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...For years, the income stream has helped prop up a retail business model that is now well into its third decade of sustained decline....
...If approved by a court, the settlement would resolve claims alleging that the firm had conspired with peers and the industry’s main trade group to artificially prop up sales commissions....
...The sheer size and interconnectedness of capital markets have forced central banks — in 2008, 2020 and 2023 — to become a backstop and buyer of last resort of securities to prop up both the banking sector...
...The New York-based firm bought the debt alongside other investors at a discount from Wall Street banks, helping to prop up the deal, according to people familiar with the matter....
...The likes of Blackstone and Apollo have rejigged their internal accounting to shove employee pay into the distinct performance fee silo in order to prop up management fee margins....
...The state is also intervening to prop up the stock market, which has fallen more than 20 per cent in the past year, such as with restrictions on short selling, tighter capital controls and mobilising state-owned...
...Culture Amp, an employee-experience company, has a Slack channel #all-camper_yays, which encourages staff to create posts sending “props” — expressions of appreciation — to co-workers....
...industry as “dry powder” — which has accumulated as venture firms adopt a more cautious stance to investing amid declining start-up valuations, preferring to find ways to back more established tech groups or prop...
...That experience, Stacom said, taught her the importance of understanding the dynamics of partnerships — and to “always prop the door open”....
...“That felt like my breakfast with Stan O’Neal and the menu,” he said, referring to a meeting with the then Merrill Lynch chief executive and the prop they used to sketch out plans for BlackRock’s 2006 acquisition...
...Next up is the offering of 120 guitars and amps from the Dire Straits singer and songwriter Mark Knopfler (Christie’s, January 31) and, at Bonhams, costumes and props from The Crown (February 7)....
...Virtu began life as a “prop” trader but is best known as a leading market maker for brokers such as Robinhood. Its institutional business pays brokers for those retail orders....
...Many of the companies used the enthusiasm as an opportunity to prop up their ailing businesses by issuing new shares, but Bed Bath & Beyond eventually filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection earlier this...
...Most businesses in such dire straits would sacrifice non-core activities to prop up their main operation. But Rakuten is not “most businesses”....
...It has also benefited from its expansion beyond its core business into things such as food delivery, which exploded in popularity at the peak of the coronavirus pandemic and helped prop up the company while...
...It’s been a lousy investment since then (despite a mysteriously strong 2023), undercutting the argument that index inclusion and passive funds prop up bad stocks....
...Paige Wassel, a 30-year-old freelance prop stylist and YouTuber, who has more than 155,000 TikTok followers, says social media accounts focusing on design took off over Covid-19 lockdowns, which increased...
...the brothers is matched onstage: confined to the glass office (designed by Es Devlin) in which the company ultimately collapses, the three actors play dozens of characters and use whatever is to hand as props...
...On Friday plaintiffs filed a motion to dismiss a bankruptcy filing by the 3M subsidiary Aero, saying the Third Circuit’s ruling on LTL had “knocked the props out” from under the case and it should be dismissed...
...“We were long yen . . . but we closed that position too early when they intervened, so we didn’t have the FX position on as well,” said Dowding, referring to moves beginning in September to prop up the currency...
...“Don’t be fooled,” he says, “Prop 30 . . . was devised by a single corporation to funnel state income taxes to benefit their company . . ....
...In Wyoming, Save America gave $650,000 to defeat prominent Republican Trump critic Liz Cheney and prop up her primary opponent Harriet Hageman....
...Now bullion prices are historically high, they need to prop up production....
...Private lenders including Apollo and Ares have been stepping in to prop up corporate bond deals in public markets as other investors back away amid volatility that has crushed the volume of riskier debt...
...“What was entertaining to me was that people were putting their own spin on the Excel content by putting it to music and using props. When I saw those videos, I just thought, ‘This is my speed’.”...
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