Hints and tips:
...It is not hard to see why TI is so keen on the bird in its hand. The group is highly leveraged, with almost €26bn of net debt before adjusting for leases, or 4.4 times expected 2023 ebitda....
...Like Ajay Banga, the bank president, we are not keen on buzzwords....
...’Tis the season of charity and generosity, and I have a cause to sell you. The FT supports Flic, the Financial Literacy and Inclusion Campaign....
...The only potential disadvantage is the weight — all the extra reinforcement means they weigh 6.95kg per pair in 160cm-length (including bindings), compared to 5.76kg for a pair of Rossignol React R10 Ti...
...It’s a feeling she is keen to cultivate in fellow city-dwellers with her book, How to Grow Your Dinner without Leaving the House....
...As Shakespeare wrote in King Henry VIII, “And ‘tis a kind of good deed to say well: And yet words are no deeds.”...
...FT premium subscribers can click here to receive Due Diligence every day by email. ’Tis the season, earnings season....
...Ten days ago the world’s largest active oil tanker, the TI Europe, pulled into the Chinese port of Ningbo to deliver its cargo of more than 3m barrels of Middle Eastern crude....
...Apple accounted for 11 per cent of TI’s total revenues in 2015m according to Bloomberg data and the market has been keen to get a sense of how slowing iPhone sales could impact the company’s top and bottom...
...She joined Frac in 2008, keen to work in a public institution and with a team, after having worked in commercial galleries in London and Paris and as a freelance curator in Zurich....
...Would he be so keen to argue for building a logistics centre in Slough versus Munich if this is how the airport functioned?...
...Environmental awareness has also added to the appeal of the tipi – the name is derived from the Lakota language: ti “to dwell” and pi “used for”....
...Smiths Group lost a long-held reputation for acquisitive prowess with its £2bn takeover of TI group. Both Cookson and Invensys were forced into refinancing by rights issue....
...Italy’s banks are keen to recast their image but the participation of Intesa Sanpaolo – which helped bankroll TI’s holding chain in 2001 – and Mediobanca with its quasi-affiliate Generali, suggests that...
...Now Pirelli is presumably keen to show latest bidders AT&T and América Móvil, which have offered a 30 per cent premium to market price, that buying Olimpia brings control of TI....
...Telefónica is keen to avoid any political opposition to its investment in TI....
...Investors are keen to see Mr Kleinfeld restructure as fast as possible and believe the bribery scandal may increase his power. But this raises other concerns....
...Mr von Pierer is keen to stick it out, believing resigning would seem tantamount to an admission of guilt....
...TI feels under pressure on the local network as regulators in Brussels and Italy are keen for former monopolists to separate those activities from their other business interests....
...(This sounds obvious but ’tis not always thus when you are the only woman at a table.) I had to point out that the vintage on the bottle was not the 2005 advertised but 2004....
...It is the minutes of those rate-setting meetings that have been most eagerly anticipated of late - keen as traders are to perceive a signal that the Fed’s steady tightening may be coming to an end....
...He is keen to show that he is managing the chain of companies effectively, steadily overcoming the structure and debt he inherited when he paid what was seen as a very high premium for control of TI in 2001...
...- ‘Tis the season of meeja parties. Diary enjoyed mingling with other journos at Channel 4’s drinks party last week, but was slightly disconcerted by the absence of the broadcaster’s execs....
...TI soon found Austria would never let it take control of its telephone company. The Italian group sold half its Telekom Austria stake two years ago and the rest this year....
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