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Thu 02 Sep 2010
Milicruit is, alas, not a recruitment site for future leaders of the Labour Party but a virtual career fair that puts together former members of the US military and potential employers in “an interactive 3-D virtual setting”. The notion has one huge advantage for companies such as UBM that operate such “events”: they are an awful lot cheaper than their real-world equivalent. UBM shares change hands on less than 12 times this year’s earnings. A good play on economic recovery, says the Times.
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Thu 02 Sep 2010
Tesco, the UK's largest supermarket, is one of 10 bidders in the £650m auction for the south-east Asian assets of French rival Carrefour. Other bidders in the first round of bids for the stores are thought to include Casino, another French retailer, Aeon, the vast Japanese supermarket group, and Dairy Farm, the Singapore retail group, the Telegraph says.
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Wed 01 Sep 2010
Vodafone chief executive Vittorio Colao has taken about a billion of costs out of the group, which will generate free cashflow of £6.5bn over each of the next three years.
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Wed 01 Sep 2010
Greg Hutchings told The Times he believed that Tomkins investors had been short-changed in the £3.1bn Canadian takeover of the company.
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Tue 31 Aug 2010
George Osborne is planning to cut staff numbers at the Treasury by about one-quarter and scale back his department’s role as he attempts to lead by example in the search for sweeping spending cuts across Whitehall.
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Sun 29 Aug 2010
Mothercare shares have taken a battering since the spring and closed last week at 511p. With profits this year expected to reach £45 million and earnings per share at 38p,that is not a cheap valuation, unless you believe that there are good growth prospects.
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Sun 29 Aug 2010
Vodafone is preparing to raise more than £4bn by selling its shares in China Mobile, the first in a string of planned disposals by the mobile-phone giant.
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Fri 27 Aug 2010
The industrial services group Amec is an easy tip – a fact confirmed by yesterday's first-half financial results, says the Independent.
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Fri 27 Aug 2010
Managers of Britain's biggest banks can claim little credit for the sector's return to profitability this year, according to Standard & Poor's.
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Thu 26 Aug 2010
One of Britain's most notorious fugitives will return to the UK voluntarily today to face multimillion-pound fraud charges after almost two decades abroad, it was reported last night. Asil Nadir, 69, who was a Conservative party donor, fled to his native northern Cyprus in 1993 to avoid a £34m fraud trial centred on the collapse of his Polly Peck business empire, according to the Guardian.
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Thu 26 Aug 2010
Aidan Heavey, the founder and chief executive of Tullow Oil, said that he “didn’t think it was a big deal” when he updated the market, while presenting Tullow’s interim figures, on the company’s progress in a complex tussle with the Ugandan tax authorities.
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Wed 25 Aug 2010
Cairn Energy’s new focus is Greenland, as the chief executive, Sir Bill Gammell, stressed yesterday.
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Wed 25 Aug 2010
Investors fled to the safety of government bonds yesterday amid growing fears of double-dip recessions in Britain and America.
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Tue 24 Aug 2010
Yesterday, Petrofac forecast a 20% surge in net profits for the full year as it announced its first contract win in Iraq.
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Tue 24 Aug 2010
Britain faces a “significant” risk of a renewed slide into recession, a leading policymaker at the Bank of England warned yesterday.
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Mon 23 Aug 2010
BHP Billiton could face an uphill struggle to sell its $39bn hostile bid for PotashCorp of Canada to its shareholders in a round of crunch briefings this week in the City and Scotland.
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Sun 22 Aug 2010
Recent news on gold production from Russian-focused miner Petropavlovsk was disappointing. However, its interim results statement next week could be very interesting. The Telegraph's Questor believes that news on Thursday could be positive and reckons investors should buy the shares ahead of the statement. However, the shares are likely to remain volatile because of the risk discount associated with Russian companies.
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Sun 22 Aug 2010
SABMiller, the giant brewer, is considering a £7 billion takeover of its iconic Australian rival, Foster’s. The London-listed group, which owns the Peroni, Grolsch and Miller brands, is plotting a move for Carlton & United Breweries, the beer-making arm of Foster’s, the Sunday Times reports.
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Fri 20 Aug 2010
Hammerson, the FTSE 100 shopping centre developer, is selling a 51% share of its O’Parinor development in Aulnay-sous-Bois, north east of Paris, to The National Pension Service of Korea, which last year bought HSBC’s Canary Wharf tower, with an option to sell on another 24 per cent next autumn. The shares yield a reasonable 4.5% . A good hold for any recovery in the French economy, according to the Times.
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Fri 20 Aug 2010
South Korea’s national oil company was on Thursday night on the brink of launching a £1.67bn hostile takeover bid for Dana Petroleum that could be announced as early as Friday, reports the FT. The move would mark the first time an Asian state-owned oil company has made a hostile approach in the UK, and signals an unexpected shift in the battle for overseas reserves by the region’s national oil companies.
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