Agnes T. Crane
Agnes T. Crane is a Reuters Breakingviews columnist, based in New York, where she covers capital markets and Latin America. She joined from Dow Jones Newswires, where she was an award-winning journalist who led a team of reporters covering the credit crisis. Before that she worked at Market News International in New York and as a freelancer contributing to The Deal, Advertising Age and other publications during her four year stint in Mexico. Agnes holds a BA from Temple University in Philadelphia where she studied History.
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Recent stories
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GE Capital cash cow reincarnated as goat
General Electric is finally milking its finance unit after stopping dividends in 2009. But GE Capital is slimmer now and, special dividends aside, will also be passing on less of its earnings than in the past. It’s still good, just not as rewarding for its parent as it once was.
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Avon punishes its own investors with its dawdling
The cosmetics group’s hapless board compounded its enabling of failed former CEO Andrea Jung by offering a wishy-washy response to Coty’s compelling $10.7 billion merger offer. The deal is dead for now: No wonder shareholders’ mascara is running.
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ResCap bankruptcy brings Ally full circle
Seven years ago, Ally Financial - then GMAC - was worried its GM links would bring down high-flying ResCap. It’s an irony of the financial cycle that cutting loose the U.S. mortgage unit may now give the car finance firm its best chance of repaying Uncle Sam’s $17 bln bailout.
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U.S. mortgage vehicles need to come out of shadows
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New Avon CEO gets thrown in the deep end
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Sunoco owners get rewarded for patience
