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...He may chew through portfolio managers like they’re rare steaks, but Ken really is the apex predator of finance today....
...Agricultural machinery company John Deere and Diageo make up the rest of the top five, while further down we find Canada’s national railway system; car seller AutoNation; Spanish construction company FCC...
...from a more fractured and less transparent marketplace to one that can deliver more value across broader investor segments,” said Georges Archibald, head of the Americas for financial services provider Apex...
...Huawei and ZTE suffer FCC clampdownThe US Federal Communications Commission has classified Huawei and ZTE as national security threats....
...Upshot: Semiconductors are at the apex of US-China tech rivalry....
...The FCC said its decision to modernise the ownership rules “will provide broadcasters and local newspapers with a greater opportunity to compete in the digital age and will help ensure a diversity of viewpoints...
...Groups such as Ferrovial, Abertis, OHL, ACS, FCC and Acciona were among those builders who formed joint ventures to win concessions from the government to build these roads during Spain’s pre-crisis boom...
...The FCC’s decision to overturn “net neutrality” rules, the principles which stipulate that internet service providers must treat all internet traffic the same, has, in a single vote, suddenly and fundamentally...
...The deal has attracted controversy because it only became possible after the Trump administration’s FCC lifted a barrier that had effectively capped the number of stations individual companies could own....
...But the recent FCC moves have changed the picture....
...The FCC also has limits on how much concentration a single owner can have — both nationally and in a single market — and those rules too may need to be rewritten for deals to occur....
...That was because the FCC chairman said he wanted to do away with net neutrality. Meanwhile, the Canadian dollar and particularly the Mexican peso did very badly....
...Additionally, while the proposed tax plan does not raise taxes on hedge fund managers, as Trump vowed during his campaign, courtesy of the cut in LLC tax rates, it will likely lower the taxes many if not...
...The FCC antitrust staff analysing the transaction on Wednesday briefed FCC commissioners and then Comcast officials....
...Tom Wheeler, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, said: “The FCC reviews every merger on its merits and determines whether it would be in the public interest....
...The resolution of lawsuits led by the US Department of Justice marks the apex of government investigations into whether fraudulent behaviour at the rating agencies contributed to the crisis....
...The carrier continued to levy the charges until January 2014 and took a cut of at least 35 per cent, the FCC said....
...The sentence was “unprecedented” for an insider trading case, she noted, and marks the apex of a decade-long investigation into SAC, the once unrivalled hedge fund that generated 25 per cent annual returns...
...deals for distressed assets in Spain, ranging from the US buyout group Blackstone buying a portfolio of residential properties to funds connected to Bill Gates taking a stake in the construction group FCC...
...It had proposed Baldomero Falcones, former chief executive of the construction company FCC, as its candidate for chairman....
...“We look forward to receiving FCC approval and promptly completing the transaction so that we can begin implementing our plans to deploy an advanced Sprint network that supports innovative devices and service...
...AnaCap, which owns UK lender Aldermore, first bought Apex Credit Management, which helped banks collect consumer debt, in 2007....
...Since then Julius Genachowski, FCC chairman, has repeatedly defended the move....
...Those talks picked up momentum in January after the FCC approved Dish repurposing its spectrum....
...“Chairman Genachowski shared proposals with his colleagues that will unleash up to 50MHz of spectrum for mobile broadband, including LTE,” said an FCC spokesman....
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