Hints and tips:
...As we’ve covered previously, the US’s auto insurance rates have soared 24 per cent over the past two years (v BLS data)....
...They don’t have the resources, esprit de corps or a history to look back on.”...
...He said the pension fund had taken the opportunity to reduce some holdings, such as in high-grade credit, to build cash reserves....
...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....
...A US circuit court said as much as part of the 1979 case of Zweig v Hearst Corp, which found that a newspaper columnist touting a stock could be sued for securities fraud for failing to disclose he owned...
...In Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, a popular video game developed and published by Seattle-based Valve, players can choose to become terrorists — planting bombs and holding hostages — or counter-terrorist...
...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...
...Xerox wants to give HP’s board its walking papers We’re all guilty of overusing the David v Goliath trope but in the case of Xerox and HP, it really does apply....
...Time will resolve . . . and we will see a sharp V-shaped recovery,” Mr Son said....
...“They [BlackRock and Vanguard] take an even greater responsibility with their holdings as permanent shareholders. I think it makes them better investment stewards,” he says....
...Neptune said Mr Lumens will continue as a non-executive director at Oryx Energies and V-Labs Virtual Reality....
...Vitol and its partners, Africa Oil Corp and Delonex Energy, will pay $1.4bn for the Brazilian company’s 50 per cent holding in Petrobras Oil and Gas BV (POGBV)....
...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....
...Sempra Energy Martha WyrschExecutive vice-president and general counsel Ms Wyrsch is one of the most senior executives in Sempra, the energy holding company....
...Banks v telcos Access to a reliable and convenient cashless payment system remains an issue in the Philippines, however....
...Thanks to a series of court rulings since the mid-2000s, such as eBay v MercExchange in 2007, Mayo Collaborative Services v Prometheus Laboratories in 2012 and Alice Corp v CLS Bank in 2014, and the subsequent...
...The Darmstadt-headquartered group recently acquired Sigma-Aldrich in a $17bn deal, the biggest in its history, a deal which played a “major role” in the first three months of 2016....
...(FT) Samsung v Elliott: Lex argues that the South Korean smartphone maker’s resistance to splitting itself apart is a good call....
...Merck recently acquired Sigma-Aldrich in a $17bn deal, the biggest in its history, and has also in recent years acquired AZ, an Apple supplier and Millipore Corp, a US maker of lab equipment and chemicals...
...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....
...“You can’t put Grand Theft Auto V on an iPhone, it’s not the same experience. People were thinking about them like software companies when they should look at them like television and movies.”...
...Yet one of the big holdings of the Janus fund is a $140m equity stake in Sigma-Aldrich, a biotech supplies company being taken over by Merck of Germany....
...An esprit de corps led to intense periods of seven-days-a-week work while Google’s car parks lay empty on the weekends....
...Mr Muromachi appears committed for now: “My biggest responsibility is to achieve a V-shaped recovery in the next financial year,” he says....
...But, as we wrote yesterday, the linkages in China’s economy, which we really doubt are all known, make us v wary....
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