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...Antonio Gracias, a former Tesla director who founded private equity group Valor Equity Partners, is also advising him, one person said....
...As Cohen told us: “We also run our business with a massive amount of liquidity both for offence and defence.” And to be fair, it seems that BREIT is (so far) only seeing a slowdown in inflows....
...Marc FilippinoThen how have cannabis companies been doing business and how have they financed their growth without banks? Joshua FranklinIt’s been a bit of a journey for a lot of these companies....
...This is not a normal business cycle downturn. As such, the normal dynamics do not apply....
...I mean come on — this man has a bust of César Chávez in his office and is close friends with AFL-CIO head Richard Trumka....
...This is the banknote trucking business that it is largely selling for about £670m. G4S should be given credit for selling the business at all....
...(Anna Gross) Grit in the oyster Many companies and investors say they try to “do well by doing good”. As a reminder that many still fall short, here’s a little grit in the ESG oyster....
...As companies attempt to draft new rules, they are doing so in the glare of lurid claims emerging about men such as film mogul Harvey Weinstein using their professional power to coerce women into sexual relationships...
...and they started doing that,” says Veronique Lafon-Vinais, of the school of business and management at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology....
...Switzerland best regarded as semi-direct democracy — letter from C H Church in Kent “Sir, While not disagreeing with those who defend the virtues of Swiss direct democracy, I think it should also be pointed...
...I doubt that he is Mexico’s Hugo Chavez, so suspect that a victory for him would create an opportunity to buy, much as Lula's victory did. I also have a hunch that he may not win....
...The web design venture indicated a level of persistence that has always informed Iervolino’s approach to doing business. “Find a way — every time an honest way — to sell what I want,” he says....
...“The government does not want to dialogue, but doing so buys it time,” said Michael Penfold, professor of political science at Caracas’s IESA business school....
...Herb Kelleher It was while sitting in a bar in San Antonio, Texas, in 1967 that Herb Kelleher looked at the map his friend Rollin King had sketched on a cocktail napkin and made a decision, writes Robert...
...US sanctions freeze the US assets of targeted people and companies and prohibit Americans from doing business with them....
...As a result, non-defence federal spending is expected to fall to its lowest level as a share of GDP since the 1960s....
...Mr Lula da Silva and Ms Rousseff’s ruling Workers party has been a traditional friend of regimes considered unpalatable by the US, such as Cuba and Venezuela under the recently deceased Hugo Chávez....
...“People are coming into the country and trying to understand the difficulties of doing business in Mozambique....
...In the lush green hills of central Colombia, Daniel Otero, a flower producer, is gloomy. “This is such a beautiful business, I wouldn’t want it to get rotten....
...I have Antonio, a driver, and he is very good. Perhaps my indulgence is maintaining a very high quality of life in all spheres....
...A week’s all-inclusive package at Clayoquot Wilderness Resort costs from C$9,450 per adult, C$4,725 per child....
...Has the world’s pack leader lost its way and will it lose its position as top dog as a result?...
...Indeed, take the World Bank’s annual “Doing Business” rankings as a barometer, and Latin America’s seven biggest economies come in, on average, 84th out of 183 countries – an improvement of just one place...
...A customer sucks on his cigarette in the stifling heat as he waits for his car to be filled with petrol in Cúcuta, a buzzing Colombian border town....
...the broader European economy as a member of the ECB board....
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