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...Its new fund — known as Strategic Investment Partners V — plans to buy risky debt, including junior loans and convertible bonds, as well as preferred stock....
...One scoop to start: GAM is scrambling to find a buyer ahead of results it has delayed by two months, five years after a scandal over private debt holdings that led to fines, the resignation of the investment...
...“Everyone was getting comfortable in August again but unfortunately Jackson Hole happened and then everything went haywire,” the banker added, alluding to Federal Reserve chair Jay Powell’s remarks in Jackson...
...Consumers are definitely holding back on in-app purchases, versus a year ago....
...This exhibition at the V&A invites us into the opulent world of master goldsmith Carl Fabergé and his London clientele....
...As shown by Peter Jackson’s new Get Back documentary, their telepathic closeness persisted until the very end of The Beatles....
...“If you forget the importance of the quality of the sport, your investment won’t be worth much,” says Bridgepoint’s Mr Jackson....
...Appearing via video link from a locked down Madrid, Ms Botin said those estimates were based on a “V-shaped” recession — a sharp shock followed by a rapid recovery, but stressed this was only one possible...
...The case stands as blueprint for the difficulties governments face in holding big tech companies to account over antitrust....
...Causeway Capital Management LLC, the LA hedge fund, has declared 4.88 per cent of Micro Focus....
...“If our job is to hold a mirror up to nature, [we should ask] who is holding the mirror and who is being reflected.”...
...The regulator is holding a two-day roundtable on the issue next week in Washington....
...Jamere Jackson, previously the chief financial officer of Nielsen Holdings, will join as his replacement, effective September 10....
...Google wanted senior vice-president of global affairs Kent Walker to go, but the Senate is holding out for Page, who is unlikely to show. This seems to me incredibly wrong-headed....
...Currently holding £435bn. Corp bonds QE has been done before (they hold £10bn) still a potential route if credit mkts do seize up down the line....
...The US Federal Reserve is concerned enough that “Changing Market Structure and Implications for Monetary Policy” is the topic for this year’s economic symposium in Jackson Hole....
...But with no obvious sign yet of the Trump administration paying any attention, few are holding their breath. richard.waters@ft.com...
...In Tokyo convenience store chain FamilyMart Uni rose as much as 6.7 per cent after it announced it would ally with discount chain store Don Quijote, transferring holdings in its supermarket to the latter...
...A 2009 Supreme Court case involving prescription drug labels, Wyeth v Levine, greenlighted state laws that are stricter than federal laws....
...Overnight on Wall Street, the S&P 500 inched up 0.1 per cent and the dollar softened ahead of this week’s Jackson Hole symposium. Zinc led base metals higher, while oil prices reversed early gains....
...Over the past two weeks, which have included last weekend’s Jackson Hole symposium, commentary from a number of more hawkish US policymakers has helped markets attach a higher probability of rate rises in...
...Dell’s holding company, Denali, has set up a capital stock committee, made up of independent directors, to review any changes to the shares in future....
...(Masslive.com) Campaign commentary Thank Reagan and Bill Clinton for Trump’s dog whistle ways (Sally Kohn, Time) The media v Trump (Ezra Klein, Vox) Trump may cost the GOP a generation of voters (Michael...
...His new V-A-C art centre in Moscow is set to open in 2018 or 2019, housed in a defunct electrical power station....
...We went round the table and heard dreams of everything from being a pilot to a Janet Jackson back-up dancer to, finally, even the dream to be England’s rugby coach....
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