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...Gideon Rachman sorts through what is fact and what is fiction in a discussion with Judith Kelley, Dean of the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University, and Edward Luce, the FT’s US national editor...
...Former Australian prime minister Tony Abbott, a controversial rightwinger and climate change sceptic, is set to become a UK trade adviser....
...“This is a very political move in Australia,” says Neil Beveridge at Sanford C Bernstein. “It’s a function of very disjointed energy policy.”...
...“You are adding a very very challenged business to a very challenged business,” said Tony Shiret of Haitong securities....
...However, Jamie Merriman, analyst at Sanford Bernstein, last week cut her forecast of underlying sales this year....
...When Tony Ball stepped down as Sky’s chief executive in 2004, investors were furious that he would be paid nearly £11m not to compete with the company for two years....
...● Roche of Switzerland has appointed a senior academic as its new head of early stage research, naming John Reed, chief executive of the Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute in the US, to an expanded...
...Tony Zook, global commercial vice-president, has also been cited as a possible replacement, although he comes from a similar marketing background to Mr Brennan....
...“Alcoa has significant upstream facilities in Australia, Canada and Brazil, and dollar strength has had a meaningful impact on its spending,” said Tony Rizzuto, at Dahlman Rose....
...Toni Sacconaghi Tony Sacconaghi is the senior research analyst covering US IT hardware stocks at Sanford C. Bernstein....
...As Tony Shiret, analyst at Credit Suisse, says: “Retailers tend to get most of their money at Christmas while the cost base is spread across the year.”...
...FILM The Age of Movies: Selected Writings of Pauline Kael, edited by Sanford Schwartz, Library of America, RRP£25, 828 pages Prepare to be dazzled....
...“These firsts are indicative of the opportunity,” says Sanford Panitch, president of Fox International Productions....
...Sanford Bernstein estimates the incident could cost BP $8bn before tax. Nomura suggests a tentative $10bn....
...Tony Hayward, BP’s chief executive, insisted on Friday that BP was not to blame. “The rig was owned and operated by Transocean. It was their people and their processes that were working,” he said....
...But as Tony Sacconaghi of Sanford C Bernstein pointed out on today’s analyst call, the company’s guidance for its first fiscal quarter still implies a sequential revenue decline of 3 per cent – and that...
...However, BP chief executive Tony Hayward is not seeing any green shoots at the moment....
...Neil McMahon, an analyst at Sanford Bernstein, the investment group, says higher taxes mean that non-OECD production is likely to be less profitable than in the companies’ traditional core areas in the OECD...
...Tony Hayward, BP’s chief executive, was recently compelled to reassure investors that his company’s dividend programme was sound. He is not alone....
...Tony Foster, investment director at Scottish & Widows Investment Partners, one of the top 10 shareholders, said: “Investors want a better sense of what’s going on at the company . . ....
...Tony Hayward at BP and Jeroen van der Veer at Royal Dutch Shell have a great deal in common....
...The struggle for control of TNK-BP is the first big test for Tony Hayward’s leadership of BP....
...That was the announcement of the departure of Tony Froggatt as chief executive. John Dunsmore, 48, a former graduate trainee of the group, is to succeed Mr Froggatt as chief executive next month....
...Neil McMahon of Sanford Bernstein said the important issue for BP was not the third-quarter results, but its operational performance in the months to come....
...‘Consistency’ was the word used repeatedly by Tony Hayward on Tuesday to describe the change he wanted to bring about in BP....
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