Meanwhile, E.W. Scripps has appeared to back away from a comment in January by Chief Financial Officer Joseph NeCastro that the company was mulling the possible spin off of the company's newspapers.
While investors have focused on AOL's talks with Yahoo, and other possible spin-offs, the company has been able to reorganize itself in "stealth mode," Mr. Grant said.
The Oscar-winning actress, who plays Katniss Everdeen in the hit dystopian franchise, has distanced herself from possible spin-offs after the series ended with Mockingjay Part 2 this autumn.
The senior Conservative MP told the Guardian that he was "more and more convinced" this was "the way of the future" for a greater proportion of public services – suggesting the only exceptions from possible spin-offs should be front-line police and the armed forces.
There's enough impish twinkle to make you wonder about a possible spin-off.
Earlier in the week, the company had announced a possible spin-off of a prized asset — the trusted online retailer Lands Endd.
Morgan Stanley is looking at a possible spin-off of PDT, its quantitative-trading arm, one hope being that the bank can still make some money from the independent entity if it borrows.
Whitbread rose 33p to £16.23 despite finance director Chris Rogers seemingly downplaying recent talk of a possible spin-off of its Costa Coffee business in a meeting with the sales team at Espirito Santo.
The change at Reckitt Benckiser comes as GlaxoSmithKline, the UK's largest pharmaceutical company, signalled a possible spin-off of its consumer health division, a £6bn business that includes Panadol painkillers and Corsodyl mouthwash.
On another downbeat day for the market, hotels and pubs group Whitbread moved higher after a positive note from Credit Suisse, which speculated on a possible spin-off of the company's Costa Coffee business.
Recent developments in Radio Frequency (800 MHz–1000 MHz) Identification (RFID) devices suggest that it is possible to use them for wireless laboratory measurements of the dielectric coefficients (or compositions) of fluid mixtures with possible spin-off for their use in the petroleum engineering practice.
