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...Until then, the PIF had been more development vehicle than SWF — cautious, risk-averse and with just one international investment of note, a stake in a South Korean steelmaker....
...They argue that it makes little sense to ban a non-strategic company such as Rusal while leaving Sberbank, VTB and Gazprom et al still tradeable in the US....
...Anthem Asia has just launched its debut $50m fund with an initial investment of $34.5m from three western development financial institutions: the UK’s CDC Group, the Dutch Good Growth Fund, and the World...
...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...
...(Global Fund) Obesity and development Health workers in the Amazon — one of the world’s most obese areas — believe there is a connection between obesity and brain development....
...The best known is Tesla and Panasonic’s huge Nevada “gigafactory”....
...Braquo, a gritty crime thriller that won an Emmy for best international TV series in 2012, is being remade for Russian audiences....
...PayPal is perhaps the best example a company that understood that fact....
...Either the sovereigns that matter will, after many years of austerity, restore solvency or there will be orderly restructuring of Italy, Spain et. al. in addition to Greece, Portugal and Ireland....
...In theory, the Commission has the best view into the system....
...Clansman was advised by Co-operative Development Scotland, a subsidiary of Scottish Enterprise, the government-funded development agency....
...And, as the new faces took their places next to Wintour, Menkes et al for the Dolce & Gabbana show, the Italian brand’s in-house cameras rolled, streamlining the event directly on to YouTube....
...On Monday, Kraft Foods, the world’s second biggest food group launched a $10.2bn (€7bn, £6.2bn) offer for Cadbury, the cherished British confectionery group....
...Mr Blair’s main priority while travelling around the Arabian peninsula and as far as central Asia is to raise money for Palestinian development....
...As for Japan’s deteriorating economic climate – not to mention the downwards direction of the Nikkei average – the situation may well become “more difficult” and Sugiyama et al may have to change their minds...
...Abu Dhabi’s development, the officials say, requires at times more active and nimble vehicles, particularly as the emirate tries to tap into the expertise of international groups and import their technology...
...What really happened at Northern Rock, Royal Bank of Scotland et al? This gives you a clearer idea....
...After spending billions of dollars at the wrong price for shares in Merrill Lynch, Barclays et al, Singapore’s state-backed investment body Temasek says it still “sees value” in banking stocks in the US...
...Soon after the historic visit by Richard Nixon to Mao Zedong’s China in 1972, Ron Shelp, a senior employee at American International Group, was summoned to Hank Greenberg’s office....
...The proposals Berlin had made during its presidency of the Group of Eight industrial nations last year “elicited mockery at best or were seen as a typical example of Germans’ penchant for over-regulation...
...Al Pacino, in the autumn....
...Stone says the best way to find out who is an extremist – or Takfir, as he calls them – is the religious discussion group....
...Many institutional and international investors sold their shares in the company because of the lack of clarity regarding the land on offer....
...In the 1970s, the Kuwait Investment Authority led the way, buying slices of large western groups such as BP....
...When it became clear that the government was taking a controlling stake in regional real estate giant Emaar Properties via a land-for-shares swap with the ruler’s Dubai Holding group, many international...
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