14,040 source-backed finance facts - each attributed to a named person and a number, linked to the original source. Page 137 of 141.
“Deutsche Bank has reiterated its 'Hold' recommendation on carpet retailer Carpetright”
“promises an alleged £26bn in extra funding.”
“retains its 'buy' rating and 700p target price”
“£250m extra”
“Shares of the firm are currently yielding an “eye-popping” 10 per cent, according to Motley Fool analyst David Kuo, about twice the market average.”
“Big Christmas bonuses are traditional, and they can amount to an extra three or four months’ pay.”
“The Bank of England is not expected to alarm markets with its base-rate decision on Thursday, with most expecting it to hold the rate at 0.5 per cent for a fifth consecutive month.”
“total bill for reopening train services through the West Country is reckoned to be more than £500m.”
“Its UK contract churn of customers leaving is now over 20 per cent.”
“it’s going to cost £500m.”
“Clifford Chance, by contrast, reported a 37 per cent fall in earnings per equity partner earlier this week, from nearly £1.2m last year to £733,000, while turnover fell five per cent to £1.26bn.”
“receives an annual £1bn in government subsidy.”
“The company’s debts soaring from £4.01m to £9.48m during the period.”
“£5bn-6bn”
“which doubled interest payments from £279,485 to £545,563.”
“calls to these numbers cost $2.95 per minute, a small price for greater democracy”
“an unpaid backlog of VAT, corporation tax and PAYE reached almost £8m”
“We had only £60 when we started,” he says.”
“The two restaurants alone accounted for a £9.5m reduction in revenues.”
“This “third sector” – not Third Way – between profit-based private enterprise and the traditional state has been much studied and admired in the US over the past few decades.”
“Goldman Sachs is on course to pay out up to $700,000 (£427,000) per employee out of a total compensation pot of around $20bn, based on analysts’ earnings forecasts for 2009.”
“Random House in New York has paid an 18-year-old girl $1m to write two novels”
“That level of reward would be almost twice the $363,000 the firm paid each employee on average last year, and would top the $661,000 Goldman staff received in 2007, before the economic downturn tightened its grip on the global banking sect…”
“and, along the way, amassed a $15m fortune”
“Analysts predict that Morgan Stanley could pay out between $11bn and $14bn this year, with Credit Suisse banking analyst Howard Chen forecasting individual pay packets of close to $340,000, the amount the bank paid its employees in 2007.”
“Heart to Heart ($17.95)”
“with Credit Suisse banking analyst Howard Chen forecasting individual pay packets of close to $340,000, the amount the bank paid its employees in 2007.”
“£35bn worth of assets”
“And while Morgan Stanley is expected to report a second‑quarter loss later this month, according to consensus analyst forecasts from Thomson Reuters, this is partly the result of it having repaid $10bn of money from the US government’s Tro…”
“what Britain spends on flood defences is about half of what is needed”
“Goldman saw its profits leap by 20 per cent in the first quarter of the year, while analysts predict it will post record profits for the full year.”
“a quarter of the population have no contents cover at all”
“record low of 233 out of around 7,000 companies had reported a dividend increase in the second quarter of 2009, a 48.8 per cent drop from the same period a year ago.”
“more than 0.2 per cent of its total budget”
“number of firms reporting dividend decreases climbed to a 50-year peak of 250, the highest level since the second quarter of 1957.”
“claim of more than £6m”
“dividend increases traditionally outnumbered decreases by a factor of 15”
“extra £51m, over four years”
“when there were just 18 dividend decreases”
“more than £400m needs to be spent each year”
“Q2 2009 233 250 0.93”
“providing they do at least 16 hours a week”
“Q2 2008 455 97 4.69”
“During the 1990s, a man in this age bracket became 20 per cent more likely to be out of the labour force”
“Q2 2007 542 18 30.11”
“while a woman aged 25-34 became 20 per cent less likely”
“6 Mo Jun,'09 516 617 0.84”
“natural disasters in the 1990s cost the global economy $480bn, nearly ten times more than in the 1960s”
“6 Mo Jun,'08 1,053 180 5.85”
“a folly that has wasted £650m of public money to date.”
