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...“Such a deal has strategic logic and meaningful synergies but we’d imagine investors would see it as opportunistic rather than imperative,” said Jefferies....
...“I could have gotten my mail there.” Like Richard Burton, Goodman “romanticised” the bar....
...Ultimately, the Fitch downgrade is a) An embarrassment to a Chancellor who made such a political totem pole of the AAA ratings in the early years of the government b) Neither an embarrassment nor likely...
...And the London-based clearer could be a potential “plan B” for NYSE. E-mail the Lex team in confidence at lex@ft.com...
...by mail....
...She danced with the grace of: A. a drunkard. B. a swan on a snowboard C. a sailor’s mermaid tattoo. D. a dream in the night. (The correct answer is B)....
...Conventional A and AA rated bank paper is coming to the institutional market with 5-year maturities at around 5 per cent, but given a choice, I think I’d rather bet on a social housing organisation than...
...At the end of last year, Gwyneth Paltrow received a plaintive e-mail....
...Last year, by contrast, oil product demand in North America rose by 609,000 b/d....
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...Began with a “B”). We’d dropped acid and had sex three or four times with Radiohead’s Kid A on shuffle-repeat....
...Production impact today is minuscule, but various estimates put it at 80,000-130,000 barrels a day in a year and a worst-case scenario of 500,000 b/d later this decade....
...By implanting its links and cornflower blue “f” logo on millions of pages, the company is enmeshing itself deeper into the fabric of the web, one site at a time. B.J....
...Faced with a choice between the unknown at Barclays and the opportunity to manage the portfolio they’d built at Lehman, many chose the latter....
...And his salesman at Bank of America claimed they’d had a “power outage.” “I viewed these ‘systems problems’ as excuses for buying time to sort out a mess behind the scenes,” he said....
...In August of 2009, 1.7 myn b/d of the US refinery runs was accountable for the 450 mbpd of net Distillate exports....
...I’d say the George V for sheer over-the-topness and people-watching, lunch at Noura, a treat from Goyard and dinner at Ferdi....
...M&B and Tchenguiz seem to have revived an earlier plan to move property and debts into a separate Reit....
...With the e-mail came attached a “Leadership Advantage Toolkit” containing 66 characteristics that might be desirable in a leader, including “dealing with paradox” and “organisational agility”....
...Beliefnet also began to do “push” marketing by sending out millions of daily inspirational e-mails offering what Waldman refers to as “daily spiritual nourishment”....
...He received a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1978 and an A.B. from Harvard College in 1975....
...d fill my order, tell the clerk, who?d signal the desk, who?d call my broker, who?d call me. You?ve now eliminated all that and given the outside man a chance ?...
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