Market bets on new tanker competition
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EADS shares are down in Europe, and I am sure Northrop Grumman’s will also drop today. See this article. The market is assuming that the Air Force will follow the GAO’s recommendation and reopen the competition. EADS performance has been heavily affected by the delays to the A380 and the scandals with their management. Also they have labor issues as they try to sort out the French-German split and make themselves more efficient. There is still a good chance that EADS will win the new competition.
Fear of US export control laws lead Canada to deny sale of company
According to this article the Canadian government denied the sale of MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates Ltd.’s satellite business to Alliant Techsystems Inc. See a previous post about the planned sale here. Canada cited the fact that if the company became American the laws protecting US technology exports would deny Canada access to the company’s satellite that focuses on the Canadian Arctic. Due to several scandals in the Nineties the US ramped up the laws governing technology transfer and export and make it very difficult to do this. Read more
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