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...Vail Resorts, the largest ski operator in North America, is planning to shake up the equipment market by piloting a scheme that does away with rental shops....
...By region, retail sales in Asia Pacific, dominated by China, are expected to be three times the value of those in North America. While retail has led the way in digital migration, it is not alone....
...The same day, Google emailed its workers to inform them that an employee who had been in the Zurich office had tested positive for the virus. The Internet of (Five) Things 1....
...Laurene Powell Jobs, the widow of late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, has also organised her “social change organisation” Emerson Collective as an LLC....
...Adams has been promoted from co-head of North America ECM while Fleming, who joined Citi from Bank of America last year, was elevated from the equivalent top role for Emea. More here....
...Here’s Investec (sell) to summarise: [L]ockdowns are impacting consumption in North America (c. 30% of sales), Europe (c. 20% of sales), India (c. 10% of sales), Africa (12% of sales) and many countries...
...Causeway Capital Management LLC, the LA hedge fund, has declared 4.88 per cent of Micro Focus....
...Second, Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin might want to send a slice of cake to Bill Gates, since it was arguably the US v Microsoft antitrust case 17 years ago, in which Microsoft was ultimately...
...held in an entity called Turing Pharmaceuticals; (c) the album “Once Upon a Time in Shaolin” by the Wu Tang Clan, as well as any proceeds derived from the sale of such album; (d) the album “The Carter V”...
...Growth was more muted in North America, up 1.7 per cent, and in western Europe, up 2.6 per cent....
...RBR is based in the town of Küsnacht near Zurich. On Wall Street overnight, all three of the biggest equity gauges hit record closings....
...Organic growth in North America, however, had been “flat in a context of soft consumer demand”....
...Toshiba confirmed this week that if no buyer materialises, it will float smart meter subsidiary Landis+Gyr in Zurich later this year....
...A 2009 Supreme Court case involving prescription drug labels, Wyeth v Levine, greenlighted state laws that are stricter than federal laws....
Loeb’s Third Point accused company of being ‘stuck in its old ways’
...“The real concern for most companies contemplating an IPO isn’t the challenge of going public, it is the obligations and opportunities that come with being public,” said Lise Buyer, a partner at Class V...
...“It is totally new for Nestlé,” said Jean-Philippe Bertschy, analyst at Vontobel in Zurich. “It was thought too big for an activist.”...
...• Principal Global Investors, the $411bn Des Moines-based multi-boutique asset manager, has opened an office in Zurich and hired Martin Bloch as country head for Switzerland....
...In the Salman case, the Supreme Court reaffirmed its 1983 ruling in Dirks v SEC, which held that when an insider gives trading information to a relative or friend, it is effectively the same as if the insider...
...He had been prosecuted after alerting shareholders to a fraud at Equity Funding Corporation of America, an insurance company....
...(Masslive.com) Campaign commentary Thank Reagan and Bill Clinton for Trump’s dog whistle ways (Sally Kohn, Time) The media v Trump (Ezra Klein, Vox) Trump may cost the GOP a generation of voters (Michael...
...Mr Baldinger was previously chief executive of RobescoSAM, the Zurich-based sustainability investments specialist....
...● Lindy Freeman has moved to BlackRock as North America head of business development for the financial institutions group....
...However, ULA’s reliability record may be challenged by a significant looming upheaval facing its main rocket, the Atlas V....
...addition to the release of weaker-than-expected April trade data on Sunday, investors were also digesting reports in local media that the country’s economic performance would be “L-shaped” rather than “V-...
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