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UK Department Store Group Debenhams Requests Five-Month Rent Freeze

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The group also recently asked for a drop in business rates and rent in relation to its balance sheet restructuring, which could potentially involve a process that would turn 100 million pounds ($122.4 The chain went through two insolvency events in 2019, and it expects the virus to adversely affect trading. million) of debt into equity.

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Mobile Order-Ahead Goes Mainstream

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Some have been physically restructuring to accommodate mobile order pickup without estranging in-person customers. Mobile doesn’t just mean apps – order-ahead technology is also increasingly being integrated into cars, and the rise in mobile ordering is affecting restaurants themselves. Washington, D.C.-based

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APAC capital markets during the COVID-19 crisis

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We expect Credit and Political Risk Insurance (CPRI) to play an important and increasing role in supporting lenders in mitigating risk, overcoming concentration issues and improving capital adequacy. In Asia, we have seen a rise in demand for surety as a liquidity tool to replace bank guarantee and LC instruments.

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Data Dive: Black Friday, Blue Apron And Banning Facial Recognition From China

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We know that online sales … has certainly eroded traffic from retailers over the years,” Brian Field, senior director of advisory services for ShopperTrak, told CNBC. But what we have noticed is that the decline is starting to flatten out.” In 2017, for example, visits to physical stores Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday were down 1.6

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Transcript: Maria Vassalou

Barry Ritholtz

And as the time goes by, I think the two lines get blurred also because of technology, because of the increased presence of retail investors in the markets. VASSALOU: — which are effectively retail investors. Or is it clearly one is right and one is wrong, and that’s that? VASSALOU: I think it’s much more nuanced.

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Musings on Markets: Control, Complexity and Politics: Deconstructing the Adani Affair!

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Among Indian institutions, LIC is the largest holder with just over 4% of the shares, but the retail investor presence in this company is small, largely because of the low float, though the surge in the company’s price in the last two years has drawn some traders to it.

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Control, Complexity and Politics: Deconstructing the Adani Affair!

Musings on Markets

Download data Again, the steep drop off in invested capital that you see in 2015 is just a reflection of the restructuring of the company that year, as the invested capital in Adani Ports and Power was removed from the mix.