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...For a dull transporter of oil and gas, Tulsa-based Williams has experienced a traumatic few years....
...“We may even be going beyond what emerging markets do” to protect economic interests, says Saikat Chaudhuri, executive director of Wharton School’s Mack Institute for Innovation Management....
...The company is also likely to reveal more details about its content pipeline during an analyst call with senior management....
...UK LFL sales growth was +3.9% ex splits (+3.0% 3Q) and +2.6% inc splits (+1.4% 3Q). RoI LFL sales growth was -1.0% ex splits and -2.4% inc splits....
...“It was discovered by Katie Martin, she manages Vomiting Camel Capital Asset Management.” Oh my god....
...now more than 400 factors, leading John Cochrane, a former president of the American Finance Association who is now a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stamford University, to warn of a “factor zoo...
...Corvex Management, which owns more than 4 per cent of Williams shares, wants the company’s senior management to engage with Enterprise Products, according to people familiar with the hedge fund....
...In October private equity firm Apollo Global Management and hedge fund Highbridge Capital Management backed Miller Energy Resources, a Texas-based driller — but only after Miller had filed for bankruptcy...
...Apollo Global Management, Leon Black’s private equity group, subsequently bought CKX, and is now in the process of selling the Elvis estate....
...Lo-Q recently bought Accesso, a US-based electronic ticketing company, whose clients include zoos, concert halls, sports events and venues such as Seattle’s Space Needle....
...But any company wanting to be the biggest, fastest follower requires its management to make consistently brilliant bets on the next big thing....
...“It’s a no brainer,” said Channing Smith, who manages $1bn in assets at Tulsa-based Capital Advisors and recently put 18 per cent of his equity in a Treasuries fund....
...“Participants didn’t want to be short last week, because the risk was to the upside in case the summit came up with a game-changing announcement,” said Channing Smith of Tulsa-based Capital Advisors....
...The move to bring in Itochu as well as two smaller buy-out funds – NGP Energy Capital Management and Crestview Partners – underlined how some of the world’s largest private equity groups such as KKR are...
...The data-storage products maker blamed “unexpected weakness” at nine large accounts, and some analysts gave management the benefit of the doubt....
...“US corporate earnings continue to confound the market with their strength,” said Doug Cote, chief investment strategist at ING Investment Management, who also said Wall Street was “in for an explosive rally...
...“There’s a limit to how far any rally can go without a resolution to the crisis in Europe,” said Channing Smith of Tulsa-based Capital Advisors....
...Breedon has just won the contract to fill the meerkat enclosure at London Zoo with special gravel....
...That “zoo” is populated by around 1,000 printers, serving 8,000 people across 22 different sites in the UK. Some of the devices are ancient, some are unreliable....
...“I had to build the management company, and they had to build the production organisation that makes the records and does the tours....
...The struggle has been intensified by the death of a Cintas worker in 2007 who was dragged into an industrial dryer at a laundry in Tulsa....
...Pearson to sell US data management business Pearson, the educational publisher and owner of the Financial Times, has agreed the $225m (£167m) sale of its data management business, which designs and makes...
...According to the PNC Christmas Price Index, kept by PNC Wealth Management, a Philadelphia fund manager, this is no illusion....
...It is something of a mash-up of maps, contact management and hooks into photo sites such as Flickr, put together by a team of four in Boston....
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