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...Kirkland & Ellis has hired senior private equity partners Ian Barratt and Sinead O’Shea from Simpson Thacher & Bartlett in London, per Financial News....
...He will be replaced by Crawford Gillies, a senior independent director on the board. Brunswick Group has hired Tom Deegan as a partner based in Hong Kong....
...Management at Tel Aviv-listed Navitas Petroleum LP apparently believes that the potential rewards at Sea Lion outweigh the risks....
...China is also grappling with a massive outbreak of African swine fever, which has ravaged the country’s farms and is set to shrink its pig population by almost a third....
...“So [as a farmer] you don’t have any choice at all,” said EAS Sarma, a civil rights activist and former senior bureaucrat, of the LPS. “It is not voluntary at all....
...Heirs apparent to Kravis and Roberts identified KKR appointed two executives to senior roles this week as it identified heirs apparent to Henry Kravis and George Roberts, the co-founders of the $138bn US...
...The deal provides Informa with 30 exhibitions, giving it 16 of the top 250 US exhibitions, including Natural Products Expo, Farm Progress, and WasteExpo....
...One senior lawyer, who asked not to be named, said Carlyle was fortunate that Symantec was willing to renegotiate terms....
...(WSJ) It’s a big day for US jobs Non-farm payroll data are out and economists are expecting a 245,000 increase in jobs to follow from the 295,000 increase in February....
...We are ushered by numerous flunkeys – who turn out to be rather senior members of Mr Entrecanales’ team – through anteroom after anteroom before being introduced into the presence....
...The company has asked shareholders in five companies – Jardine Matheson, Jardine Strategic, Hong Kong Land, Dairy Farm International and Mandarin Oriental – to vote next month to approve a downgrade of its...
...Non-farm payrolls data are forecast to show the world’s biggest economy added 185,000 jobs in November....
...A senior western diplomat in Lisbon said on Wednesday the government was certain to ask the EU and IMF for more leeway on fiscal targets, something analysts have been anticipating since fractures in the...
...However some senior allies said the ruling would not hit the coalition between Letta’s centre-left Democratic Party and Berlusconi’s People of Freedom....
...(Reuters) US non-farm payrolls due out today are expected to show a March gain of 200,000 jobs according to Dow Jones’ survey of economists, or 190,000, according to Bloomberg’s....
...“This will have calmed some fears that the US labour market is capitulating, however this series is very volatile and the focus is firmly on Friday’s [non-farm payrolls] release,” said David Semmens, senior...
...Perhaps we can break below 8 per cent by year end,” said Michael Woolfolk, senior currency strategist at BNY Mellon....
...Last week was the period the labour department surveyed businesses and households for the September non-farm payrolls report, due out on October 7....
...The credit rating company today also downgraded the senior debt of 10 of the nation's 12 Federal Home Loan Banks, from AAA to AA+....
...China demand buoys US pork US pork exports will jump 23 per cent or more this year because of surging demand and prices in China, the world’s top consumer, according to Brett Stuart, the co-founder of farm-industry...
...Announcing a new strategy on counter-terrorism, John Brennan, President Barack Obama’s senior adviser in the field, referred to drone strikes in unusually blunt terms....
...It all has the potential to be a multi-billion-dollar circus, and even supporters in US officialdom are wary of betting the farm on the process....
...The Labor Department said non-farm productivity surged to an annual rate of 9.5 per cent during the third quarter, the quickest pace since 2003....
...The US non-farm payrolls number is pretty much in line with Reuters’ consensus of -648,000, although we note the previous month’s number has been revised down to -655,000 from -598,oo0....
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