Hints and tips:
...Ineos is now vying with Sheikh Jassim bin Hamad al-Thani, the Qatari businessman, to buy Manchester United from the Glazer family....
...The second is an article on Anglo-Greek wrangling over the return of Parthenon Marbles hoarded by the British Museum, written by George Parker et al....
...al, with just $9bn on legacy oil and gas....
...(Incidentally, for my money, Cronenberg’s scuffed aesthetic has dated at least a little better than the gleaming postmodernism of Neo and Trinity et al.)...
...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...
...Per Starr et al., a 10 per cent increase in the number of non-competes leads to 6 per cent lower wages in states that enforce the agreements versus those that do not....
...“Uncertainty around Homebase, Poundworld et al presents opportunity for B&M from both a property and a capacity withdrawal perspective....
...Nor has Britain seen the emergence of any new production companies to match Working Title, the Universal-backed but proudly British outfit behind Four Weddings, Bridget Jones, Darkest Hour et al, or independent...
...Official guidance is required on whether Gareth Bale et al were expressing confidence in the UK’s future as a free trader, or were just better at kicking a ball around....
...V: Oh Lord, grant us success in this, our mission. Or, at the least, a favourable write-up in the Daily Telegraph. In the name of Al Gore, the Oiled Pelican and the Proxy Voting Form, Amen. C: Amen....
...(Financial Times) BP accused of intimidating spill claimants: Lawyers representing claimants seeking compensation for the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster have accused BP of “hollow intimidation tactics”...
...But Akbar Al Baker, Qatar Airways’ chief executive, this month said his airline was not interested in buying the Bankia stake....
...That’s clearly what AAR expects Sechin et al to do, which is why it is more than happy to bow out at the right time. For those in the know, that leaves the scorecard AAR 2: Igor Sechin 0....
...Mr Gilauri et al have normal contracts with the UK-based holding company. This two-tier system may just about satisfy the letter of the UK’s Corporate Governance Code....
...A similar 2009 study by Mikael Höök et al. found a production-weighted average decline rate of 5.5 percent per year. Other estimates have ranged as high as 8 percent....
...Hussain al-Shahristani, Iraq’s former oil minister and now deputy prime minister, acknowledged the concerns....
...Weekend headlines from the FT and other UK media:* From The FT, - Duncan Smith outlines welfare-to-work plan - Regus drops Business Exchange conditions - Tears over Sir Stuart Rose’s check-out...
...But if Gorillaz’s dancey-yet-doleful hybrid of pop, rap, reggae et al is better indoors than out, the real difference between then and now is that the ship’s captain is visibly at the helm (although ditching...
...David Smith, London TF: Around two-third of revenues from FTSE All Share companies are derived from outside the UK....
...So, Bernanke et al are now going to be increasingly targeting longer-term interest rates as a means to revive growth, mitigate double-dip risks and avoid a potentially destabilizing deflationary experience...
...“HH Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan” = Your Highness, Excellency, Sir. “Core Group” (e.g....
...UPDATE The rebels are still hoping that Caroline Flint (a friend of Blears, Smith et al) will resign as Europe minister to maintain the pressure on Gordon Brown....
...Nick Hornby et al followed. Davies deserves this reissue under a new title....
...And luckily John Varley, Bob Diamond et al were offering debt rather than equity – shares in Barclays were off another 7.4 per cent at the close on Wednesday at 224p....
...Back to cov-lite loans – though we really need Goldman et al here to answer some of these questions. There is, claims one of the panel, some confusion about cov-lites....
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