Hints and tips:
...Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ), the C$400bn global investment group, told my colleague Josephine Cumbo that the UK stood out because of its “pro business” stance....
...There’s not much precedent to support the idea that Shina et al can walk away based on a MAC clause: WPP was forced against its will to buy Tempus in 2001, Guy Hands couldn’t scrap a bid for East Surrey...
...Maybe we will discover that many managers were smart enough to sell out of Apple, Valeant, Williams et al before their shares tanked....
...set the trend for filching star designers, not to mention British designers, back in the day (with Galliano, McQueen, et al)....
...The group’s explanation is that the deals have been struck between the bankers and a Georgia-registered banking subsidiary. Mr Gilauri et al have normal contracts with the UK-based holding company....
...First and foremost is that Lagardère’s holding is now combined with the French government’s 15 per cent EADS stake to create a 22.5 per cent voting block, which the aircraft maker desperately wants to reduce...
...Why would the Chinese, Russians, Brazilians et al make the same mistake when it is very clearly in the public domain?...
...Ratings triggers, forced sales, systemic cliff risk, et al. Still a feature in some eurozone periphery bonds, despite the rally. Portugal for instance....
...Whatever Mr Cameron et al might think, restraint is not a word in most bankers’ vocabularies. Patrick Jenkins is the FT’s Banking Editor Patrick.Jenkins@ft.com...
...Messrs Cable, Darling et al say they don’t care! They should. Moving key staff (100 or so) plus capital is relatively inexpensive....
...No, not the question he perennially gets asked about, why he let Lehman Brothers fail, while he rescued Goldman Sachs, et al....
...Asking Hank Paulson, Timothy Geithner et al, who have the ear of the bankers, to oversee them, is akin to asking the fox to guard the chicken coop....
...Had the central bank allowed the failure of Long Term Capital Management to run its course, Lehman, Bear Stearns, et al would still be here....
...The case, Gallus et al. v....
...As for Japan’s deteriorating economic climate – not to mention the downwards direction of the Nikkei average – the situation may well become “more difficult” and Sugiyama et al may have to change their minds...
...Ansari, Executive Chairman and CEO, Dubai International Capital 1000: Ken Rosen, Professor Emeritus, University of California 1030: Stephen King, Group Chief Economist, HSBC Holdings 1040: Nandan Nilekani...
...After spending billions of dollars at the wrong price for shares in Merrill Lynch, Barclays et al, Singapore’s state-backed investment body Temasek says it still “sees value” in banking stocks in the US...
...There can be little doubt that Eden et al will achieve or better the top-of-the-band pricing of $18.50-a-share....
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