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...Thales figures include civil businesses in avionics & space, and exclude disposed transport business from 2021. Rheinmetall figures from 2021 include orders & other agreements....
...Shares in Atos, which said S&P’s move would have a “negligible” impact on its interest expenses at roughly €6mn a year, fell more than 6 per cent on Tuesday morning....
...Talking of economics, we have a lot of central bankers giving speeches this week, continuing 2024’s ongoing debate on when interest rates can fall....
...Incremental progress has also been made in domestic alternatives for C919’s foreign suppliers, such as aluminium-lithium alloys, ultra-high strength steel carbon fibres and some avionics components....
...Juice said the F-16 had better modern sensors, avionics and weaponry than any of the planes in Ukraine’s fleet, and could be used with missiles that have a longer range than enemy fire, helping to counter...
...Another challenge for Comac is that the C919 is all but entirely dependent on western technology, including engines and avionics, for the jet....
...EU, January retail sales data Johan Svanström becomes Rightmove chief executive, succeeding Peter Brooks-Johnson who retires South Korea, February consumer price index (CPI) inflation rate data UK: S&...
...Monday Eurozone, France, Germany, Japan, UK, US: S&P Global/Sips flash composite (manufacturing and services) purchasing managers’ index (PMI) data Results: Heidrick & Struggles Q3, Hyundai Motor Q3, Pearson...
...“key organisational actor[s] in climate politics”....
...Companies The earnings season will be in full swing over the next seven days with 200 S&P 500 companies reporting results in the US and many others doing likewise in Europe....
...Ocado Retail — the joint venture with M&S — reported a 10 per cent increase in revenues for the quarter to the start of March, even before the coronavirus hit....
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...A deal will combine Raytheon’s operations in missile defence and precision weapons with those of UTC’s Collins Aerospace, a maker of cockpit avionics and the Pratt & Whitney (P&W) aero-engines division....
...Buying that lot out at par would be 0.17 per cent of HS2’s current estimated cost of £78bn. It makes sense, sort of!...
...S&P 500 futures triggered the limit-down circuit breakers at about 5am GMT, the index having bounced 6 per cent in the regular session....
...Coty was the S&P 500’s worst performer last year, plummeting 65 per cent....
...Its Pratt & Whitney division provides the engine while the recently formed Collins Aerospace unit brings the cockpit avionics....
...Elon Musk bites back at SEC contempt claim (FT) Metro Bank to raise £350m as regulators probe accounting error (FT) Thales chief Patrice Caine rules out move for Alstom (FT) Fiat Chrysler to invest $4.5bn...
...As he prepared for Apollo 11’s lift-off, Neil Armstrong thought he had a 10 per cent chance of dying during the mission, and a 50 per cent chance of not walking on the Moon....
...Marks and Spencer has hired Justin King as a non-executive director. He was more recently chief executive at J Sainsbury’s. Before that he worked at M&S and Asda....
...Campbell shares are down nearly a fifth this year. And while Hershey's are up a tenth, the S&P 500 is up a fifth....
...Before that he held the same position at Thales Canada, part of the French defence group. He has also worked at the UK ministry of defence....
...Comac and Avic, the other state-owned group that owns a stake in Comac, have been helped in their development by a series of acquisitions of US aircraft and avionics companies, which were highlighted by...
...Defence contractor Babcock is looking forward to a more productive 2018, though, by teaming up with Thales, Harland & Wolff, designer BMT and Ferguson Marine to bid for construction of the UK government’...
...Gemalto, which is in the process of being acquired by French defence contractor Thales, has a number of sites in the UK and is expected to make the new passports at factories in Fareham and Heywood....
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