World's Biggest Container Liner Looks for Deals Outside Shipping

The world's largest container company will start looking for takeover targets outside the shipping industry as it tries to pre-empt a new competitive landscape in which customers are morphing into rivals. Jakob Stausholm, A. P. Moller-Maersk A/S's chief financial officer and head of transformation and
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LeasePak-Cloud is an end-to-end portfolio management solution for leasing and lending originations that streamlines the finance process from contract origination to end-term. Features include managing originations, accounting, collections, and customer service. For a monthly fee, the system is
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The company posted solid fourth-quarter results that topped analysts' estimates, driven by better pricing and increased activity in every reporting region, with particular strength internationally. The company's revenue trajectory exceeded Schlumberger's fourth-quarter detail. Halliburton shareholders are
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The Company was able to purchase a Freddie Mac K-Series first loss PO security and certain related IO securities for approximately $36.7 million in October, even though competition for credit assets continued to be very competitive. This is the second Freddie Mac K-Series investment we completed this
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Army Soldiers and the Civil and Military Police made an operation in the Jacarézinho Favela in search of drug traffickers, oon Jan. 18 . Photographer: Fabio Teixeira/NurPhoto via Getty Images. When Brazil's President Michel Temer put an Army general in charge of Rio de Janeiro's security last week,
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… Beats products including headphones and more — generated $14.3 billion in sales last year. Cook is fond of employing the Fortune 500 as a yardstick for his businesses, so this one is for him: The revenue from “other” products slots just behind Waste Management, which Bloomberg data show has the
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COLUMBUS, GA, February 20, 2018 /3BL Media/ – For the 20th consecutive year, Aflac has been named one of Fortune's 100 Best Companies to Work For, according to global research and consulting firm Great Place to Work® and Fortune. The leading provider of voluntary insurance at the worksite in
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Sprint Corp. is selling junk bonds for the first time in three years as the fourth-largest U.S. mobile-phone company invests to upgrade its wireless network. Sprint is selling $1 billion of unsecured junk bonds due 2026, according to a filing Tuesday from the Overland Park, Kansas-based company.
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A London-based lawyer pleaded guilty to lying to U.S. officials investigating Russia's meddling in the 2016 presidential election about his contacts with Rick Gates, a former associate of onetime Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort. Van der Zwaan arrives at Federal Court in Washington on Feb. 20.
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Pillar/Cohen is a division of SunTrust Bank and an integrated full service provider of capital related products and services to the commercial real estate industry. This position will operate as an integral member of an office of between 2 – 8 professionals with debt origination/placement. Focus will be on
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While it didn't explicitly name Russia, the ministry cited recent events, including the publication of a photograph that allegedly shows Latvian Central Bank Governor Ilmars Rimsevics in Russia, as evidence of an attempt to damage the country's image and erode public trust in the state before elections
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The fallout from OSFI's new mortgage stress test continues to play out across the mortgage industry. Some mortgage brokers are reporting an increase in their clients' applications being rejected by the big banks and monoline lenders as a result of the new qualification rules. In some cases, the rejection
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Walmart Inc.'s battle with Amazon.com Inc. is hitting its bottom line like never before — and testing the patience of investors. The retail giant's push to expand online operations and cut prices contributed to a record-low operating margin last quarter, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The profit
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Lamm, CEO of the chatbot company Conversable, started Hypergiant with the lofty goal of better matching Fortune 500 companies with AI solutions. The company contains R&D and venture capital arms to invest in smaller companies it can then match with its clients case-by-case. The result, Lamm said,
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The NLRB inspector general says a Republican board member should have recused himself from a decision protecting companies. By. Josh Eidelson. @josheidelson More stories by Josh Eidelson. February 20, 2018, 11:10 AM PST. An employee fills an order at a restaurant on the boardwalk at Coney
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Condos and apartment buildings in Vancouver. Experts anticipate a mix of supply and demand levers in the B.C. NDP's new housing policy, including a speculation tax and a widening of Vancouver's foreign buyer tax, introduced by the previous Liberal government in 2016, to include more cities.
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The U.S. Justice Department doesn't have to say whether there were any communications between the White House and Attorney General Jeff Sessions about AT&T Inc.'s proposed acquisition of Time Warner Inc., a judge ruled. The decision is a loss for AT&T, which has suggested that Trump's animus
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TruAmerica's acquisition was leveraged with seven-year agency financing through Freddie Mac's select sponsor program. The financing was arranged by Berkeley Point Capital Senior Managing Director Mitch Clarfield. About TruAmerica Multifamily TruAmerica Multifamily is a vertically-integrated,
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“While the internationally focused FTSE 100 has moved lower given the negative impact of a strong pound on internationally located firms, the positive implications of today's Brexit breakthrough seems to have been better reflected on the domestically focused FTSE 250 index,” he said. The midcap FTSE
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COMPANY: Etkin Johnson Real Estate Partners JOB TITLE: Property/Asset Manager SALARY: Send salary requirements with resume & cover letter. LOCATION: Denver, CO (local candidates only). Company Description: Etkin Johnson Real Estate Partners is a full- service, privately owned commercial
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