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...Kraft will be under pressure to cut costs and raise margins at the British company. To some, that spells job cuts. The British trade union Unite claimed earlier this month that some 7,000 Cadbury workers would be under threat if the proposed takeover went through. Another analyst, Howard Wheeldon, a senior strategist at BGC Partners, questioned on Tuesday whether the acquisition would herald "a partial breakup" of the British business. (See a TIME video about a chocolate-bacon...
...Sure, rough economic head winds and the business of turning two firms into one can give cost cutting real momentum. The tough trading conditions following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks were, after all, a "catalyst for the success of [the Air France-KLM merger] at the time," says Howard Wheeldon, an aviation expert at brokers BGC Partners in London. (Read "British Airways: High Costs Fuel Record Loss...
...would need to be on board for the levy to be effective. Investment banks wouldn't likely leave Britain for cheaper foreign currency-trading in Macedonia, but they might well if that opportunity was in Manhattan. Advanced economies imposing the tax unilaterally "would see their financial markets decimated," Howard Wheeldon, senior strategist at BGC Partners in London, wrote in a note to clients on Monday. (See 25 people to blame for the financial crisis...
...taxpayer falls to Baroness Scotland, Britain's Attorney General. That process could itself take weeks, with any resulting case unlikely to come before a judge until next year. "Going the route of formal prosecution is certainly not an easy cut-and-dried process for the SFO," Howard Wheeldon, a senior strategist and aerospace expert at BGC Partners in London, wrote in a note to clients Thursday. Moreover, he suspects, "if BAE allows it to come to court they feel they have a pretty good chance of success...
...long stocks hold those positions in the face of the threat from H1N1 remains to be seen. The fact that shares hit hard early had regained lost ground Monday suggests markets had earlier "responded in the time honored fashion," says Howard Wheeldon, senior strategist at BGC Partners in London, namely with "a degree of overreaction...