21’s engines come from Connecticut-based Pratt & Whitney....
...Microsoft’s Xbox Series S and X consoles go on sale....
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