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...Youth activists who lined the streets of Nairobi last week to call for an end to major fossil fuel projects in Africa did not have much of a say in the agenda of the continent’s first climate summit....
Given existing options to gain listed exposure like MicroStrategy, the real problem is finding a use for the crypto assets
3G’s acquisition of Burger King and the purchase of VMware have proved to be among the most profitable industry transactions
...Then, in January, as part of its plan to break itself up into three pieces and then to disappear as a conglomerate, GE spun-off 80.1 per cent of its healthcare division as GE HealthCare Technologies, Inc...
...They waved frantically to guests at a hotel across the street. “We finally started making . . . the S-O-S sign,” she recalled....
...William Blair and the Perella entities declined to comment. The other companies did not immediately respond to a request for comment....
...William Sharpe called “the nastiest, hardest problem in finance”....
...Two messages from the company’s conference call have had an effect on Wall Street’s mood: we may be in a deflationary environment, and consumer demand looks a bit wobbly....
..., and the answers added up to considerably more than 100% — indeed, the survey results showed that 84% of respondents would apparently buy some form of potato crisp (Sensations crisps, Pringles, Walkers...
...If governments worldwide keep subsidising EV costs — and invest in charging infrastructure — you can expect more EV showrooms on a high street near you....
...A contrary view is from William Kovacic, an academic who chaired the FTC under Republican president George W Bush....
...To mark the occasion of his double-bill exhibition at both the Bury Street and Helmet Row galleries of Modern Art in London, Ron Nagle had his nails done....
...Oil was little changed, with international benchmark Brent crude flat at $84.92 per barrel....
...Wall Street’s S&P 500 lost 1.6 per cent in the session, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite declined 1.2 per cent....
...When they set up Plaid in 2012, initially in New York before later moving to San Francisco, it was shortly after the Occupy Wall Street movement....
...Wall Street’s blue-chip S&P 500 oscillated between small gains and losses before closing 0.2 per cent lower. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite added 0.1 per cent....
...Political allegiances were easy to spot on the streets of Paris in the 1780s....
...Joe Biden has nominated former Mastercard chief executive Ajay Banga as World Bank president, picking a Wall Street veteran raised in India to oversee the institution’s biggest mission change in a generation...
...That’s from Peter Grant, in The Wall Street Journal....
...William Conway, a co-founder of Carlyle, said in February he expected the hiring of Schwartz, the former president of Goldman Sachs, would help revive the firm’s fundraising efforts....
...Alan Flatt, a former Wall Street investment banker, forecasts a padel boom in the US, where the Pro Padel League incorporating Mexican and Canadian teams has just finished its first season....
...That image was replaced for me by one of a black man in orange and tan standing on the street with a woman in a dotted head wrap, and another of the same man buying fruit from a market....
...Boris Johnson has declared income of £4.8mn since he left office last September, more than 50 times his salary of £84,144 as a backbench MP....
...A ballot of Liverpool hoteliers held in September resulted in an 84 per cent vote in favour of the levy, it was announced this week....
...Smart reads The Finance Bible An out-of-print investing book written by Baupost CEO Seth Klarman is now selling for thousands of dollars, The Wall Street Journal reports....
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