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...American Airlines, the most heavily indebted carrier and the only one so far to have said it will certainly take the second bailout, will emerge with the government holding an interest equal to 12 per cent...
...German-headquartered Qiagen and MSD, the company known as Merck in North America, will reveal more than £1bn of investment in London and Manchester, creating up to 1,750 jobs....
...A 2009 Supreme Court case involving prescription drug labels, Wyeth v Levine, greenlighted state laws that are stricter than federal laws....
...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...
...On the trail Why don’t Americans trust Clinton?...
...He concentrates on building collections to order that often become multi-generational holdings for families....
...(WSJ) COMMENTS etc For Moscow, Ukraine is always ‘Little Russia’ (Reuters) Europe has to stop hiding beneath the bedcovers (Financial Times, Stephens) US v China: is this the new cold war?...
...For the past four quarters, same-store sales in Coach’s core North American market have risen less than 1 per cent on average....
...To be fair to McCain, he has actually been very principled in his opposition to torture – so perhaps the debate is better phrased as libertarians v neocons; or isolationists v interventionists....
...A sign at the entrance directing visitors to the “Apple v Samsung” case should also say “Samsung v Apple”, one lawyer suggested....
...Mr Obama’s administration predicted a V-shaped recovery, based on the historical experience of the 1970s and 1980s. Not this time....
...We learn geology after the earthquake, wrote 19th-century American essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson....
...Honda is also expected to introduce a redesigned CR-V late next year....
...Act V. Manhattan and Washington. The fool is exposed: his parcels are empty. He is banished. King Sandy, his reputation tarnished, is deposed....
...The stock market has thus recovered from all of the separate horrors – such as the near-death of American International Group, the confidence-shattering loss taken by a money market fund and the rash of...
...In effect, the financial sector – or parts of it – is seeing a V-shaped rebound, but the economy as a whole is facing a more protracted U-shaped recovery, or worse, some economists believe, the possibility...
...“These indicators don’t just follow a V-shape, they will falter. The question is to what extent we’ve now double-counted any good news,” said Mr Isherwood....
...Economists dispute the nature of the recovery – is it a bounce-back “v” or a double-dip “w” – while old market hands caution that the summer rally could eventually give way to a correction....
...With seemingly a new lease of life, the next day Mr Geithner argued for sweeping new powers to wind up bank holding companies....
...Goldman’s Vintage V fund last week closed to new investors after 10 months of fundraising, having surpassed its goal of $5bn....
...If those packages of debt turn bad – or even worse than they had already been reckoned to be – that would hit the investors that are holding them hard....
...Oh, and also, if you’re a company director, don’t pledge company holdings as loan collateral, a la David Ross....
...Cynthia Carroll Joined Anglo American, the mining giant, as chief executive in 2007. Joined Alcan in 1989 after eight years as petroleum geologist in oil exploration for Amoco....
...“He could see around corners,” says Edward Matthews, one of Mr Greenberg’s most senior lieutenants at AIG and then at C.V. Starr, his investment vehicle....
...It bought United Defense Industries, the maker of Bradley fighting vehicles, for $4bn in 2005, and Armor Holdings last year for $4.5bn....
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