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...Arrival’s deal with Kensington Capital Acquisition Corp V values the company at $524mn....
...“I would say that, as a team, we've pretty well discounted a uniform V-shaped recovery. The question is, is it U-shaped, is it W-shaped or parts of it L-shaped?”...
...Xerox wants to give HP’s board its walking papers We’re all guilty of overusing the David v Goliath trope but in the case of Xerox and HP, it really does apply....
...It expected biopharmaceutical customers to cut budgets and highlighted recent disappointing results from larger peer Waters Corp....
...Corp bonds QE has been done before (they hold £10bn) still a potential route if credit mkts do seize up down the line....
...Morgan Stanley says negative policy rates “lower the bar” for carry trades, where investors borrow at a low rate to fund bets chasing a better yield....
...economic benefits based, directly or indirectly, on the value or price of, any capital stock of, or other securities or ownership interests in, the Company (the items in clauses (i), (ii), (iii), (iv) and (v)...
...Morgan Chase.”...
...Mexico’s stock market hit a record high earlier this year and banks ranging from Spain’s BBVA to the US’s JP Morgan have been busy bulking up their operations there....
...Morgan McKinley said its findings underlined forecasts that London would lose an extra 13,000 financial services jobs this year....
...The software sales figures beat analyst expectations – Wedbush Morgan had predicted a 3 per cent rise to $1.50bn, while Cowen and Company predicted a 10 per cent rise....
...“The V-shaped recovery in corporate profits seems to be at an end,” warned Barry Knapp, chief US equity strategist at Barclays Capital....
...This was expected but it’s still a potentially damaging blow to Bank of America, Wells Fargo, JP Morgan Chase, Citi, and GMAC, and to a housing recovery that is yet to even begin....
...A final ruling from the ITC on the Apple v HTC case is still at least six months away, and Morgan Stanley’s Ms Lu says that “rising litigation uncertainty could remain as a share price overhang” for HTC....
...I have not been stalking the slightly doughy man sitting opposite me in a blue V-neck sweater and open-collared white shirt....
...Worse-than-forecast earnings from Bank of America and Morgan Stanley weighed on the wider sector....
...Blow- out figures from Intel and JP Morgan were pointing toward a strong start on Wall Street on Wednesday....
...Airlines fluctuated as Morgan Stanley reviewed its ratings on some of the biggest US carriers....
...Companies, too, are exhibiting V-shaped behaviour: this week, Taiwan Semiconductor said it would re-hire hundreds of staff it fired late last year while Mazda reversed plans to impose a three-day week at...
...“V-shaped” recoveries, in which employment comes roaring back, take place only when there’s a lot of pent-up demand....
...In other cases, the pain will be even more broadly felt, says Huw van Steenis, analyst at Morgan Stanley. “I think the bigger holders now of securitisations are insurance companies and pension funds.”...
...“The consensus V-shaped recovery in S&P earnings by late 2009 stands in complete contrast to my view that even a U-shaped real economy recovery will need all the major risks to the forecast aligning positively...
...ICICI’s managing director, K V Kamath, called the rumours “baseless and malicious”....
...Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse, RBS and Wachovia had an uncomfortable time in Texas on Thursday....
...Morgan Stanley shares rose 2.2 per cent to $45.70 while Wachovia climbed 3.9 per cent to $27.00. Energy stocks also moved higher thanks to sale and contracts news....
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