“6 Mo Jun,'07 1,282 37 34.65”
“These venture capitalists were each responsible for investing about $60m a year in four or five start-ups with high growth potential.”
“12 Mo Jun,'09 1,337 1,043 1.28”
“They controlled, between them, budgets running into the billions.”
“12 Mo Jun,'08 2,284 253 9.03”
“Later on, Kennedy told a friend, the journalist Ben Bradlee, that the election had cost his hugely rich father, Joe, $13m – about $100m in today’s money.”
“12 Mo Jun,'07 2,588 93 27.83”
“The £120m-plus spent on the project”
“The FSA, which has been criticised for failing to spot the signs of the banking crisis, has created a new international division, led by director Verena Ross, which it said would help it engage with international efforts on regulatory refo…”
“$1.3trn tax cut”
“Enforcement and financial crime will merge into one division led by Margaret Cole, in an effort to ramp up the City watchdog’s role as a deterrent.”
“one in three workers, as high a proportion as anywhere in Britain, is employed making things”
“The regulator’s financial stability team will be beefed up and mandated to look at macro-prudential issues, under director David Strachan.”
“a three-year settlement worth an extra £4bn in the Budget”
“Remaining divisions will be reorganised into units mandated to oversee risk, financial capability and supervision.”
“There was also £1.2bn in European economic aid”
“These changes will provide greater clarity, both internally and externally, as to the way we work and, in particular, reinforce our role as micro-prudential supervisor,”
“an extra £1bn in government aid”
“The restructuring takes effect from 1 October.”
“will mean a total of £2.2bn”
“pre-tax profit for the 12 months to 3 May fell 15 per cent to £118.5m, ahead of forecasts of £115m”
“Shearsmith, along with a local businessman, Robert Fulton, was arrested (and later exonerated) by police investigating allegations of fraud over £60m worth of city development schemes”
“Last month Greene King successfully raised £207.5m through a rights issue”
“Williams accepted a £6,500 council pay‑off and gagging order two days before he was due to give evidence at an industrial tribunal”
“Shares in the company closed up three per cent at 422p”
“£2bn investment over 20 years”
“Austria has agreed with Lufthansa to inject €500m (£379m) into loss-making Austrian Airlines to help cut the airline’s €1bn debt pile.”
“the new currency would be launched on 1 January 1999.”
“Citigroup has downgraded WPP to “sell” saying that a continuation on second quarter trends would suggest a 2009 full-year organic decline of 7.5 per cent and limited growth in 2010.”
“at a value of $1.17 to the euro”
“The broker also notes sterling’s strength against the dollar, which offsets the positive impact of the cost savings. PEARSONExecution Securities believes that Pearson is the most defensive stock in the European media sector and has it as a…”
“It is now valued at less than 83 cents.”
“The broker has a “buy” rating and a 750p target price.”
“borrowing $1bn a day”
“The move knocked Carphone’s shares at the time by a sixth”
“by 50 per cent over two years”
“Morgan Stanley allocated $2.08bn for possible compensation during the first quarter, an excessively elevated 68 per cent of total revenues.”
“on 16 October, the Times published an interview”
“Ellis joins from Fidelity’s multi-manager business, where he was a managing director.”
“the G7 intervention of 22 September”
“He was also previously head of UK retail at AXA Investment Managers”
“and was until recently a board director of the Investment Managers Association, chairing its working group on stress tests for UK authorised funds.”
“just weeks after it hired a team of 45 from the firm to expand its institutional equities division.”
“Evolution Securities The investment bank has hired Colin Phillips as managing director from the former Dresdner Kleinwort securities business”
“after he joined the firm early last year to help identify specialist growth opportunities.”
“Prior to that, he was a top-rated institutional leisure analyst at Investec Securities and Panmure Gordon and a director of corporate finance at Investec Investment Banking.”
“Steel, who has over 15 years of experience in the sector, joins from JO Hambro Investment”
“Belaisch formerly spent 10 years as a senior economist at the International Monetary Fund”
“pre-tax profit for the 12 months to 3 May fell 15 per cent to £118.5m”
“Greene King successfully raised £207.5m through a rights issue”
