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...Based in Santa Barbara in Southern California, the company had been targeting a valuation of $2.5bn-$3bn for initial public offering, people familiar with the matter had said earlier this year....
...At the headquarters of Sonos, in the Californian beachside town of Santa Barbara, the connected speaker company built a soundproofed room that its employees call “The Bunker”....
...Additional reporting by Nicole Bullock...
...Earlier this year, Mr Eastham took over as head of the US CMBS ratings group, replacing Barbara Duka who left the business....
...“Illinois is in crisis, absolute financial crisis, and there is no way we can dig ourselves out of the crisis without increased revenues,” said Barbara Flynn Currie, House majority leader....
...The Bullock Family, who had led a prosperous life in England’s West Midlands before decamping to Wales, set up their smallholding in 1978....
...depends on the cost, which was lower than equity because investors expected bad events would not happen – and it depends on whether regulators continue to regard hybrids as capital rather than debt,” says Barbara...
...A fund totalling close to $3bn BlackRock launched last year to buy leveraged loans was taken up predominantly by pension funds inside and outside the US, said Barbara Novick, a vice-chairman at the firm...
...It costs about £9,000 a year to run and, with the sales of lambs and bullocks, it just fails to break even. You couldn’t run this farm as a job but that is not what it is....
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