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DELHI’S DAY
DELHI’S DAY
GORDON BROWN SPENT ten years as Chancellor of the Exchequer before finding time to visit India. It has taken him a little over six months to grace the subcontinent with his Prime Ministerial presence…
ROBERT COLE’S RECESSION-ASAURUS (EXTRACTS)
ROBERT COLE’S RECESSIONASAURUS (extracts)
IT’S HAPPENED TO us all. One minute you’re in your element, waxing lyrical about the big match over a bag of peanuts down the pub, the next the talk turns to the markets and you’re left clutching at m…
ARM HAS THE MUSCLE TO OVERCOME SWINGS IN SILICON CHIP DEMAND
ARM HAS THE MUSCLE TO OVERCOME THE SWINGS IN SILICON CHIP DEMAND
THERE WAS A time when investors could not get enough of ARM — but that was back around the turn of the millenium, when hopes for ARM semi-conductor designs was more imagined than real. In the past thr…
Break with tradition can lift unilever
BREAK WITH TRADITION CAN LIFT UNILEVER
HOW MUCH INFLUENCE does a chief executive exert over the fortunes of a company? It is a question that weighs heavy on the minds of investors in Unilever, the maker of Hellmann’s mayonnaise and Dove so…
Reuters, Breaking Views
Tesco should cut its dividend
TESCO SHOULD CUT ITS DIVIDEND
SHAREHOLDERS ULTIMATELY LOSE out when too-high payouts prevent companies from responding well to problems. Right now, Tesco needs all the financial flexibility it can muster. Its current dividend is d…
Visa Navigate
WORKING ONLINE TO SUPPORT NEIGHBOURHOOD BUSINESSES OFFLINE
WORKING ONLINE TO SUPPORT NEIGHBOURHOOD BUSINESSES OFFLINE
FROM NOTHING TO 1.6 million in less than five years. The success is counted in people and belongs to Berlin-based nebenan.de. The aim is to improve – sometimes create – physical neighbourhood communit…
VRBO LEADS ‘BOUNCY’ EXPEDIA
VRBO LEADS ‘BOUNCY’ EXPEDIA
EXPEDIA STRUCK DECIDEDLY upbeat notes about recent and current trading alongside second quarter earnings figures posted on 30 July. Its assessment of its Vrbo home-rental booking service was particula…
HOST SAYS 10% TO 15% OCCUPANCY IS ENOUGH
HOST SAYS 10 TO 15% OCCUPANCY IS ENOUGH
HOST HOTELS & RESORTS has said that its properties can be economically viable with occupancy as low as 10 to 15%. At that level, the company said, it would expect to lose marginally less Ebitda being …
Rentokil comes clean
RENTOKIL COMES CLEAN
IT’S ALMOST CRUELLY ironic that Rentokil Initial, a company dedicated to eradicating pests and cleaning toilets, is being so hard hit by the pandemic. It’s a specialist in handwashing, FFS!
That said…
Deliveroo
Working Round The Clock to Help Local Restaurants
WORKING ROUND THE CLOCK TO HELP LOCAL RESTAURANTS
WITHIN MINUTES OF a customer making an order, Deliveroo puts locally cooked food on tables in homes all over the world. Within days of the Covid outbreak, it threw lifelines to its international netwo…