Hints and tips:
...I contacted a customer service rep for SC Johnson to find out what was going on....
...Avaya, a long-storied but now troubled US telecom services company, raised $600mn in fresh capital in June through a senior loan and convertible bonds with the help of Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase....
...Why does the same company get an AAA score from one provider but a B from another?...
...and demoting young female colleagues he’d slept with....
...Luckily for DD, the US House of Representatives committee on financial services has made our fantasy gathering a reality....
...The most memorable answer was: “I wish I’d looked at a long-term graph of the stock market, because it would have been the kick up the backside that I needed to start investing young.”...
...“If I do A, will that negatively impact B?” is very dated thinking, he added, “It’s 2020 and Chinese decision making has evolved greatly”....
...Here’s Goodbody: Cranswick provided a Q1 trading update this morning reporting a strong start to the year with c.19% LFL sales growth (25% inc. acquisitions)....
...“I remember sitting down with the crown prince a number of times trying to strategise what exactly we’d like to be invested in, of course it's the future . . . artificial intelligence, robotics,” Mr Rumayyan...
...Next year it expects to increase the flow through its Edmonton rail terminal to 170,000 b/d, from 80,000 b/d earlier this year....
...Company B is a good services company, albeit with exposure to cyclical end-markets; is smaller than its peers; has lower margins, higher leverage and limited cash-generation ability; and went through a restructuring...
...A new and much faster tank, the Medium D, could travel 200 miles at a speed of 20 miles per hour....
...50-bp drag from Airbnb in 2018, and a 40-bp drag in 2019....
...in 3Q from 100 bps in 2Q....
...The Silicon Valley transportation company, which has at times clashed with regulators, is increasingly moving into services beyond simple passenger transportation from point A to point B....
...Just look at the Bank of England, BP and the London Stock Exchange....
...For example, good service sector numbers yesterday were deemed to show companies were “shrugging off the Brexit vote shock”. They might equally have had a randomly good month....
...Nortek is pricey, as you’d expect when the vendors of a 69 per cent stake are tough US distressed debt funds....
...The company declined to quantify what the increased investment would represent in dollar terms or as a proportion of R&D spending....
...He has pulled out at least 20 dead fish, including big trout, which was “a bit heartbreaking really”....
...Aggregate US credit spreads have risen to 155 basis points from 118 bps since March, with a modest tightening from last month’s peak of 160 bps....
...United Parcel Service (Delivery Services) 70. Banco Santander (Finance) 71. BMW (Automotive) 72. Accenture (Finance) 73. Sony (Technology) 74. Coca-Cola (Consumer Goods) 75....
...Other companies registered to lobby on the bill include BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil, Hess and Royal Dutch Shell, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a research group that tracks money in US politics...
...A board needs strength in depth, which is why BP has hired Sir John Sawers, former head of MI6....
...The spread between higher quality double B names and lower quality triple C names widened from 250 basis points in July to 400 bps in early December, Goldman Sachs notes....
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