MARKET REPORT: Electra bid talk puts eyes on 3i
Meanwhile, Electra recently hailed attractive new investment opportunities as banks continue to deleverage and revealed a warchest of more than £400million for new acquisitions.
Stronger-than-expected French and German economic data, and comments
from the Chinese Central Bank governor Zhou Xiaochuan that China will
continue to invest in Europe and hold European sovereign debt, helped
the Footsie improve 23 points at the outset, before profit-taking left
the close 7.71 points off at 5,892.16.
A good performance seeing as over 22
points were accounted for by several major blue chips trading without
entitlement to the next dividend payment. Drugs giant AstraZeneca fell
119.5p to 2898p, GlaxoSmithKline 19p to 1421p, BP 7.4p to 487.4p, Royal
Dutch Shell A 30.5p to 2301.5p and Unilever 25p to 2055p.
Demand ahead of today’s fourth-quarter statement lifted B&Q do-it-yourself group Kingfisher 7.9p to 278.9p. Panmure Gordon has a target
And it's become a strategy so successful that McDonald's is making the promotion perennial. Proof? How about a Facebook fan page that has more than 7000 "Likes," or the obsessive unofficial McRib Locator website, which attempts to identify McRib hot
Both these burger also-rans have undergone ownerships changes in the past few years, and this fall each has unveiled a new product strategy it hopes will lead to bigger bite of the burger business. Wendy's gave their core product, the hamburger,
It was a photograph of one child's “lunch” in an HISD middle school cafeteria — bright red, baked Flaming Hot Cheetos (aka “hot fries”) covered with processed nacho cheese sauce. Just to be clear, this was not a lunch brought by the child from home,