Breakingviews
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Breakingviews: Insurer dividend angst overdone
by ReutersVideo 187 views
Feb. 21 - All insurers are battling low interest yields, but larger player like Allianz, Axa and Aviva have room for manoeuvre when it comes to dividends, says Reuters Breakingviews.
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Breakingviews: Digesting Heinz deal
by ReutersVideo 382 views
Feb 20 - Jeffrey Goldfarb and Breakingviews columnists discuss why the $28 billion acquisition of Heinz by Berkshire Hathaway and 3G Capital could take a long time to deliver.
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Breakingviews: Hard act to follow at BHP
by ReutersVideo 75 views
Feb. 20 - Outgoing BHP CEO Marius Kloppers had luck on his side, but his record as an inspirational leader was a good one according to Breakingviews. The miner's new boss has a tough act to follow.
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Breakingviews: Office supplies and demand
by ReutersVideo 247 views
Feb 19 - Jeffrey Goldfarb talks to Breakingviews columnists about why merging OfficeMax and Office Depot makes good sense in an era of ever-growing threats to specialized retailers.
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Breakingviews: EU bonus caps won't tackle excess pay
by ReutersVideo 184 views
Feb. 19 - The EU's push to cap bankers' bonuses won't resolve excess pay -- salaries will rise instead, says Reuters Breakingviews.
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Breakingviews: Cyprus election indecision is pro-bailout
by ReutersVideo 301 views
Feb. 18 - Cyprus' indecisive elections demonstrate a critical pro-European consensus and a public readiness to accept a bailout.
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Breakingviews: Herbalife of the party
by ReutersVideo 620 views
Feb 15 - Billionaire Carl Icahn is the latest investor to weigh in on the nutritional supplements seller Herbalife, cementing the company's spot in the pantheon of financial playthings.
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Breakingviews: Globalise Central Banks?
by ReutersVideo 129 views
Feb. 15 - Globalisation is gaining ground almost everywhere in the economy. Central banks are a dangerous exception, says Reuters Breakingviews.
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Breakingviews: Secret sauce in Heinz deal
by ReutersVideo 1,378 views
Feb 14 - Rob Cox talks with Breakingviews columnists about the rationale and structure of the $28 billion takeover of Heinz by private equity firm 3G Capital and Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway.
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Reuters Breakingviews: Europe on the up
by ReutersVideo 134 views
Feb. 14 - Poor GDP numbers for the euro zone are backward-looking. Forward-looking indicators show Europe is on the up, says Breakingviews -- though there's no room for complacency.
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Breakingviews: NBCU's die is Comcast
by ReutersVideo 173 views
Feb 13 - Breakingviews editors discuss the improvisational skills shown by Comcast with its accelerated $16.7 billion deal to buy the rest of NBC Universal.
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Reuters Breakingviews: SocGen short of options
by ReutersVideo 58 views
Feb. 13 - Societe Generale's management reshuffle and restructuring won't raise returns on equity to an acceptable level for investors, says Reuters Breakingviews.
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Breakingviews: One Dell of a deal
by ReutersVideo 116 views
Feb 11 - Antony Currie and Breakingviews columnists discuss why Southeastern is right that the PC maker is worth more than the $24.4 bln founder Michael Dell has offered -- but why the asset manager's $42 bln target looks a stretch.
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Breakingviews: Actually, Barclays means it
by ReutersVideo 76 views
Feb. 12 - It's wrong to dismiss Barclays' restructuring plans as empty spin, says Reuters Breakingviews banking editor Dominic Elliott.
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Breakingviews: Apple iCash
by ReutersVideo 211 views
Feb 12 - Jeffrey Goldfarb talks to Breakingviews columnists about David Einhorn's creative idea for Apple's cash and whether it's the best option for the company's shareholders.
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Reuters Breakingviews: Extraordinary times call for money printing
by ReutersVideo 165 views
Feb. 11 - Conventional monetary policy tools aren't working. It's time to follow the FSA's Adair Turner's suggestion and print money, says Reuters Breakingviews. Plus the bright side of the horsemeat scandal.
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Breakingviews: USPS not delivering
by ReutersVideo 141 views
Feb 8 - Richard Beales and Breakingviews columnists discuss whether subsidies for the U.S. Postal Service's $5 bln or more of annual losses could be better spent improving national broadband access.
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Reuters Breakingviews: Peugeot, the arthritic lion
by ReutersVideo 84 views
Feb. 8 - Peugeot's writedown is not the end of its troubles, says Reuters Breakingviews, and the outlook for French carmaker's outlook remains bleak. A bailout may be on the cards.
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Breakingviews: Gray Lady blues
by ReutersVideo 65 views
Feb 7 - Antony Currie and Breakingviews columnists discuss why the New York Times needs to halt the decline in advertising revenue as well as boosting subscriptions -- and why new boss Mark Thompson may not be best placed to do it.
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Paratroopers mutiny in Mali
by ReutersVideo 447 views
Feb. 8 - Locals flee amid heavy gunfire after a rogue unit of paratroopers began attacking fellow Malian soldiers and civilians. Deborah Gembara reports.