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...They had $336,000 in cash and $465,000 in cashiers’ checks ripped from a safe during a raid in October 1985. Two days later, agents seized $1.2mn from the trunk of their Volkswagen Jetta....
...What else we’re reading Travis Kalanick quietly expands kitchen venture across Latin America The billionaire founder of Uber has secretly built a network of “dark kitchens” across Latin America....
...ECB targets banks’ windfall The European Central Bank is examining ways to stop lenders earning billions of euros in extra profit from the €2.2tn programme of ultra-cheap subsidised loans it offered during...
...And Branaire-Ducru (£325), a well-balanced St-Julien, had none of the foot-dragging overripeness of some 2010s — in fact, it positively danced on the palate and seemed distinctly 21st rather than 20th century...
...17.00 BST (GMT + 1)....
...Shares in Bank of America and Goldman Sachs climbed sharply after fourth-quarter results from both beat estimates....
..., of which they own approximately 15 per cent....
...The promissory notes are guaranteed by PDVSA Petróleo, a subsidiary that receives payments of about $30m a day from buyers of Venezuelan oil in several bank accounts situated outside Venezuela, which Mr...
..., approximately half a million people would have been saved if the Tesla autopilot was universally available....
...GKN says that, under the terms of Melrose’s proposed takeover, the combined group would have net borrowing of approximately 2.5 times earnings – a level “materially higher” than GKN’s current leverage of...
...But you’re not all head of GKN’s automotive division and facing a hostile takeover bid from Melrose, are you?...
...But, on a statutory basis, group revenues for the year to July 29 are expected to fall to approximately £780m, from £822m last year....
...Easy: “Helicopters and drones will film the Iceberg from the air while a fleet of fast rescue boats will film from the water,” allowing pictures of the iceberg draped with your logo to be beamed around the...
...bank chief warning of excessive debt....
...Premier Inn now expects to continue to win market share, increasing its position from approximately 9 per cent in 2016 to more than 12 per cent beyond 2020....
...The People’s Bank of China set the midpoint around which the renminbi can trade 2 per cent in either direction against the dollar at Rmb6.5277 — 0.4 per cent softer from the previous day....
...The economic calendar is light (all times London): 10.00: eurozone consumer price index 16.00: Bank of England governor Mark Carney speaks at International Monetary Fund The markets at 07:56 Asian markets...
...Investment banks seized on that weakness of the foreign money to use weaknesses in the system to promote badly underwritten mortgage products and pass them off as money-good....
...The highlights of the economic diary are as follows (all times London): 08.00: Spain consumer price index 08.00: ECB’s Weidmann to speak 09.30: UK consumer price index 09.30: UK house prices 10.30: Germany...
...These include efficiencies from simplifying and harmonising platforms – approximately 31 per cent of the identified savings, eliminating overlap in distribution, and rationalisation of central functions....
...Asian stocks have been jumpy overnight as investors await the conclusions of Bank of Japan and Federal Reserve meetings tomorrow....
...The latest setback for his Atlas Merchant Capital vehicle is the withdrawal of Carlyle from a consortium bid for shares in Barclays Africa....
...Transfers of wealth from bank shareholders to the US government are continuing with a $1.1bn settlement by Royal Bank of Scotland over alleged mis-selling of mortgage backed securities....
...Friday 21:00 BST....
...In the US, Bank of America, Netflix, Charles Schwab, Yahoo and Hasbro will all report quarterly earnings....
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