Hints and tips:
...chief Fred Goodwin on the fly to see if he’d finance a deal....
...In fact, Wednesday marked the first anniversary of the Glazer family’s strategic review. How did you celebrate? Let us know at scoreboard@ft.com....
...That suggests a global supply shortage of 2.2mn b/d in the third quarter. “This is a very significant global deficit,” said Bjarne Schieldrop, chief commodities analyst at SEB....
...: I’d advise against QuickBooks adding a question that targets its new niche: Are you planning to collect billions in crypto and fiat on the premise of executing trades for customers, while instead swapping...
...“From a risk/reward perspective, it’s a more attractive environment since there are real strategic rationales you can underwrite as an arb,” said one executive at a merger arb fund....
...B&N grew from a single store in New York in 1971 to a national chain under the ownership of Leonard Riggio and his family. But both companies were beaten by Amazon....
...I want to get a career at college and work in construction. I like skyscrapers. I’d like to [operate] a crane.” I ask him what motivates him....
...The manufacturing and construction sectors are both likely to take a hit too....
...“When I bought this business, I’d never have dreamt of opening a store in a place like that,” Simon Arora, chief executive of B&M, says of the new Tunbridge Wells store....
...That is equivalent to a 89p increase in NAV share on one deal alone. Another portfolio company, Artios, has announced a strategic collaboration with pharmaceutical company Merck....
...Samantha Hoffman, senior analyst at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, says social control is a priority for Beijing....
...It’d only be worse if they owned an airline as well.”...
...In the basement, a stone cellar unearthed during construction is now a cinema and games room. And over the road is a charming three-bedroom cottage, ideal for families....
...Instead, I will increase investment in R&D to £22bn a year. That is the fastest and the largest increase in R&D spend ever....
...US net oil imports, which peaked at about 13m b/d in 2005, have dropped to about 2.4m b/d this year....
...b/d....
...The industry likes to argue (a lot) about whether ordinary investors should be invested in passive funds or in active funds (I’d go for a bit of both)....
...But since then it has maintained production at a steady 10.2m b/d, according to data provided to JODI....
..., the arts, R&D and patents, and retraining our work force....
...The B, C and D blocks, for senior officers, had 325-square-yard plots, and E block had plots of 867 square yards....
...d before adding higher supplies from Iran after this week’s nuclear deal....
...Urs Rohner, the bank’s chairman, said the appointment of Mr Thiam should not be taken as a strategic shift by the bank....
...multi-faceted situation”, according to a 2014 report by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, a government think-tank....
...Oil production has more than doubled from about 800,000 barrels a day in 2001 to 1.6m b/d today, much of which is shipped to China....
...Many argue that the solution would be to establish a large network with country-specific competence, which is an area in which few family offices can hope to compete. ——————————————- Lorne Baring: B Capital...
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