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Euromonitor International: Insight

• Japan Tobacco to Acquire Natural American Spirit Outside US

  

  Analyst Insight by Don Hedley - Contributing Analyst Reynolds American Inc. has announced that the international rights to the Natural American Spirit brand name and associated trademarks, along with the international companies that distribute and ma…
  - 1 Oct 15, 1:40pm -
• The Best New Retailing Concepts of 2015

  

  Analyst Insight by Michelle Malison - Retailing Research Associate The retailing team is very pleased to announce the best retail concepts as part of our ongoing research. The best retail concepts were nominated in four categories – grocery, non-gr…
  - 30 Sep 15, 4:00pm -
• The Best Cities for Startups

  

  Listen as MP3 According to the recently released Global Startup Ecosystem Ranking 2015 by Compass, the list of cities ideal for startups is dominated by North American and European cities. However, a few emerging cities cracked the list, including Sa…
  - 30 Sep 15, 1:00pm -
• From Nobel Prize-Winners to Navigating the B2B Digital Landscape

  

  Post originally appeared on IIN Europe website “Stay curious and keep learning. You don’t have to have all the answers all the time,” says Sarah Boumphrey, Head of Strategic, Economic and Consumer Insight at Euromonitor International. “Grasp…
  - 30 Sep 15, 4:00am -
• Generational Differences in Mobile Payment Preferences

  

  One of the most important things to consider when launching a mobile wallet is the end user, and a mobile wallet will rarely find success if it does not cater to the millennial generation. According to Euromonitor International Survey data, there are…
  - 29 Sep 15, 4:00pm -
• White Paper | Cómo entender el impacto del comercio ilícito en las industrias a nivel mundial

  

  Alrededor del mundo, un número cada vez mayor de bienes y marcas se ven afectados por el comercio ilícito, desde productos de consumo tales como vestuario, medicamentos, electrónica y bebidas alcohólicas hasta otras industrias como lubricantes y…
  - 29 Sep 15, 12:44pm -
• White Paper | How to Understand the Impact of Illicit Trade on Business Around the World

  

  Globally, an increasing number of goods and brands are affected by illicit trade, from consumer products like electronics, apparel, pharmaceuticals and alcoholic beverages to other industries such as vehicle lubricants and auto parts. The global valu…
  - 29 Sep 15, 10:00am -
• Introducing the Industry Forecast Model

  

  The Industry Forecast Model is an interactive and highly visual dashboard that places the client in the driver’s seat. The Industry Forecast Model can help your business plan for shifts in economic environments, pressure test strategic plans, measu…
  - 28 Sep 15, 12:56pm -
• Submerging or Emerging Economies?

  

  Follow @SarahBoumphrey Emerging markets may have been getting bad press in recent times but the factors that have underpinned their growth are still real. No one can deny a slowdown is occurring, but the situation is more nuanced than that and commer…
  - 28 Sep 15, 4:00am -
• O sucesso da Drinkfinity, da PepsiCo, no Brasil

  

  Recentemente, a PepsiCo lançou no Brasil o sistema de hidratação Drinkfinity, que inclui uma garrafa de água e cápsulas contendo sabores, vitaminas e nutrientes. O produto se diferencia no estagnado mercado de sucos concentrados no país, que at…
  - 27 Sep 15, 4:00pm -

Reuters: Global Markets

• Pfizer walks away from $118 billion AstraZeneca takeover fight

  

  LONDON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Pfizer abandoned its attempt to buy AstraZeneca for nearly 70 billion pounds ($118 billion) on Monday as a deadline approached without a last-minute change of heart by the...
  - 26 May 14, 11:55am -

The Economist: Buttonwood's

• How do you solve a problem like Korea? Investors are unsure

  

  EUROPEAN markets have started the day with losses of 1% or so, following a 2% decline in Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index and the 1% loss in the S&P 500 index on Thursday. The Vix, a much used measure of market fear, jumped to 16, its highest level sinc…
  - 5 days ago, 11 Aug 17, 5:29am -
• Where might the next crisis come from?

  

  TEN years ago, BNP Paribas, a French bank, temporarily suspended dealings in three funds, citing “the complete evaporation of liquidity in certain market segments of the US securitisation market”.
  - 7 days ago, 9 Aug 17, 7:10am -
• Capitalism and the absence of creative disruption

  

  NINE straight highs for the Dow Jones Industrial Average might suggest that all is well with capitalism. But on the contrary, they could be a sign that things have been going profoundly wrong with the way the system is working.
  - 8 days ago, 8 Aug 17, 10:55am -
• A tale of two markets

  

  THE Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above 22,000 on August 2nd, something President Trump is almost certain to mention in a tweet soon*. So it might seem as if the “Trump bump”, which began perking American stocks on the night of the electio…
  - 13 days ago, 3 Aug 17, 7:53am -
• Foreign investors snap up London’s iconic buildings

  

  LONDON’S skyline has altered a lot in the last 30 years. While it can’t match Manhattan or Chicago, there are quite a few trophy buildings that can be seen from this columnist’s office window (for the moment*).
  - 20 days ago, 27 Jul 17, 11:14am -
• The euro’s obituaries were premature

  

  FIVE years ago, Mario Draghi, head of the European Central Bank, pledged to do “whatever it takes” to save the euro. At the time, many people were predicting that the euro zone would break up. But Mr Draghi pulled off the trick; no countries have…
  - 21 days ago, 26 Jul 17, 6:25am -
• Britain: back to being the sick man of Europe?

