Hints and tips:
...The technology investor tapped his sprawling nine-acre estate in Woodside, California, for cash in December 2019, at a time when his company’s fortunes were cracking under the weight of a failed WeWork IPO...
...In October, he spoke at the “Davos in the desert” conference in Riyadh and had lunch with Princess Reema bint Bandar al-Saud, the Saudi ambassador to the US....
...But as Steven Kelly of the Yale Program on Financial Stability pointed out to me, Yellen et al will need the goodwill of the big banks should some other bank or banks get into trouble....
...Arnott et al estimate that stocks ejected from the S&P 500 actually outperformed new entrants by an average of 2,200 basis points in the year after the index rejig (FTAV has written about the index inclusion...
...The biggest motor insurers in the UK, for example, are the same ones that were around a decade or two ago — Aviva, Admiral, Direct Line et al. It is a similar story in the US....
...Key economic and company reports Here is a more complete list of what to expect in terms of company reports and economic data this week....
...Pieces in unglazed grey are finished with metallic details inspired by the drawings of Darwin et al....
...The critics argue that the local authority has given preferential treatment to ADUG and other companies owned by Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al-Nahyan, the billionaire who controls Manchester City, in deals...
...We’re in the middle of a very heated moment and I can only tell you that the hardest steel is forged from the hottest fire.”...
...the historical Arts et Métiers district....
...“You’re prepared to act in ways that might seem unexpected to the rest of the market,” he says. Others are playing catch-up....
...battle over the future funding of British horseracing, and more....
...A macroprudential-bulletin by ECB staff (Adachi et al, May 2020), noted that Libra could become a US$3tn collateral silo. Another alternative exists....
...That opinion was upheld by the New York-based Second Circuit Court of Appeals in 2016. Burford got out of its funding arrangement with Donziger et al after it had already put up $4m....
...The initiative from New Zealand et al has not reached critical mass: the big trading economies have not signed on....
...(FT) Former head of tax at Freshfields charged over illegal rebate scandal (FT) Equinox closes in on new funding to challenge Peloton in at-home fitness (BBG) Football Association’s streaming deal puts...
...But there is arguably a social and moral responsibility on companies and institutions that don’t need the money or have other sources of funding to leave it for those who do....
...Service Providers (ie Spotify, Apple et al), which improves SONG’s negotiating position. . . . . uh, great?...
...(FN) News round-up Sony rejects activist call to sell off image sensor business (FT) Compass raises $370m in new funding round (WSJ) Singapore’s GIC invests in $5bn Abu Dhabi pipeline unit (FT) Tink...
...The UAE’s deputy prime minister, Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al-Nahyan, bought Manchester City football club in 2008....
...This is exactly what Fisher et al called for in the 1930s. This full separation is an unlikely scenario....
...“We’re definitely seeing it in Las Vegas. This apartment market is extremely hot.”...
...More and more Americans, meanwhile, view FB et al etc as the new Big Tobacco....
...I have seen no data to show how Facebook and Twitter et al advance happiness or social cohesion....
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