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...Both DraftKings and Barstool, from which casino group Penn Entertainment exited its investment this week, declined interview requests....
...Last year, the authorities agreed a deal to sell debt-ridden national airline Air India to conglomerate Tata Group, ending a two-decade hunt for a buyer....
...The national insurance rise had already gone through. It had been passed as a health and social care levy, which people broadly bought into at the time....
...While the UK was creating the National Health Service after the second world war, bringing hospitals into a single public system, the US was focused on health insurance....
...Others are being forced to accept services from sponsors such as energy groups or banks, instead of simply cash lump sums....
...As one official at the US National Transportation Safety Board said: “We think the way [the system] was designed was not adequate to the task” The death last May of tech enthusiast Joshua Brown was the...
...US court told PwC cut corners in Colonial audit Control+C, Control+V....
...Mr Brisbane joins the Edinburgh-based insurer and asset manager from Brown Shipley, the private bank....
...Kathrin Muehlbronner, sovereign risk group, Moody’s Investor’s Service Ltd We believe that the Bank of England will probably stay put in 2017....
...(Financial Times) Japan’s services sector finally expanded in July, following three months of declines in the wake of a national sales tax being lifted from 5 to 8 per cent on April 1....
...Ms Obolensky has worked in microfinance for American International Group, the insurance company, and as an associate consultant for Bain & Company....
...and multi-nationals abroad....
...“In this balance-sheet restructuring process, the uncertainties right now are within housing and with governments,” says Richard Brown, chief economist at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, which...
...He occupies a similar role with Zurich Insurance Group, albeit at a lower fee. He gives speeches at a rate of up to $300,000 a session, depending on the location, according to aides....
...“The warm words of comfort from the G20 on global responses to global problems are mutating into a nightmarish tangle of fragmented regional and national proposals,” says Bob Penn, a London-based lawyer...
...Gordon Brown, who doubled the national debt?”...
...From the Guardian: Alistair Darling wanted to impose a VAT rise above 17.5% in his pre-budget report to raise extra revenue but was persuaded by Gordon Brown to opt for an increase in national insurance...
...Graeme Leach, chief economist at the Institute of Directors, said if ministers wanted to make a tangible difference to competitiveness they should “reverse the planned [increase] in National Insurance contributions...
...Investors in the new fund include IAM National Pension Fund, State of Oregon, and Sentry Insurance....
...a holiday from paying National Insurance (NI) on their staff....
...by Bertram Group Ltd, please go to: www.ft.com/bookshop...
...Dunfermline’s chairman, Jim Faulds, revealed on Sunday that the group had been in touch with the Financial Services Authority for the past six months....
...On graduating in 1980, she took key marketing and strategy roles at Asea Brown Boveri, Boston Consulting Group and Motorola before joining PepsiCo in 1994....
...In the past, one of JP Morgan’s longstanding blue-chip clients had been the mighty insurance company American International Group....
...Bondholders may also own insurance in the form of credit default swaps, which means they could profit from this insurance if the company fails (see below)....
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