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...in The Atlantic magazine, which detailed his ultimately doomed efforts to move the channel away from the Zucker era....
...As well as rescuing Greensill from near failure in 2016, this new financial firepower fuelled an aggressive expansion that helped the group attract investment from US private equity firm General Atlantic...
...The Federal Reserve lowered interest rates and pumped $2tn into the financial system, which started to make companies feel more comfortable about shopping around....
...With revenues so much higher, though, the margin on earnings before interest, taxation, depreciation and amortisation actually rose, as operating costs would have been lower as a proportion of the total....
...and interests spanning metals, mining, renewable power and banking....
...During the first week of July 1940, the Bank of England had gold worth £200m ($18bn in today’s prices, according to the World Gold Council) on liners in transit over the Atlantic....
...Mr Manafort and Mr Deripaska embarked on a series of business ventures, including abortive attempts to buy the Drake Hotel in New York and a Ukrainian cable company....
...Then, in 2000, he led an investment by News Corp in REA, an Australia-based real estate listings company. The company later increased its stake to 61 per cent, paying a total of about $100m....
...Consensus forecasts are for underlying profits before interest and tax of £1.56bn in 2015, against £1.7bn in 2014. Earnings are expected to be flat at about 38p....
...China and persistently low interest rates — may give some ammunition to the company’s critics....
...Last year, BAT paid $575m to settle a long-running dispute over asbestos and dividend claims in a case relating to a subsidiary....
...The two-year US yield, however, was up 2bp at 0.71 per cent as market participants continued to weigh up the likelihood of the Federal Reserve raising interest rates this year....
...A funeral was held for him near its head office in Kyoto on Friday. The company said it was yet to select a new president....
...It established a benchmark price that was used by everyone from mining companies and consumers to central banks....
...As well as previously working at CME in the 1980s, Mr Ray had also worked at Robertson Stephens, Dean Witter Reynolds and its successor company, Carr Futures....
...King, founded in Sweden in 2002, sold 22.2m shares for $22.50, the midpoint of a $21 to $24 range set out by the company’s executives before they criss-crossed the Atlantic to meet investors over the past...
...Mr Thornton’s appointment as his successor underscores how much the gold sector, along with much of the mining industry, has come to depend on China, now the world’s largest market for the precious metal...
...A successor will be announced “in due course,” the LME said in a statement yesterday....
...that more debt is issued out of the holding company” or having rules put in place to impose losses on debt held in the top operating companies of each group....
...Mr Glasenberg revealed that Beijing was looking at the market share the combined company would have in copper concentrates, the ore used to produce copper metal....
...As Andy Reynolds Smith, GKN’s chief executive of automotive, points out, businesses with many customers lower down the supply chain may find it easier to serve China through a wholly owned subsidiary, as...
...Energy Flash : A Journey Through Rave Music and Dance Culture, by Simon Reynolds, Faber, £20, 560 pages Originally published in 1998, Reynolds’ superb dance music survey ended with the Prodigy leading the...
...metals and minerals....
...So when a small US company found oil in 2007, 60km offshore in the Atlantic, the country seemed poised to realise a long cherished dream....
...It sold undeveloped deposits in Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Canada to Vale, the Brazilian metals group....
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