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...WR Berkley, an insurer, did not buy any of its shares in the second quarter last year, but spent $97m on its stock in the period this year....
...Other groups including Air Products and WR Grace have launched radical restructuring programmes, and all of them have had to re-evaluate their strategies following a profound upheaval in market conditions...
...His firm, WR Hambrecht & Co, specialises in underwriting IPOs through methods including the trademarked “OpenIPO” auctions....
...However, in the past few days several companies including WR Grace, Gardner Denver and Stanley Black & Decker have said they are keeping a close watch on demand and have identified savings that could be...
...The fund also owned $491m in shares of WR Grace, a chemicals and materials group where Mr Weschler worked in the 1980s....
...Hudson La Force, chief financial officer of WR Grace, the chemicals company, said: “We are digging through our customer order data to ensure that if we do see any slowdown in demand, we pick that up very...
...“It’s been an awful period,” says Matt Regan, a managing director at San Francisco investment bank WR Hambrecht....
...His new venture, WR Hambrecht, has been pushing low-cost auctions as a way to match small growth companies with investors (and helped to persuade Google to take this route, much to Wall Street’s distaste...
...WR Hambrecht opens the books on an auction for the company, which has amassed losses of more than $80m over the past four years....
...The group – led by senior industry figure William Berkley and including WR Berkley Corp, Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, Hartford, Chubb and Travelers – are lobbying Washington to limit the tax breaks...
...His past business experience is varied and includes working in the computer industry as national product manager for WR Grace and NEC Information Systems....
...WR: Let’s try. RM: Liechtenstein. WR: Short. RM: Angela Merkel. WR: Short. RM: Bear Stearns. WR: Short. RM: Ferdinand Piëch. WR: Long. RM: Oil. WR: Long. RM: Dmitry Medvedev. WR: Long....
...Both he and William Hambrecht, chief executive of securities firm WR Hambrecht, will then be nominated for election to the board at Motorola’s annual meeting next month....
...Motorola’s board is understood to have given an unofficial nod to the three independent directors suggested by Icahn – Frank Biondi, Viacom’s former chief, William Hambrecht, founder of securities firm WR...
...The US insurers, including Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway , WR Berkley Corp, Hartford, Chubb and Travelers, are lobbying Washington to limit the tax breaks available to insurers that write business...
...The other lead co-manager was WR Hambrecht, which pioneered the Dutch auction-style flotation during the dotcom bubble....
...Interactive, founded by Thomas Peterffy, went public through an internet-based auction run by underwriter WR Hambrecht, which pioneered the approach during the dotcom bubble....
...One US media investor familiar with Franklin said the fund manager was unhappy with the control Bill Huff, of WR Huff Asset Management, had on the Virgin Media board despite his shrinking stake in the group...
...The German provider of dialysis equipment and services has had its fair share of controversy since its 1996 merger with National Medical Care, whose erstwhile parent, WR Grace, fell prey to asbestos litigation...
...WR Grace has a number of outstanding liabilities related to the dangerous insulation material....
...Shares in WR Grace shot up 32.2 per cent to $10.63 while USG put on 24.5 per cent to $43.90....
...They had been replaced with WR Hambrecht, which has worked on a number of IPOs run using the auction technique....
...jumped 142 per cent compared to the 112 per cent advance at Yahoo, while its US business grew 90 per cent compared to the 37 per cent gain at Yahoo, according to an estimate by Bill Lennan, an analyst at WR...
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