Hints and tips:
...Cartier Tank (c. 2000) When her now husband, Scott, gave Ms Yang a gift when they became “more serious” after about three years of dating, she was initially upset that it was not a wedding ring....
...I’d Die For You: And Other Lost Stories, by F Scott Fitzgerald, Scribner, RRP£12.99/$27 The last unpublished stories by the author of The Great Gatsby....
...Scott Donnelly, chief executive of Textron, Cessna’s parent, told investors during the third-quarter earnings call that he was “reasonably happy” with the US market for business jets....
...Bombardier has instead been focused on its C Series commercial jet, which has so far cost $5.4bn to develop, faced severe delays and won only modest orders....
...“All those measures have upfront costs and will take a year or two to break even,” says Scott Moeller, a Cass University professor. “You don’t get a payback for three or four years.”...
...“This is a landmark time for patients that have cardiovascular disease,” Scott Wasserman, executive medical director of global development at Amgen, told the Financial Times....
...Heineken, which consumes about a third of all apples grown under 30-year contracts with farmers, is expanding its orchards, as is Shepton Mallet Cider Mill, owned by C&C....
...(Bloomberg) J.C. Penney, bleeding cash, seeks to raise $1bn: “J.C....
...Mr Scott is well aware of Airbus’s and Boeing’s potential response to the aircraft. “From the very beginning we assumed there would be very good competition against the C Series,” he says....
...Ted Scott of F&C Investments tells it more plainly: “If Greece did default, then equities would fall sharply.” ...
...“A 15bp tax on bank assets above $50bn will have a devastating effect on the repo market,” says Scott Skyrm, senior vice-president at Newedge, a repo broker....
...Hovis has resurrected its cycling delivery boy and cobbled street last seen in Ridley Scott’s famous 1973 advertisement, which was itself an exercise in nostalgia....
...banks’ microfinance operations are run almost on philanthropic lines, these are highly commercial operations, according to Kirsty Jenkinson, associate director, governance and sustainable investment at F&C....
...The British chain entered the Japanese market in 2004 through the acquisition of C Two-Network, which operates the Tsurukame chain of discount supermarkets....
...Southern Cross Healthcare Group faded 6.6 per cent to 347¾p despite in spite of talk that former chief executive Philip Scott had been in the market buying stock....
...Scott Geels, analyst, said: “ASML is a clear long-term winner heading toward a monopoly lithography position.”...
...Scott Geels at Sanford C Bernstein said that although the financial impact was quite small, it was a positive step in helping it get leverage in the mainstream market....
...Scott Geels, analyst at Sanford C Bernstein, said: “This is a positive for Infineon clearly, though the impact is quite small unless Infineon can leverage the win into the mainstream market.”...
...A few weeks ago, Philip Scott, executive director of Aviva, said the UK’s biggest insurer was keeping a “watchful eye” on acquisitions....
...Scott Geels, senior research analyst at Sanford Bernstein, said he believed ASML would continue to benefit from the faster growth of lithography compared to the overall semiconductor industry....
...But Scott Geels at Bernstein Research kept an “underperform” rating on Philips, based on a negative view of the semiconductor cycle, as well as weak overall operating margins....
...“Valuations are also 10 to 15 per cent above averages, indicating solid downside,” said Scott Geels of Sandford C Bernstein....
...ThyssenKrupp , the German steel and engineering group, rose 2.3 per cent to €18.35 after it raised its friendly bid for Dofasco, the Canadian steelmaker, to C$63 a share....
...But Scott Geels, senior research analyst at Sanford Bernstein, believed the stock had been oversold, pointing out that much of the bad news surrounding the company had already been priced into the stock....
...“Philips, which essentially trades as a semiconductor stock, is undervalued by 30 per cent on our sum-of-parts analysis,” Scott Geels at Bernstein said....
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