OUTLOOK ’17: US EG increase expected at start of Q1 US ethylene glycol (EG) contracts are expected to rise in January as higher Asian prices open up an arbitrage opportunity for US exports, tightening domestic supply. Spot import prices in Asia have been surging amid bullish market sentiment fueled by anticipation of tighter supply, stronger crude oil prices and inventory building activities.

USA Today: Don’t Want Immigrants On The Public Dole? End The Work Permit Backlog. The Trump administration’s Department of Homeland Security recently proposed a new rule that makes it harder for immigrants to obtain a green card if they use any kind of public benefits while in the United States. In 2014, the waiting period for an application for employment authorization was about two months, according to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. In 2018 the processing time doubled to more than four months. The administration ought to focus on diminishing that backlog, instead of punishing immigrants who go broke while waiting to be allowed to work. (Wouter van Acker, 10/6)

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BASF: The largest AA & AE manufacturer in the world contributed 19.0% and 20.8% of the global CAA and CAE capacity respectively in 2013. In May 2014, BASF’s new 160 kt/a Acrylic Acid Project in Nanjing, China went into operation. Meanwhile, it is working on the 160 kt/a Acrylic Acid Project (scheduled to be put into operation at the end of 2014) in Brazil. By the end of 2014, BASF’s acrylic acid capacity is expected to attain 1,510 kt/a.

This is my first CEO’s interim report, having joined the firm in August. The firm continues to undergo transformation to create a capable and robust platform that will enable the financial performance of the Group to grow significantly. These changes, started by my predecessor over the past two years, have covered all aspects of both the Private Wealth Management and Corporate & Institutional Broking businesses. Although close to conclusion, they have been expensive and not without challenge to implement.

A6: Yes, I did. One is the expansion of group assets into higher cash-generating Irish assets. The other is that PHP’s cost of debt has been falling in recent years and still will fall further through some relatively expensive debt maturing next year, in 2019. The growth in size, the whole group, maintains the momentum on greater efficiencies, more efficiency structure, which raise profit margins too, though that’s more modest than the major effect which is the Irish premium cash yield.

In summary, 2018 was a terrific year. All of our businesses have strong momentum, and we expect another year of sales, gross margin, net income, and EPS growth in 2019. We expect 2019 gross margin dollars and percent to expand, due to the manufacturing capacity that came online in 2018, our improved utilization of that capacity, and the strength of our sales growth. The percentage increase will be somewhat muted due to our continuing investments in 2019 to meet committed demand for optical communications, GPF, and automotive glass. We expect to see the sales and margin benefit of these initial investments starting Q2, and build throughout the remainder of the year.

The Directors consider, having consulted with the Company’s nominated adviser, Canaccord Genuity, that the terms of RCBPF’s participation in the Placing are fair and reasonable in so far as Shareholders are concerned. Immediately following Admission, it is envisaged that RCBPF will hold 4,427,544 Ordinary Shares representing approximately 18.28 per cent. of the enlarged share capital.

The cost of new debt remains slightly below the average, falling, historical cost of debt, so further rises in market rates of interest would be at least partially mitigated by the maturity of historical, more expensive debt.

Centralized manufacturing and distribution was invented to improve the poor efficiencies of DEcentralized manufacture and distribution. So basically, this guy has taken a perfectly good solution to a long-forgotten problem, and reinvented the original problem for it!

Retainer income increased by 14% in the period. This was driven not only through a number of new quoted corporate clients moving to WH Ireland from our competition but also as a result of an increase in our average NOMAD/broker fees. The division secured five new corporate NOMAD/broker clients during the period under review and remained the third largest NOMAD to AIM companies by total number of clients.

Correction (7 November 2017): The line, ‘We would also like to thank Dr. Andrzej Czerwinski at Peptides International for his help in the synthesis of 64Cu-NOTA-PEG4-cRGD2 probe used in this study.’ was added to the Acknowledgments section.