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...Data from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation shows it remained at a rate of just 1.5 per cent at the end of the third quarter....
...Eric Young, founder of upscale Shanghai boutique Le Monde de SHC, said the problem was that Chinese consumers remained mostly unaware of Lanvin, which lacked a clear identity....
...The Goldman Sachs Trading Corporation, launched in 1928, was only one of a dizzying range of leveraged investment companies promoted by that bank and others as the roaring twenties roared....
...Among Sears’ largest trade creditors, according to court papers, are Whirlpool Corporation (owed $23m), Frigidaire ($19m) and Winia Daewoo ($15m)....
...On Thursday Blackstone announced it would ditch its tax-advantaged partnership structure and become a corporation, sending the company’s shares up 7.5 per cent....
...On the bright side: assets under management at Oz have stopped their freefall and are holding steady at around $32bn, while performance in its flagship master fund is up almost 1 per cent, outshining many...
...Ingenico (FT) China’s HNA in talks with Brookfield to sell Swissport International (FT) Broadcom-CA meal memo spurs US stock-fraud probe (BBG) BMW to raise stake in China JV to 75% in €3.6bn deal (FT) Sears...
...That group included such well-known names as Sears Holdings, JC Penney, HP Inc, CBS, Macy’s, Nordstrom, Motorola, IBM, Symantec, Xerox, Office Depot, VeriSign and Target Corporation....
...I was working as a sales manager at a media corporation and looking at the forecasts of media use by consumers....
...Lists of the companies that occupy the lowest rating rungs compiled by both Moody’s and S&P have swelled and include well-known groups such as Sears, Getty Images, Advanced Micro Devices, California Pizza...
...That contrast is a good reminder that for-profit corporations are generally better at following public opinion than leading it....
...All of this means that reit conversions are far from a panacea for companies with large property holdings — as CCA discovered in 1999 when it previously converted to a reit....
...Shares of Nordstrom declined 5 per cent to $65.11, Macy’s fell 1 per cent to $57.45, Sears fell 2 per cent to $35.16 and Dillard’s, which also reported results, fell 8 per cent to $106.11....
...It used to be the convention that a corporation had to take ownership or majority tenancy in a building in order to name it after itself....
...Sears Holding Corporation, K-Mart’s parent company, said on Friday that the security breach probably started in early September but it had not yet discovered how many customers may have been affected....
...Todd Sears, a former banker who started Out on the Street, says: “Having great policies isn’t enough....
...Mr Duffy said the measure had brought CME in line with other corporations operating in the state. “We pay all rates for the business we do in Illinois,” he said....
...Some analysts noted with approval that the proposals wrap in parent holding companies of investment companies, which in some ways mirrors the US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation’s method....
...Sears Holdings , parent company of the department store chain, was down 1.1 per cent to $82.55 as it reported that it would close 62 retail stores in the first half of the year to reduce expenses....
...Elsewhere, shares in Sears Holdings surged 9.5 per cent to $36.75 as an analyst suggested Edward Lampert, Sears’ chairman and a big shareholder, may take the troubled department store chain private, buying...
...Sears Holdings , which owns the KMart chain of pharmacies fell 1 per cent to $57.83 and Walgreen was up just 1 per cent to $32.79. Kellogg was another faller....
...Sears Holdings dropped 3.1 per cent to $70.03 after its Canadian namesake – in which it holds a 90 per cent stake – posted a loss of C$45.8m....
...Sears shares were down 8.2 per cent at $55.23....
...Since obtaining his MBA from Manchester Business School, he has worked as finance director for Grand Metropolitan and Sears, making his name with buy-outs such as Homebase, Odeon Cinemas, and Peacock....
...In the retail sector, Sears Holdings , the department store chain, jumped 6.4 per cent to $75.03 after forecasting that its fourth-quarter profit would be well ahead of analysts’ expectations....
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