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...In securities filings this week, US oil company Chevron disclosed a potential hang-up for its pending $53bn all-stock acquisition of smaller rival, Hess Corporation....
...Even multinational corporations, including Disney, Royal Dutch Shell, Continental, Allstate and Raytheon, are announcing staff cuts. Few sectors are suffering more than air travel....
...Teneo’s clients such as Allstate, Barclays Capital and BHP Billiton had stepped up their giving, he said....
...Mr Feldman has pulled together case studies from the likes of Allstate and General Mills on how to get employees to discuss difficult subjects constructively....
...One of its first pieces takes apart how Allstate’s auto insurance algorithm squeezes big spenders. Tech tools — Brave browser goes Wayback Tired of those 404 Not Found errors?...
...The tax package gives corporations a generous cut in the headline corporate tax rate from 35 per cent to 21 per cent, but the insurers’ predicament highlights how some sectors have been left facing perceived...
...The company’s US subsidiary Resolution Life is now close to its first acquisition, the $600m purchase of Lincoln Benefit Life from Allstate Corporation, and is targeting further acquisitions of $2bn, Resolution...
...AllState Northern Ireland, which was formerly known as Northbrook technology, develops software and technology solutions to its US parent AllState Corporation, a home and automobile insurer....
...“There is also a strong push by corporations to bring operations back onshore to make their business more local,” he says....
...Global corporations rushed to raise the first batch of funds in 2013, taking advantage of a jump in risk appetite this week in the wake of a political deal in Washington that averted the fiscal cliff....
...Global corporations began 2013 with a wave of issuance that pushed total bond sales in the US over the $40bn mark in less than a week....
...such “upstream loans” were regarded with extreme disfavour by the taxman, Cadbury dodged HMRC’s anti-avoidance rules by disposing of the Cayman subsidiaries before the end of the first financial year to Allstate...
...According to people familiar with inter-agency talks, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation has argued for a broader range....
...Clearwire Corporation, the US broadband wireless company majority-owned by Sprint Nextel, fell 5.5 per cent to $6.77 after it announced a quarterly loss of 61 cents per share....
...Metlife shed 26.8 per cent at $27, while peers Allstate and XL Capital sank 21.2 per cent at $29.96 and 27.7 per cent at $8.68 respectively....
...Shares in Allstate fell 1.3 per cent to $57.18. St. Paul’s Travellers was down 1.1 per cent to $44.27....
...Large corporations have been among the biggest donors to the assistance efforts, contributing $42m so far, with companies and foundations offering more than $100m in aid to survivors....
...Among financial issuers, Allstate Corporation, a home and automobile insurer, sold $650m of 10-year notes with a 5 per cent coupon, while American General Finance Corporation, part of the American International...
...Allstate shares lost 1.6 per cent to $47.56....
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