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...American forces launched a second raid on Saturday....
...“You say you are between a rock and a hard place but you have chosen sides; you have chosen the Saudi side, not the American side.”...
...Hedge funds and asset managers can buy those instruments, and trade them in Macau — a place better known for casinos than financial services....
...With Four Organs, he hoped to re-create the “phasing” effect of his tape pieces, but with real instruments....
...It is a major American maker of the less-geopolitically-sensitive kind of chips, meaning it supplies fast food restaurants with frozen french fries....
...Or an American Girl Doll, or a Beanie Baby, or a baseball card....
...The American banks were behind on all that, and Goldman was definitely behind. We just weren’t as good at it as the SocGens and BNPs....
...Others, like Qualcomm, Intel and Texas Instruments, participated last year as well....
...Precious metal miners Pan American and Agnico Eagle have made a joint $4.8bn bid for Yamana Gold, swooping in after Gold Fields faced an uphill battle convincing investors to back its takeover offer....
...A record 50.4mn Americans are expected to wager some $16bn according to the American Gaming Association....
...Yamana’s board said on Friday that the offer from Pan American and Agnico Eagle was a “superior proposal”....
...I thought of him down in the dungeon, listening to the preparations for the evening’s banquet, the dance musicians tuning their instruments....
...The deal was eventually scuppered last month when Yamana supported a $4.8bn takeover bid from Agnico Eagle and Pan American — a rival approach that Griffith said had justified the large premium in the original...
...American Eagle cleared its excess spring and summer merchandise by resorting to sales that hit profits by $30mn....
...Canadians Agnico Eagle and Pan American eventually won Yamana with a $4.8bn joint bid in cash and shares Gold prices suggest that the bidding partners timed their swoop well....
...Adding to the appeal is the LSF’s explicit focus on green bonds and other debt instruments supporting sustainable development — a field where trillions of dollars in new finance are needed, as stressed in...
...“What we wanted to do was grow our pipeline, bulk up our South American operations and get a presence in Canada,” he said in an interview....
...It’s good theatre for the press and the American people. But it’s meaningless. The people around Putin have vast fortunes, and the bulk of that is safe from western cops . . ....
...Some US senators are still attacking TikTok as an instrument of Chinese soft power....
...CME will face competition from the North American Derivatives Exchange, which is owned by Crypto.com of Singapore....
...I just did an American movie in Belfast. Streaming platforms have globalised entertainment.”...
...China is already the world’s largest piano market, selling about 400,000 pianos a year to its 40mn practising pianists, compared to the 30,000 sold annually to the 6mn Americans who play regularly, Steinway...
...“But overwhelmingly large companies in America, they became poker chips and people were buying and selling like three-day calls, two-day calls,” he said, referring to derivatives that became the choice instrument...
...New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc vs Bruen The court’s conservative majority last week recognised a constitutional right to carry firearms outside the home, striking down a century-old New York...
...The four people arrested before Sato include the Japanese head of equity trading, Makoto Yamada, and the American head of the equities division, Trevor Hill....
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