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...‘Perfect scenario’ Those look like V-shaped projections, Andrew Glenn thought to himself....
...Xerox wants to give HP’s board its walking papers We’re all guilty of overusing the David v Goliath trope but in the case of Xerox and HP, it really does apply....
...J Timothy Richards, chief executive of Vue International, wrote an open letter to the Academy to express his concern at their decision-making process....
...He failed to publicly rebuke John Stumpf, then chief executive and chairman of Wells, in the aftermath of the fake accounts fiasco that ultimately cost Mr Stumpf his job....
...Design is critical, and there are multiple solutions to the 3D jigsaw puzzle of business class: yin-yang; staggered herringbone; “stacked-V”. Jamco’s DoveTail seat has a layout like parquet flooring....
...Google Express, the company’s shopping and delivery programme, has just launched a $95 annual membership with free delivery of household items in seven US cities....
...How you express that in a quarterly report, of course, is another question....
...Grupo Gigante, which operates Mexican units of companies including Panda Express and Petco, made the offer for the 50 per cent of Office Depot de Mexico it does not already own for $690.5m earlier this year...
...Tucked away in a corner of Sheremetyevo Airport’s Terminal E, just to the right of Burger King, is an unassuming metal door which leads to the V-Express capsule hotel....
...Indeed, it boasts an impressive list of clients, among them Google, Cisco, JP Morgan Chase, Travelocity, Coca-Cola, LinkedIn, Moneygram, BBVA, National Geographic and American Express....
...We get that,” said John Stumpf, Wells Fargo chief executive, on a conference call announcing that the nation’s largest bank by market capitalisation had recorded a record $4.1bn quarterly profit....
...Panda Express doesn’t count.” Invisible class Mr Romney’s economic adviser, Greg Mankiw, as it happens, is a Harvard professor....
...VIP evenings are planned, with guests from American Express and others....
...The third crash involved a Bombardier Global Express jet landing in high winds near a golf resort in Nova Scotia....
...In keeping with the nameless spirit of their movement and to guard against lawsuits, they picked a uniform disguise – Guy Fawkes masks like those used in the movie V for Vendetta....
...V.G. Siddhartha is a reluctant interviewee. Initially rebuffing a request from the Financial Times, he politely e-mailed: “I don’t think I have got any great story at this time.”...
...Act V. Manhattan and Washington. The fool is exposed: his parcels are empty. He is banished. King Sandy, his reputation tarnished, is deposed....
...I’d say the George V for sheer over-the-topness and people-watching, lunch at Noura, a treat from Goyard and dinner at Ferdi....
...The super-large Gulfstream V/G500 went from $42m to $25.4m over the same period....
...Bank of America’s June charge-offs were close to 14 per cent and delinquencies – loans that have not been paid – were 1.9 per cent, exceeding the totals for Citigroup, JPMorgan, American Express, Capital...
...It sports 25 adapters to connect to the enterprise software suites of rivals such as Oracle and SAP, and supports Microsoft’s Hyper-V virtualisation software....
...The current recovery fits the pattern of bear market rallies in terms of volume and the “V” shape of the trough....
...He is the second financial leader in a week, after Bob Diamond of Barclays Capital, to express a desire to buy a US wealth-management group....
...The express delivery firm suffered a fall in second-quarter operating profit because of weaker demand in Europe....
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