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...A shrinking domestic market is forcing Japan Inc to look for growth overseas. Ultra-low interest rates back home have further whetted the appetite for deals....
...It’s holding up really well because inventory levels are low, because you have a 3.9 per cent unemployment rate....
...Direct Supplier Financing We also have arrangements with suppliers of handset inventory that allow us to extend the stated payment terms by up to 90 days at an additional cost to us (variable rate extension...
...Victoria plc acquired the trade, inventory and debtors of Hanover Carpets (“HCP”) from a UK partnership on 26 January 2021, with one of the partners joining the group as managing director of HFL....
...The China Association of Automobile Manufacturers warned in a statement last week that the sector now faced “sharply rising inventories and mounting operational pressure” with the slump in sales worsening...
...Output was down 11 per cent month on month as semiconductor inventories surged more than 20 per cent from a year earlier....
...According to two people with direct knowledge of the situation, the Chengdu government has already started to inventory CHJS’s leftover equipment and intellectual property....
...It was subsequently amended to correct the sales growth of Leapmotor and the unit sales of Ora. ©2023 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...The report by commercial property adviser Cushman & Wakefield found that 330mn sq ft of office space — roughly equivalent to all the office inventory in the Washington metropolitan area — would be made redundant...
...“It sounds irresponsible for the Games organising committee to dissolve itself without dealing with unsold inventories, even though the Games value sustainable development goals,” Yamamoto said....
...Kingfisher’s market reach looks more saturated, and its high and increased level of inventories — free cash flow fell by 86 per cent as result of an inventory rebuild programme — complicates the picture....
...Alphaville appreciates the fertile shared ground between finance and nerd culture....
...The third is that companies are sitting on inventory and so there isn’t the same throughput.”...
...Laura Crossen, Bed Bath & Beyond’s senior vice-president of finance and its chief accounting officer, will become interim chief financial officer, the US company said in a filing on Tuesday....
...They have the largest buyside, and they are, of course, one of the largest sellers of inventory in the market, vis-à-vis Google Search and YouTube....
...Read more about the Bed, Bath & Beyond finance chief here....
...“We believe it will take one to two quarters for the smartphone and PC customers to burn off the excess inventory before starting a rebuild,” Needham analysts wrote in a recent note....
...This is the kind of finance story that makes journalists and casual observers feel wonderfully smug....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on October 27 2022. ©2022 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...But Alphabet finance chief Ruth Porat called the company’s second-quarter performance “solid”, noting that on a constant currency basis revenues were up 16 per cent....
...But it finances its own homes through debt, leaving it vulnerable to rising interest rates....
...Simo has positioned Instacart as a friend to existing grocery store players and has pledged to never carry its own inventory, unlike its rivals....
...Where does the inventory come from? We have a team that identifies assets that would be suitable for the platform....
...Used jet inventories are at historic lows, according to Jefferies, with just 861 aircraft for sale in October, half the number available a year previously....
...“This will not be an issue next year at all,” said Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan Chase chief executive, at the Institute of International Finance conference this week....
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