  

  IN THE 1970s, Britain was dubbed “the sick man of Europe”, a role previously played by the Ottoman empire in the late 19th century. A poor growth record since the second world war combined with terrible industrial relations (29m days lost to stri…
  - 28 days ago, 19 Jul 17, 8:47am -
• The psychic Brexit ballot paper

  

  DR WHO, the long-running British science-fiction hero, has a long-standing device to get him out of tricky situations; a piece of "psychic paper" that lulls the viewer into accepting the doctor's credentials. Apparently blank, the paper says whatever…
  - 37 days ago, 10 Jul 17, 7:00am -
• Can the fund-management industry deliver a better deal for investors?

  

  IMAGINE an industry where the average profit margins were 36%, where the regulator found little evidence of price competition and where the average person did not get the benefit of the lower charges available to the wealthiest customers.
  - 49 days ago, 28 Jun 17, 6:15am -
• Why the falling oil price isn’t hurting markets

  

  INVESTORS could easily get confused about the impact of oil-price rises on the economy and markets. The story seemed to be clear: high prices bad, low prices good. The two great oil shocks in the 1970s were unambiguously bad for Western economies—u…
  - 55 days ago, 22 Jun 17, 10:47am -

The Guardian: Nils Pratley on Finance

• newEasyJet and Ryanair should be wary of launching Air Berlin bid | Nils Pratley
  The Irish carrier is right to smell a stitch-up to hand the ailing airline to Lufthansa – but rivals should not be forced to overpay There’s nothing like the failure of a competitor to perk up other airline’s share prices. Sure enough, as Air B…
  - 23 hours ago, 15 Aug 17, 2:28pm -
• Sainsbury’s is right to delay Nisa deal after Tesco-Booker concerns | Nils Pratley
  Supermarket’s takeover of wholesaler makes commercial sense – but it should avoid the regulatory tangle its rival is facingSainsbury’s move on Nisa seemed a good idea, and a neat response to Tesco’s much bigger plan to buy cash-and-carry merc…
  - 2 days ago, 14 Aug 17, 2:07pm -
• Bank of England takes note on banknotes (but that's all) | Nils Pratley
  The listening bank? The BoE is sticking with traces of animal products in its notes despite 88% of respondents in its consultation saying it shouldn’tHas the Bank of England got the hang of this public consultation lark? On the vexed question of wh…
  - 6 days ago, 10 Aug 17, 2:27pm -
• Worldpay takeover deal: not bad, but could have been better | Nils Pratley
  Is the £9.3bn deal with US firm Vantiv another example of unambitious British management selling out cheaply?Worldpay is the payments processor that escaped from the wreckage at Royal Bank of Scotland to become a member of the FTSE 100 index. Ignore…
  - 7 days ago, 9 Aug 17, 2:27pm -
• Bank of England deputy's Brexit warning is strong stuff | Nils Pratley
  Sam Woods has spelled out clearly why a transition period is needed for financial services – and showed it would make the process cheaperSam Woods isn’t beating about the bush. The deputy governor of the Bank of England and head of the Prudential…
  - 7 days ago, 9 Aug 17, 1:47am -
• Executive wages may have fallen, but the case for pay ratios is even stronger
  The government mustn’t be fooled by the lower salaries seen in 2016 and stick to its plan to make remuneration more transparentIt’s amazing: the fat cats of the FTSE 100 survived on smaller helpings of cream last year. Chief executives saw their…
  - 14 days ago, 3 Aug 17, 1:01am -
• Angry at British Gas price hike? Save your fury for the government
  News that electricity bills will increase by 12.5% is no surprise – likewise the complete lack of action by ministers in responseAre you outraged that British Gas is hiking the price of its electricity by 12.5%? Maybe you are, but nobody who follow…
  - 15 days ago, 1 Aug 17, 3:12pm -
• HSBC shows what happens when a bank stops shooting itself in the foot | Nils Pratley
  The cleanup of HSBC, forced by scandals including the £1.2bn fine in the US, is finally delivering for shareholdersThe back-slapping in HSBC’s boardroom is understandable. Only 18 months ago investors were wondering if the dividend was in peril in…
  - 16 days ago, 31 Jul 17, 2:25pm -
• AstraZeneca boss Pascal Soriot's 'pivotal' year is turning out horribly | Nils Pratley
  Firm’s share price has crashed after a key cancer drug flopped in trials, leading £13m-a-year CEO to insist: ‘I’m not a quitter’This year would be “pivotal” for AstraZeneca, its chief executive, Pascal Soriot, has said for ages. It would…
  - 19 days ago, 28 Jul 17, 4:53am -
• Love Island is awful – but ITV's prospects are better | Nils Pratley
  First-half ad revenues fell 8% as expected, but things are expected to improve – and the Netflix revolution has been overstatedBad, but it could be worse. No, that’s not a review of the depressing and soulless Love Island. It’s the state of pla…
  - 20 days ago, 27 Jul 17, 5:34am -