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Policymakers try to revive IPOs and trading volumes but plans are fragmented and progress has been slow
...Amid the glut of pandemic fiction, the best — Ali Smith’s Summer (2020), Sarah Moss’s The Fell (2021) — approach the virus as a springboard for commenting on wider political issues, or use it to focus on...
...After five years of ownership, CVC still owned Douglas when the pandemic hit....
...London IPOs raised just £0.3bn in the first quarter, a contrast to mainland Europe where big flotations included the SFr2.3bn listing of dermatology group Galderma and retailer Douglas raising about €850mn...
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...“The economy sucks right now,” said Avonti Fonville, a Ford worker in Wayne, Michigan, from the picket line before his union, the United Auto Workers, struck a deal with the automaker last month....
...US housebuilder Smith Douglas kicked off this year’s IPO efforts stateside this month; its shares are still about 15 per cent above the listing price....
...Then in 2012 chief financial officer Greg Smith invited her to Boeing’s headquarters to lead investor relations. She had never played that role or lived in Chicago....
...The worst-case scenario is that “policyholder behaviour changes such that the insurers become forced sellers”, said Douglas Baker, a director at Fitch Ratings....
...Conservative commentator Douglas Murray revelled in “the delicious schadenfreude” of it all....
...Additional reporting by Ian Smith...
...Who Douglas Elliman Estate, Newport, New Hampshire, $2.5mn Where On Croydon Brook Road in Newport, New Hampshire, about 2 hours’ drive from Boston....
...That was before DD’s Robert Smith and FT investigative journalist Cynthia O’Murchu exposed that H2O had poured nearly €1.5bn into Windhorst’s network of rickety ventures back in 2019....
...Britain after Brexit is edited by Gordon Smith. Premium subscribers can sign up here to have it delivered straight to their inbox every Thursday afternoon....
...Cameron’s return is unorthodox but has historical precedents, including former prime minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home’s return as foreign secretary in the 1970s....
...Dr Douglas Kelley, a land surface modeller at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology said: “The number of deaths and evacuations suggest it’s more than local emergency services normally cope with....
...But his real musical gift is curatorial, as with the compilation tapes he used to make for punk acts such as Blondie and Patti Smith....
...Brad Smith, Microsoft’s vice-chair and president, said he was “grateful” for the decision in California, adding that “our focus now turns back to the UK”....
...For resident Joe Douglas, representing his fellow leaseholders in the case, the battle is personal....
...In 2014, Smith personally handed out $1,500 in cash to each employee at a company-wide party where rapper Lil Wayne performed....
...The Smiths’ “Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now” couldn’t have been a hit in any other country. Pink Floyd once sang (in “Time”) that “Hanging on in quiet desperation/ Is the English way”....
...Chris Smith, manager of Jupiter UK Growth fund, said: “We voted in favour of the Unilever remuneration report and disagreed with ISS and Glass Lewis’s recommendation for shareholders to vote against.”...
...Douglas Smith, managing partner at top 20 shareholder Blackmoor Investment Partners, which will also vote against the deal, said: “The board suggests the offer gives a total entity value of £481mn, but our...
...Douglas Smith, managing partner at top 20 shareholder Blackmoor, said: “We think that the suggested price is not representative of [Hyve’s] value.”...
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