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...“We had plenty of money on March 20,” he said, referring to the days when the S&P 500 hit its lowest levels of the pandemic....
...Every morning at 5am, Ajit Yadav sets off to collect milk from the small farms dotted around the village of Karkhiyaon in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh....
...It is at risk of a downgrade by rating agency S&P Global if it spends more than $20bn on spectrum and its earnings are flat this year....
...“Ajit is one of a kind,” Mr Buffett said. “But his job is not capital allocation. It’s evaluating insurance risk.”...
...When asked about Force 47’s trolling, Facebook said it took down some pages in July....
...At Berkshire’s annual meeting in Omaha, shareholders were confronted with two possible successors — Greg Abel and Ajit Jain — the two Berkshire vice-chairmen....
...A similar trend has played out across the S&P 500 in the US, with shareholder revolts over pay rising from 46 to 61 since 2014....
...The S&P 500 has gained nearly 18 per cent since the end of 2018....
...Mr Buffett’s sobering hunt for acquisitions comes as merger activity begins to slow from 2018’s heady pace, according to data provider Dealogic....
...Those promises were enough to convince Ajit Pai, the Republican-leaning chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, that the deal was a go....
...They might even be permitted a glimpse of Greg Abel, or Ajit Jain, the other publicity-shy potential successor to Buffett....
...Berkshire A shares have fallen 1.7 per cent this year, slightly lagging the 0.4 per cent decline by the benchmark S&P 500....
...The second piece of bullish news came from FCC's Chairman Ajit Pai, who told the Mobile World Congress in late February that he plans to “propose the next steps needed to make the 3.7 to 4.2 GHz band [...
...Mr Buffett said their respective performances had roughly matched the broader S&P 500 index since they had started at the company....
...Luckily Spotify did not list publicly on Monday, when the benchmark S&P 500 fell into a technical correction. On Tuesday, a 1.3 per cent rally had taken the S&P back out of correction territory....
...There are suggestions that reinsurance chief Ajit Jain or Greg Abel, who runs the utilities division, might be lined up....
...Among those who agreed were Ajit Gulabchand, the managing director of Hindustan Construction Company, and Gopal Sarma, an India-based consultant specialized in construction....
...Ajit Singh, India’s civil aviation minister, said that state-owned Air India, which has five Dreamliners, should be entitled to compensation....
...But Mr Buffett said that he and Mr Munger still aim to beat the S&P 500 by a “small margin”, and explained why he rejected requests from shareholders that Berkshire pay a dividend....
...FT ArcelorMittal Boldness in Business Award winner: Environment As a young man, S....
...Ajit G. Hutheesing, Greenwich, CT, US...
...I moved back to New York to help Ajit Jain build up the reinsurance division....
...On the crucial issue of nurturing leadership, while more than 80 per cent of S&P 500 companies have an emergency succession plan in place, an almost equal number said they never discussed the issue....
...“Some people are talking of a ‘slowdown’ but that is a very relative term,” says Ajit Ranade, group chief economist at India’s Aditya Birla Management Corporation....
...Lieutenant Colonel Maninder S Chahal, deputy battalion commander, says the troops proved themselves by “showing restraint here and not getting emotionally involved.”...
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