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...Bunzl, Howdens et al are generally smaller than the household names, and smaller companies can grow faster. Bunzl’s revenues, for example, have increased from £2.7bn to £11.8bn over the past 20 years....
...This is reflected in the £2.4bn that Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund and French private equity group Ardian have bid for Ferrovial’s 25 per cent stake....
...Of course, O’Neill et al were mostly talking about these countries as burgeoning economies with tons of potential. And many of these countries have indeed subsequently done well....
...More seriously, Goetzman et al argue that art price changes are largely a function of wealth concentration....
...Last month, NWBO and its Reddit fans were rebuffed by a Manhattan court, which granted Citadel et al’s motion to dismiss the case. But there was a sting in the tail....
...Productivity-hype bubbles are usually separated by at least 25 years and usually form at the end of a secular bull market, when aggregate profits are coming under pressure, say Garthwaite et al....
...Designs for continuing and returning productions of the long-playing classics – Miss Saigon, Les Mis et al – are widely available, but discerning fans will be able to distinguish between a Cats T-shirt from...
...The ETS price was more influenced by the gas the EU had been able to store, mild weather and weak economic growth in the region....
...Vinci, the French infrastructure and construction group, which bought 50.1 per cent of Gatwick in 2018, paid more. But that was for a pre-pandemic majority purchase....
...Al Thani over ownership of – and then complex exit payouts from – the Maybourne group of hotels (including Claridge’s and The Berkeley)....
...Social media noise can push token prices around (Tandon et al), but not as effectively as mainstream media coverage (Coulter)....
...Wherever possible lies should be told about classes of people (Republicans, elites, big business, the media, et al) not specific individuals....
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...As Wachowiak et al correctly note, the recent pressures militating in favour of greater cooperation (Ukraine, a second Trump presidency, fiscal constraints), “have not, to date, proven sufficient to overcome...
...The near-term financial burden in the base case is what China et al are objecting to. Here’s what the Zambian finance ministry said it had been told after the deal collapsed....
...The riskiest, most beat-up members of the group (KeyCorp, Comerica, Zions, Western Alliance et al) rose the most....
...It retells the established adventures of Odin, Thor, Loki et al, alongside brand-new ones set in the present day....
...But it takes short-sighted self-interest to a whole new level for Poland et al to threaten to smash apart the mechanisms of the single market and the EU’s common trade policy because of the short-term impact...
...Thereafter it’s a whistle-stop tour through Wilde, Evelyn Waugh, Agatha Christie, Judy Garland et al, interspersed with touches of memoir, such as Baker’s Nanna Betty with her crocheted-doll toilet-roll...
...The context for that was the turmoil around Silicon Valley Bank, et al....
...The group held €964mn in debt by the end of 2022....
...Today’s top stories The US Federal Reserve announces its decision on interest rates at 2pm ET/7pm London today. Check back here for details and reaction....
...These do not include the country’s financial elite, nor the small group that controls the bulk of our media....
...It’s from JPMorgan analysts Tien-tsin Huang et al, who cover IT services at the bank....
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