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He also said that Flywire trading at a discount of about 25% is "unwarranted given the company's strong competitive position and organic revenue growth trajectory." "These risks along with a tough demand setting is likely to remove any support for the stock price." — Alex Harring 5:29 a.m.: BTIG moves to sidelines on McDonald's after earnings BTIG has a different taste in its mouth about McDonald's following earnings. The bank upgraded the delivery giant to buy from neutral and hiked its price target to $175 from $160. "We expect management to deliver a strong cost reduction program to support margin expansion and attractive EPS growth despite facing a backdrop of muted revenue growth," analyst Thomas Wadewitz wrote.

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STOCKHOLM, Oct 9 (Reuters) - American economic historian Claudia Goldin won the 2023 Nobel economics prize for her work examining wage inequality between men and women, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said on Monday. "This year's Laureate in the Economic Sciences, Claudia Goldin, provided the first comprehensive account of women's earnings and labour market participation through the centuries," the prize-giving body said in a statement. Goldin, who in 1990 became the first woman to be tenured at the Harvard economics department, is only the third woman to win the Nobel economics prize. "Claudia Goldin's discoveries have vast societal implications," said Randi Hjalmarsson, member of the Economic Prize committee. As with the other Nobel prizes, the vast majority of the economics awards have gone to men.

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London CNN —Claudia Goldin, a professor at Harvard University, was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics Monday for her research into women’s income and employment. Jakob Svensson, chair of the committee for the prize in economic sciences, added: “Understanding women’s role in the labor market is important for society. Thanks to Claudia Goldin’s groundbreaking research we now know much more about the underlying factors and which barriers may need to be addressed in the future.”Claudia Goldin Harvard UniversityGoldin was born in 1946 in New York. She is the author of several books and is best-known for her work on the history of women in the US economy. The economics prize is officially known as the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.

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☆ Q&A With Volvo Group’s Karin Svensson
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-29 | by ( Rochelle Toplensky | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +8 min

Karin Svensson, chief sustainability officer of Volvo Group. We were setting the new strategy for the Volvo group. The numbers of electric trucks we sell are still quite small, but it’s a huge increase. It’s really really important that we really decrease our emissions by 2030, so we have set interim targets for all our business areas. We are now [testing] fuel-cell electric trucks and expect to have an offer ready toward the second half of this decade.

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☆ Qantas names Rob Marcolina new CFO in latest management overhaul
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-28 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

June 28 (Reuters) - Qantas Airways (QAN.AX) has appointed Rob Marcolina as its new chief financial officer, the company said on Wednesday, succeeding Vanessa Hudson who was in May named the carrier's first woman CEO. Marcolina, who joined in 2012, is currently group executive of strategy, people and technology and will take over once Hudson starts as CEO in November. Australia's flagship carrier also named Chief Customer Officer Markus Svensson its new domestic CEO as it plans to create 8,500 new jobs locally within the next decade. Catriona Larritt, with the carrier for about eight years and former chief commercial officer at its budget arm, Jetstar, will become the chief customer and digital officer, the company said. (This story has been corrected to fix Rob Marcolina’s surname in the headline and paragraphs 1 and 2)Reporting by Rishav Chatterjee in Bengaluru; Editing by Sriraj KalluvilaOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Rob Marcolina, Vanessa Hudson, Marcolina, Hudson, Markus Svensson, Catriona, Rob Marcolina’s, Rishav Chatterjee, Sriraj Organizations: Qantas Airways, Australia's, Jetstar, Thomson Locations: Bengaluru

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