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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....
...In terms of power, think of it as overkill for a house party but plenty for a small venue holding 100 or so people. If the room is bigger, you can link multiple PartyBoxes together....
...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...
...“If you zip up one of my dresses, you should either feel complete freedom or as if someone is holding you,” he says....
...The emergence of Risc-V has reopened the door for companies to compete in the CPU market....
...His producer credits last year included Lamborghini — The Man Behind The Legend, Johnny Puff: Secret Mission, and Tell It Like A Woman (Oscar-nominated in the best original song category)....
...There’s this phenomenon that got its name in early VR days: gorilla arm [fatigue from holding a device in the vertical plane]. You’re just not strong enough to do that. It gets tiring after a while....
...This exhibition at the V&A invites us into the opulent world of master goldsmith Carl Fabergé and his London clientele....
...The last song in the book is “Your Mother Should Know”, while the final photo shows McCartney as a parent, holding the hand of a daughter when she was a child....
...The photograph went on to be bought by institutions around the world, including the V&A in London....
...He hasn’t announced a blank-cheque deal since January, when his Social Capital Hedosophia Holdings Corp V announced a tie-up with the digital lender SoFi....
...lawsuit against Goldman over 1MDB (FT) Iberdrola extends US reach with $8.3bn deal for PNM Resources (FT) China’s Ant gets final approval for world’s biggest-ever IPO (FT) UMG IPO/Vivendi: not going for a song...
...Song Jung-a 31....
...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...
...To call this “quality” borders on the oxymoronic, given that holding Swiss franc or yen government bonds to maturity would guarantee a loss of principal....
...Will the Nasdaq whale be the elephant in the room that marks the bull market’s swan song? Possibly!...
...-- is to refinance a loan used by one of Mr Shetty’s companies for Finablr’s 2014 acquisition of Travelex Holdings....
...Causeway Capital Management LLC, the LA hedge fund, has declared 4.88 per cent of Micro Focus....
...NYSE v Nasdaq: may the best board win Next to the Red Sox and the Yankees, Nasdaq and NYSE have one of the most longstanding bitter rivalries in America....
...In 2008 Antanas Nedzinskas — who auditioned for the Eurovision Song Contest with a novelty song — won a four-year term in the Lithuanian parliament....
...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....
...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....
...Mr Trainor points to Soundcloud’s 177m tracks, which compares to the 40m song library offered by Spotify and virtually every other streaming service....
...By contrast, every time someone streams a song, Spotify is charged a fee and the more users it adds, the more royalties it pays....
...Facebook v YouTube: contrasting approaches The music business has been intermittently at odds with technology platforms for decades, since digital piracy ravaged the sector’s traditional business model....
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