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...Out of the 22 donors who have received peerages in the past 13 years, three are from Labour, four are Liberal Democrats and 15 are Conservatives.The biggest gifts include £3.5m from Stanley Fink, £8.2m from...
...Analysts at Morgan Stanley reckon the “endemic”-stage market could be worth anything from $2bn to $25bn a year....
...And Morgan Stanley: We remain Underweight on Imperial shares, pointing to a weak cigarette portfolio and the most exposure versus peers to rapid RRP-led disruption....
...IAG’s said it’s cutting 75 per cent of April/May capacity and that CEO Willie Walsh is no longer leaving at the end of March....
...Adjusting for currency changes, Google’s revenues grew at their fastest rate in four years, calculated Morgan Stanley....
...So the Willie Purves room — dedicated to the bank’s chairman for much of the 1990s — is solid and understated. Just like the legacy of Purves, a pin-up for current boss Stuart Gulliver....
...First, the Willie Nelson approach (“Turn out the lights – the party’s over”). On this view, outsized FICC profits were a bull market phenomenon....
...Both will continue to report to Willie Walsh, who is group chief executive....
...Still, as David Cameron might have said, quoting Willie Sutton when asked why he robbed banks “because that’s where the money is”....
...Iberia reported an operating loss of €263m in the six months to June 30 and Willie Walsh, IAG chief executive, is set to reveal a far-reaching restructuring of the airline on Friday that unions fear could...
...Willie Walsh, chief executive, also acknowledged that the group was suffering from a stock overhang created by Spain’s partial renationalisation of Bankia, the deeply troubled Madrid bank and IAG’s largest...
...Douglas McNeill, analyst at Charles Stanley, said IAG’s inaugural year had been a “good one, with a substantial increase in earnings”....
...Douglas McNeill, analyst at Charles Stanley Securities, said: “It’s a tale of two cities....
...“I think there is no question that it is a victory for British Airways but it comes at a cost,” said Douglas McNeill, at Charles Stanley Securities....
...Part of the BFI season is dedicated to those space-age jeux d’esprit that were such an influence on directors such as Stanley Kubrick, and are ripe for cultish rediscovery....
...“They did need to secure closure,” said Douglas McNeill, transport analyst at Charles Stanley Securities in London. “It makes good commercial sense to eliminate the threat of further disruption.”...
...As Willie Walsh, chief executive, said: “To get the business back into profitability has been a very hard job and I think everyone in BA deserves credit”....
...But with Willie Walsh, chief executive, pledging to “hold out for as long as it takes”, the airline appears intent on permanently altering the balance of power with the union....
...Willie Walsh has never been one to shun the limelight....
...“The figures from the last strike action suggest as many as a quarter of cabin crew may have voted to strike but turned up to work nevertheless,” said Douglas McNeill, transport analyst at Charles Stanley...
...“Willie Walsh has to make a lot of unpopular and difficult strategic changes because, if he doesn’t, BA will have no future....
...BA’s chief executive, Willie Walsh would be chief executive of the new Topco, and Antonio Vázquez, Iberia’s chairman, would become chairman....
...The negativity surrounding the sector was reinforced by Willie Walsh, the chief executive of British Airways, who said the airline industry was yet to feel the worst of the downturn....
...Willie Walsh, British Airways chief executive, said on Monday it could take until the autumn for the airline to complete the transfer of its long-haul services from Terminal 4 to Terminal 5 at Heathrow airport...
...Willie Watt’s office sits beside Edinburgh Castle....
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