Hints and tips:
...China Media Capital still owns 8.2 per cent of CFG, having originally paid $485mn to amass a 13 per cent stake....
...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....
...This exhibition at the V&A invites us into the opulent world of master goldsmith Carl Fabergé and his London clientele....
...Or more specifically, did an old post from Jamie Powell help bring about the deathly squeeze on Melvin Capital et al?...
...There’s not much precedent to support the idea that Shina et al can walk away based on a MAC clause: WPP was forced against its will to buy Tempus in 2001, Guy Hands couldn’t scrap a bid for East Surrey...
...AMD shares, which had jumped earlier in the session, were trading roughly flat at $13.76....
...Maybe we will discover that many managers were smart enough to sell out of Apple, Valeant, Williams et al before their shares tanked....
...al. (2013), Autore, et al. (2011), and Beber and Pagano (2011)....
...For a company like Rural that is traded on a major exchange, ―[t]urnover measured by average weekly trading of . . . 1% would justify a substantial presumption‖ of market efficiency. 5 Bromberg et al., Bromberg...
...But unlike Mr Terry et al, Mr Austin remains the beneficial owner and gets to vote his shares and reap the dividends. IGas’s shares tumbled 24 per cent last week....
...Qatar Holding – which bought the luxury goods store from Mohamed Al Fayed three years ago for £1.5bn – received the payout following a year of strong growth....
...He travelled to Germany for high-level talks, including a meeting with Angela Merkel, chancellor, while Mr al-Sayed negotiated with provincial officials and company executives....
...If he ceases to lead the QIA too, other important jobs could be reassigned, such as the managing directorship of direct investment arm Qatar Holding, currently held by Ahmad al-Sayed....
...High-ranking officials have also come under fire for conflicting business interests or for holding multiple board seats across the financial sector....
...Qatar Holding also invested heavily in Lagardère, taking 8 per cent of the shares in 2011, which it raised this year to 13 per cent, making it the media group’s largest shareholder....
...United States v Apple, Inc et al is more than a US Justice department antitrust action against publishers allegedly colluding on ebook prices....
...Qatar Holding has raised its stake in Lagardère, the French media group, to almost 13 per cent as the gas-rich Gulf state builds an increasingly influential position among some of France’s leading companies...
...In 2010 Qatar Holding was part of the consortium that bought movie studio Miramax from Walt Disney. In May 2010, Qatar Holding bought Harrods outright from Mohamed al Fayed....
...Ahmad al-Sayed, chief executive of Qatar Holding, has said he would be ready to study taking a stake in EADS should the opportunity arise....
...Mr bin Sulaiman was himself sacked in September 2009 and forced to return Dh50m ($13.6m) in bonuses without a trial....
...Another 7 per cent of voting shares are held by Prince Al Waleed bin Talal of Saudi Arabia, a close ally of Mr Murdoch....
...Dubai Bank’s problems stemmed largely from overexposure to the government’s raft of state-controlled companies – particularly Dubai Holding, which until the bail-out owned 70 per cent of the bank....
...The remaining £100m would remain on the company’s balance sheet....
...A recent example is Qatar Holding teaming up with the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC) to underwrite a $20bn (£13.5bn) rights issue by Prudential to finance the UK insurer’s bid for AIG...
...Abdulrahman al-Saleh, director-general of the department of finance, said that the holding company could sell some of its foreign investments and real estate holdings, which include the QE2 cruise liner...
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