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...Job moves Imran Siddiqui has been named chief executive officer of Talcott Financial Group, a life insurer affiliated with Sixth Street....
...For the past two weeks, I’ve been zipping around San Francisco in driverless taxis, transfixed by the way they can navigate busy streets so smoothly....
...Centerview, one of the most profitable corporate advisers on Wall Street, has denied David Handler’s claim based only on an “oral partnership agreement”....
...Dimon returns to China Jamie Dimon is having a busy few days....
...The recently-acquired securitised products group of Credit Suisse was busy providing cash to the likes of PacWest, the besieged California-based bank....
...Silver Lake has bid €2.6bn to buy Germany’s Software AG, a pioneer of the European tech sector that stagnated on public markets until its nascent cloud computing business caught Wall Street’s eye....
...The other is that, until recently, it had largely avoided the kinds of internal psychodramas that have paralysed Wall Street’s biggest players, owing to what Centerview believes is its conscious effort to...
...The Wall Street pressure comes foremost from Benioff’s decision to buy messaging tool Slack Technologies for $27bn in 2020, which put Salesforce in direct competition with Microsoft....
...The peculiar thing is that this has all happened just as robotaxis arrive on the streets of San Francisco....
...SpaceX is estimated to have raised nearly $7bn over its life, and generates substantial cash from its busy schedule of orbital launches....
...(Business Insider) News round-up UBS, UniCredit and Nomura fined €371m over European bond cartel (FT) Discovery chief got options valued at $190m on eve of AT&T deal (Wall Street Journal) US companies...
...He’s not missing Wall Street and “if you have these goals, you can build around them and you actually have a schedule that keeps you pretty busy and out of your wife’s way”....
...The goal is to make themselves essential to clients, who during hard times might be inclined to reward larger Wall Street firms for extending much-needed financing through the crisis....
...The lease was signed by a company named BSREP III Nero LLC, a possible allusion to the emperor who was blamed for the burning of Rome....
...“Whenever you start reading about people on the front page of the Financial Times or Wall Street Journal, it’s usually the top....
...This is sensible, especially if you are competing with more than 160 other pushy strivers for the attention of a lot of busy people with the power to shape your career....
...LA neighbourhoods such as Sherman Oaks, whose lawns and malls sit at the busy intersection of freeways 405 and 101, have become case studies for Waze’s side-effects....
...It’s another busy day for corporate earnings with announcements for Wednesday coming from Rio Tinto, Standard Chartered, BAE Systems, William Hill, Johnston Press, Travis Perkins, Aggreko, RSA Insurance,...
...But while the Masters of the Universe were busy swapping accusations, Las Vegas quietly recovered....
...“But they were busy launching the iPhone.”...
...The declines on Monday came ahead of a busy few days for business news....
...It is a busy day on the economic calendar....
...On Wednesday, Wall Street hovered around record highs, buoyed by the housing data and as the energy sector received a lift from firmer oil prices....
...Aside from the RBA decision, services PMI readings from China and Japan should provide something for investors to keep busy with....
...There was disappointment on Wall Street overnight as data showed the US economy grew by 0.5 per cent quarter on quarter in the first three months of this year, 0.2 percentage points below expectation, and...
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