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...Separate walkouts will happen at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Trust in south London and the Yorkshire Ambulance Trust after Unite union members rejected their latest pay offer....
...The most colourful lines came from John Ray III, FTX’s court-appointed chief executive, who trashed SBF’s management in a lengthy testimony before Congress....
...Leah P Hollis, a senior research associate at Rutgers University, focusing on workplace bullying, is similarly sceptical of paper promises....
...Alvarez & Marsal’s Thompson suggested that Beijing’s focus in such situations would be “individuals first”....
...In 2015 alone, its international assets ballooned by more than 300 per cent, according to S&P....
...It was a shift from the more bullish sentiment seen on Monday, when the S&P 500 climbed 7 per cent for its best day in a fortnight....
...There were unexpected delights: the hushed, bittersweet narrative of “Beeswing” with Alistair Anderson on squeezebox; Loudon Wainwright III romping through “The Swimming Song” with Thompson on guitar; Teddy...
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...“There’s a decent-sized gap that’s opened up between Tullow’s latest guidance and what we were led to believe was possible,” said Thomas Martin at Numis, who covers the stock....
...TUI has the potential to return to 2019 customer volumes relatively soon aided by Thomas Cook business still out there somewhere....
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...That result for the final three months of last year was also “weaker than some of the group’s main peers”, Citi’s Thomas Singlehurst wrote in a research note....
...Separately, Bill Thompson has joined the firm as a senior managing director and co-CEO of its private capital advisory practice....
...Interior minister Thomas de Maizière has pledged that the new ID card will bring “improvements, control and order”....
...AstraZeneca reports that Benralizumab, an important new anti-asthma drug, has achieved good results in two Phase III trials, the tests that generally precede an application for marketing approval....
...Co-Founder and CEO, On Device Research Ambarish Mitra Founder and CEO, Blippar Andrew McLoughlin Founder, Huddle; and Partner, SoftTech VC Andrew Jervis Founder and CEO, ClickMechanic Andrew P....
...Most major Chinese banks have existing tier-1 capital adequacy ratios of at least 9.5 per cent, according to CLSA, meeting Basel III requirements....
...After a choppy session, the S&P 500 equity index settled 0.1 per cent down from Monday’s record close, although it did reach an all-time intraday peak of 2,074.21 shortly after the start of trade....
...A report by S&P this year estimated the gap between global infrastructure needs and available public sector funds at about $500bn a year....
...Harold “Terry” McGraw III, chairman of McGraw Hill Financial, which owns S&P, said that the company would emerge “bigger, better and stronger” because of the crisis....
...Judge Thomas P Griesa has come down very hard on the idea of Argentina swapping its restructured bonds out of New York law into local law, in order to avoid paying holdouts alongside them....
...In the US financials have been among the best performing sectors on the S&P 500 for much of 2013....
...The S&P 500 closed up 1.5 per cent at 1,636, its strongest performance since January (Bloomberg). The Dow rose 1.2 per cent. The US concluded that chemical weapons have been used in Syria....
...The shares fell by ½p, or 2 per cent, to close at 22 ¾p....
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