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...Arrival is merging with Kensington Capital Acquisition Corp V, paying a huge premium in order to add $300mn to its balance sheet. It is a desperate move that is unlikely to trigger a Spac revival....
...Mr Tucker indicated that economic recovery would come more quickly thanks to recent breakthroughs in vaccine development — although expecting a “V-shaped” recovery remained “beyond stupid”....
...Appearing via video link from a locked down Madrid, Ms Botin said those estimates were based on a “V-shaped” recession — a sharp shock followed by a rapid recovery, but stressed this was only one possible...
...PJ TUCKER: It's going to be interesting to see how the companies start to try to monetize. You see now, they're putting out more pairs, flooding the market with it....
...(FT) Dockwork ers v robots Dockworkers in Los Angeles are making a last stand against the automation of lucrative port jobs....
...Smart reads David v Goliath Large consumer goods companies are starting to feel the impact of their smaller, more innovative rivals....
...The biggest activist fight — Nelson Peltz v Procter & Gamble — was only recently settled, two months after a shareholder vote....
...Bombarded Day two of the Bombardier v Boeing tariff scandal and attention has turned on the British government’s motivation to fight back against proposed US action against the Canadian company....
...AT&T’s acquisition of Time Warner and Bayer’s purchase of Monsanto) that are still pending approval from the competition watchdog....
...(BBC) Video of the day Google v Apple, round 2 As Google again draws level with Apple as the world’s largest company, John Authers looks at the historic performance of companies once they have become the...
...Recently, their targets have included a growing number of Chinese companies....
...Holly Tucker and Sophie Cornish notonthehighstreet.com British Tucker and Cornish founded notonthehighstreet in 2006. Nine years later, sales are nearing £100m....
...He was recently commissioned by Royal Doulton to produce a set of plates for the company....
...To Arthur’s energetic, hand-wagging stage direction, I did Crispin Crispian from Henry V, or “All The World’s a Stage” in the living room while my mother fried the gefilte fish....
...Better-than-expected data from the US and Europe, not to mention bullish growth figures from China and India, have provided ample ammunition to those who believe that the recovery will be V-shaped....
...sunny.tucker@ft.com...
...“The global recession is likely to be … a prolonged one, not a V-shape, not a U-shape, more an L-shape....
...In the west, glass-fibre-reinforced plastics, developed by Monsanto to protect radar equipment on US military aircraft, were re-worked into moulded furniture designed by Charles and Ray Eames for Herman...
...A leading executive of Temasek, Singapore’s state investment agency, is the latest senior dealmaker in Asia to resign to start a China-focused private equity fund....
...However, it was hardly a classic David v Goliath battle, given that the victor was Citigroup, the US banking giant, which is no stranger to struggles with regulators across the world....
...Kingdom Holding also owns the Hotel George V, Paris, and has real estate and banking interests across the world....
...“And during that first Henry V we were saying that we needed a name....
...The bank has hired V....
...Thanks to deregulation, Indian companies can also borrow cheaply on international debt markets, while booming local exchanges provide another source of capital. K.V....
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