Word: mergers
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...home, Sarkozy often says he wants to give greater freedom to markets, but his actions show he's no economic liberal at heart. The merger of Gaz de France and Suez is the perfect example of an interventionist state influencing companies and the market. Politically, Sarkozy has shown true genius in undermining the Socialist Party by attracting some of its leading lights to his team. But is mere political calculation also behind his backing of Socialist Dominique Strauss-Kahn to head the International Monetary Fund? Sarkozy's motives are often open to question - and differ from his stated objective...
...Anglo-Saxon capitalism" is no longer an epithet in the Elysée. But the reality is, well, very French: leave the driving to the state. Let's have "national champions," such as the giant merger between two utilities, Gaz de France and its rival Suez - essentially a monopoly under government control. Sworn to competition, the E.U. won't like this. But Sarko has already attacked the independence of the European Central Bank, another pillar of the European construction...
Devised as a condition of the merger of the AFL and NFL, the big game quickly became the kind of national communion that only TV could make: a daylong ritual and feast, an event that you watched because you needed to watch that thing that everyone was watching. And in 1984, with the debut of the Apple Macintosh ad, the game became a showcase for commercials and seemed to realize its true purpose: to be a massive, expensive, profligate tribute to the desires of America's consumers and to the full bellies of its warehouses. Showy, theatrical and full...
...this past year's round of bidding. Alitalia's initial cuts (modest as they are) to both personnel and fleet, its search for some hanging-on cash, and above all its shifting its hub southward all make it a more attractive regional partner for Air France following its merger with Dutch carrier KLM. It may turn out that playing hard to get will pay off for the French, as the Italians grow more desperate every...
...than 13 months after Aguirre had first proposed, but the Pequot investigation was officially closed on November 30 of that same year. The SEC's case closing recommendation, dated November 30, 2005, states that "the staff has been unable to find any evidence that Pequot had information regarding the merger between GE and Heller before the merger was publicly announced, much less that anyone tipped Pequot or Samberg about the merger in advance of its announcement. The staff's investigation found it extremely unlikely that Mack tipped Samberg about the merger between GE and Heller, having found no evidence that...