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...Meanwhile, real estate developers and investors have latched on to life sciences as the rise of working from home threatens financial returns from their office holdings....
...Of these, the bulk was done by just two companies: Quest Diagnostics and Laboratory Corporation of America....
...Lachlan Murdoch, son of media tycoon Rupert Murdoch and chief executive of Fox Corporation, was an existing shareholder and retains a stake of around 10 per cent....
...And after achieving the feat of holding the square for a month, they needed to figure out what to do next....
...For SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son, the acquisition of Arm Holdings in the summer of 2016 was a magic moment....
...in Latin America....
...Oil prices are retreating, although Brent crude is holding above $40 a barrel after this weekend’s meeting of big producers....
...Jennifer Epps-Addison, network president of the Center for Popular Democracy, a progressive advocacy group, argued that powerful corporations were “trying to weasel their way out” of their responsibilities...
...Banks appear to have passed the first test: a short but pronounced period of market mayhem and a co-ordinated drawdown of hundreds of billions of dollars of credit by corporations feeling the strain....
...This compares with a UK General Retail sector average of 15.8x and 7.7x respectively.- In line with Next’s longstanding IR policy the company is not holding an analyst call today....
...Imagine if, after Columbus’s voyage to the Americas, no European had repeated the journey for half a century....
...Value investors take note: those Jordan Henderson shirts should be worth something in a few years if they dip below book value. Well, more than SunEdison or Horsehead Holding shares, anyway....
...Qubits v bytes: how quantum computing works Quantum computing taps into the quirky behaviour of sub-atomic particles, which bend our normal understanding of physics....
...Volpe, Managing Member of Volpe Investments LLC.Harry L. You, President, CFO and Director of GTY Technology Holdings Inc....
...“It probably makes sense that someone rolls them up into one holding company,” she says....
...Vanguard boasts that its new bond fund, which will buy bonds globally from both corporations and governments, will carry an ongoing charge figure of 0.35 per cent of assets....
...Thanks to a series of court rulings since the mid-2000s, such as eBay v MercExchange in 2007, Mayo Collaborative Services v Prometheus Laboratories in 2012 and Alice Corp v CLS Bank in 2014, and the subsequent...
...At a time when many of its larger competitors, such as Aberdeen and Henderson (now Janus Henderson), have experienced outflows, Premier has posted 16 quarters of positive inflows....
...The market is dominated by two companies, Laboratory Corporation of America and Quest; together, they had sales of almost $16bn and gross profits of $5.7bn last year....
...“Research in the private sector really is in the hands of a few corporations,” said Alessandra Colecchia, one of the report’s authors....
...Another drilling vessel, Noble Corporation’s Noble Discoverer, is in position nine miles away from the Polar Pioneer at the Burger V prospect, waiting for the other rig to finish, although it will also need...
...Other poor investments in TPG V include Washington Mutual, and the former TXU, now renamed Energy Future Holdings, the largest buyout ever, which filed for bankruptcy protection in April....
...On Monday, The Laboratory Corporation of America (LabCorp), best known as a provider of blood and other medical testing, announced plans to buy Covance for $6bn, mostly in cash and the rest in shares....
...As the industry flourishes, we must have some means of holding researchers — many of them in rich, private corporations — to account....
...That is Act V, and we are not there yet. For now we are still very definitely in the age of hydrocarbons....
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