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...The new products follow Ark Invest’s purchase last year of Rize ETF, since rebranded Ark Invest Europe, in a bet on European demand for thematic ETFs, such as Wood’s....
...Asked if Calpers was considering voting against Woods’ re-election as board chair at the company’s annual meeting on May 29, Cohen said “correct”....
...They’d be forgiven for pushing for Wood to return to relative anonymity — this time as a private company. nathalie.thomas@ft.com...
...Engineering services company John Wood Group, which is facing pressure to consider selling itself or move its listing to the US, said its first-quarter revenue declined 6 per cent from a year earlier, in...
...FTSE 250 engineering services company John Wood Group has rejected an unsolicited takeover bid from Dar Al-Handasah (Sidara) as it faces activist investor pressure to consider a sale or move its listing...
...John Wood Group, the FTSE 250 engineering services company, should either move its listing to the US or consider a sale, activist investor Sparta Capital Management said on Tuesday....
...Today’s letter instead makes the argument that Wood is “the lowliest valued company in the sector”, so long as you choose to ignore the lowlier ones....
...When a UK company’s share price goes south, simply blame the London market....
...In April, chancellor Jeremy Hunt announced an attempt to boost investment in London-listed companies by increasing the tax-free allowance for owning UK equities....
...John Wood Group, the FTSE 250 engineering services company, should either move its listing to the US or consider going private, said activist investor Sparta Capital Management....
...At the same time, the size of the bond market has ballooned, because of government deficits and more companies turning to fixed-income markets to borrow (also partly because of tougher regs on banks)....
...Italian households’ total sovereign bond holdings have risen sharply from €150bn at the end of 2021 to €335bn as of late February, Bank of Italy data shows, now accounting for just under 6 per cent of Italian...
...But to expand production, the US company issued a large amount of debt as the cost of running its wood pellet processing plants increased....
...Today I’ll make a couple of observations on that score and then Thursday’s Trade Secrets column will look in detail at Brussels’ apparent new get-tough regime towards Chinese companies in Europe....
...Despite the government steps, rural banks still bought Rmb400bn worth of sovereign bonds between March 1 and April 16, secondary trading data from China’s interbank bond market showed....
...The company plans to store wood chopped down from California’s forests in vaults designed to contain greenhouse gases....
...However, in the bond market, the biggest weightings are often the problem children, such as overleveraged companies, low-coupon mortgage securities, and countries that borrow too much debt....
...Still, if you want proof that the bleating about London has gone too far, take a look at Wood Group....
...Darren Woods received salary, stock options and a bonus amounting to $36.9mn in 2023, the US’s biggest oil company reported in a securities filing on Thursday....
...Even junk-rated companies, which aren’t considered the safest borrowers, aren’t considered to be distressed until their yields reach 10 percentage points above the risk-free benchmark....
...Haleon has agreed to sell lip balm brand Chapstick to private equity firm Yellow Wood for $430mn in a move to simplify its portfolio....
...The California Public Employees’ Retirement System has named a former top executive at the New Zealand sovereign wealth fund to direct the largest US public pension plan’s investments following the abrupt...
...The company has said it plans to keep servicing this debt despite the sovereign restructuring....
...“This company made a bet essentially that the price of wood pellets would stay high for quite a while,” he said, adding that last year’s mild winter hurt energy prices, including Enviva’s wood pellets....
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