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...In the US, Griffin said he anticipated inflation would remain sticky unless the Federal Reserve was willing to accept higher unemployment to drive it down....
...Both companies also had sticky growth in their traditional business lines. Microsoft’s enterprise software revenue and Amazon’s US retail sales both grew 11 per cent in the first quarter....
...garnered interest from several private equity and strategic rivals in recent months, given that its expensive subscription-based business provides stable growth and its customer base is composed of very “sticky...
...Twitter lacks the kind of sticky recurring revenue from corporate clients that enterprise software groups often have....
...There is a reason that economists say nominal wages are “sticky”: people don’t like pay cuts, no matter how they are justified, and employers usually try to avoid them....
...But it can get you in a sticky spot. Say you buy a company in year two of 10 and do some major M&A with it in year four. By year seven you want out....
...“[If] there is less inclination to put money into sticky pots, there is less confidently there for circulation into the system.”...
...Carlos Abadi is managing director of DecisionBoundaries, LLC, a New York-based international financial advisory firm....
...All of the big five, save Amazon, have extraordinarily wide and sticky margins, and Amazon’s low margins hardly reflect a lack of competitive dominance....
...But there are few other young labels around with that kind of sticky currency....
...Carolyn Fairburn, newish CBI boss, talks about a “sticky floor” holding women back from taking senior executive roles....
...“IDC’s business has fairly attractive margins (40 per cent earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation) and a likely sticky customer profile but appears to be slower growing, with revenues...
...Which essentially means far out of the money options are sticky while near the money options, especially those to the upside, decay significantly....
...Lily Allen pimps her phone cover with sticky-backed jewels she sources online. But Moschino was a tipping point, legitimising kitsch phone covers on the catwalk....
...But managers that adopt a long-term strategy may be well positioned to gain access to sticky assets as alternatives become more familiar to plan sponsors and participants, he says....
...Most activists insist on relatively long-term lockups from their investors, or else have implicit commitments of loyalty from ‘sticky’ investors like pension funds and endowments....
...Liquidity is a fair weather phenomenon for those who don’t have permanent or at least sticky capital, especially when the markets are volatile....
...Given UK retail banks’ hunger for sticky deposit funding, Mr Hill – a Burger King franchise holder – may be flipping his investment before long. E-mail the Lex team confidentially...
...Gave, chief executive of MW GaveKal, which manages some of Marshall Wace’s funds, says: “Because we have to give up some of the revenue we will be less profitable than on the offshore side, but it’s more sticky...
...Cheap, sticky funds allow banks to get away with far more leverage than debt holders would normally accept. A low cost of debt, in turn, drags down a bank’s overall cost of capital....
...With Diageo a willing buyer, the sticky issue for the company is at what price LVMH would be a willing seller?...
...We happen to be a strong consortium that can also bring a brand as opposed to a brand trying to put sticky tape over a problem – that would be ridiculous.”...
...A lavatory product line might include toilet paper that doubles as sticky notes, or a shower-ready laptop. Now that would be progress....
...The vessel, sticky with red juice, was the same unwashed item I had used the previous evening – replaced by housekeeping. When I was checking out, another guest was asking to speak with management....
...And before the bill can be signed into law, sticky bilateral agreements with India must be worked out....
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