Hints and tips:
...Earnings: Agricultural equipment manufacturer Deere and sneaker retailer Foot Locker report results....
...Corporate results The maker of the iconic green John Deere tractors reports quarterly earnings before the opening bell....
...She is dialling in from the house she has just moved into in Scottsdale, Arizona, with her new husband and her six-year-old daughter....
...The year after Arbus’s death, curator John Szarkowski at the Museum of Modern Art mounted a major retrospective, which broke all attendance records for a one-person show at the museum....
...The congressman also received the maximum legal donations of $5,000 each from the corporate PACs of companies including Comcast, John Deere and New York Life Insurance....
...The national insurance rise had already gone through. It had been passed as a health and social care levy, which people broadly bought into at the time....
...John Deere, meanwhile, could benefit from better satellite mapping for its robot lawnmowers and tractors. Oh, and to create things in space, you’ll probably need 3D printing....
...two weeks ago announced a merger with its insurance affiliate, Athene....
...The Zurich-headquartered group is a reinsurer, providing back-up coverage to other insurance companies....
...I see no signs of a fast, V-shaped recovery in the advanced world. There will also be big changes from the acceleration of the digital and automation revolution....
...However, John Lagemann, Deere’s senior vice-president of agriculture and turf, said that there were reasons for optimism....
...In another development, an emotional John Bercow announced he would step down as Speaker — but not until October 31....
...Yes, the numbers are bigger, but the shock, while not a V is shorter and sharper than that crash, and the pre-crisis fiscal situation was strong....
...Rodney Cook has quit as chief executive of Just Group after a turbulent year for the life insurance company....
...as at the John Deere headquarters in Moline, Illinois, and “Black Rock”, the CBS building on Manhattan’s Sixth Avenue....
...Rotork has the single largest exposure in our coverage (~50% v 60% in 2014 though)....
...Now he is launching a tool for insurance companies....
...The tie-up between the number two and three brokerage companies in the insurance industry would be a game changer but competition authorities (and rivals) are likely to have something to say about it....
...He also said the company was looking at “everything possible” for reducing its remaining insurance liabilities, a hangover from a business that GE withdrew from in 2004-06....
...That was the reaction of Tim Höttges, chief executive of Deutsche Telekom, to news that Vodafone had agreed on Wednesday to acquire a series of continental assets from John Malone’s Liberty Global....
...(FT) HK v SH The fight to attract IPOs used to play out between Hong Kong and Singapore but now the focus has moved northward....
...It sees global growth only in the sub-$400 handset market. 2011 Samsung, South Korean tech trendspotter 2012 Mahindra & Mahindra of India overtook John Deere of Illinois in 2012 to become the world’s...
...At the same time, poor results in its core commercial insurance underwriting business cost its previous CEO, Peter Hancock, his job (aided by the agitation of activist investors Carl Icahn and John Paulson...
...Regulators asked banks to check their exposure to HNA and three similar companies — Anbang Insurance, Dalian Wanda and Fosun International — in June....
...Senators Marco Rubio, Jeff Flake, Mike Lee and John McCain all tweeted their support for the pick, with Mr McCain adding: “Elections have consequences.”...
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