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...poem by Walt Whitman; Molly Joyce’s haunting “East River,” to Christopher Oscar Peña’s text; and “Lumee’s Dream” by Ellen Reid, libretto by Roxie Perkins, from their Pulitzer Prize-winning opera p r i s...
...Last year she won the Pulitzer Prize for Music for her opera p r i s m, which also won the Music Critics Association of North America’s award for best new opera....
...Established groups such as Rockwell or ABB trade at 22 and 15 times respectively, according to S&P Global....
...The high register resembles her earliest singing style, before she crafted a new name from Lana Turner and Ford’s Del Rey sedan car, and made her breakthrough with 2012’s Born to Die....
...We initiate as buyers of Emerson, Legrand, Rexel, Rockwell, Schneider and Siemens....
...Next comes Hitler Youth training, with Sam Rockwell, Rebel Wilson and Alfie Allen providing hilarious instruction. But then Waititi stops with the offensive comedy, and so comes the downfall....
...Hype hung heavy in the air: Oscar S. Schafer, the board chairman, asserted that we would soon recognise the Philharmonic as the greatest orchestra in the world and van Zweden as the greatest conductor....
...Rating agencies have been pushing UTX to work off debt in the wake of its $30bn acquisition of Rockwell Collins, which last year prompted rating downgrades by Moody’s and S&P Global....
...Telecommunications services, which include a number of big tech stocks, was down 1.1 per cent, and the worst performer in the S&P 500....
...Persistent underperformance by UTC’s shares relative to the S&P 500 index helped fuel the pressure for change at the company....
...She starts with exchange programmes and 1957’s “spectacular” Moscow International Youth Festival, which brought 34,000 foreigners to the capital....
...Over the past five years, UTC’s shares have risen by about 11 per cent, well behind the increase in the S&P 500 index of about 45 per cent....
...This week S&P knocked United Technologies down to a BBB+ from A- rating on the back of a material rise in debt leverage following its acquisition of Rockwell Collins....
...Over the past 10 years, Rockwell’s shares have risen 151 per cent, compared to a 27 per cent rise for Emerson, and a 67 per cent rise for the S&P 500....
...Shares were 3.2 per cent higher at a near-three-week high of $133.36, versus a 0.6 per cent advance for the benchmark S&P 500....
...That helped propel the S&P 500 to a slight 0.08 per cent gain, bringing it to 2,446.3 at the end of trading on Tuesday....
...“The most important part of this seems to be to slow down the transfer of technology to China,” said Christopher Lee, S&P Global’s lead China corporate specialist....
...S&P Global analysts reckon the equivalent figure for JAB’s purchase of Dr Pepper Snapple is nearly six times....
...Some of the broader contractors — such as Boeing and United Technologies, where defence is only a part of their business — dipped slightly, but L3 Technologies, Textron, Rockwell Collins and General Dynamics...
...Rockwell Collins did not respond to a request for comment....
...Rockwell shareholders will be offered $93.33 in cash and $46.67 in UTC stock, which will be subject to a 7.5 per cent collar based on UTC’s closing share price on August 22 of $115.69....
...By February 14, when 371 S&P 500 companies had reported earnings, 181 — almost half of them — mentioned Mr Trump, according to FactSet....
...Goldman Sachs and Santander sold debt with higher new issue premiums, while a handful of other groups decided against testing the market — Rockwell Collins delayed its debt sale despite holding marketing...
...Shares in Rockwell, a US-listed automation group, trade at 24 times forward earnings, a 20 per cent premium to ABB, according to S&P Global Markets. Cevian only owns 6 per cent of ABB....
...S&P 500 futures were up 0.4 per cent to 2,144.25, Dow futures were up 0.5 per cent to 18,147. Meanwhile, Nasdaq futures rose 0.6 per cent to 4,872.50....
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