Hints and tips:
...On Thursday, Fiona Hill, the former senior director for European and Russian affairs at the National Security Council and once a top aide to John Bolton, will testify before the inquiry....
...Ping An says that government agencies provided them with raw data that concealed all personal information, meaning the company only has access to a collective, anonymised data set where data points cannot...
...A three-bedroom villa in Taormina is on the market for €1.35m with E&V....
...Other suggestions in Congress range from a ban on prospective employers assessing candidates’ credit history to restrictions on insurance companies using it to determine premiums....
...“Trends are developing . . . that we took for granted were not an issue in Canada,” says Gabriel Dechaine, an analyst at National Bank of Canada....
...The effort included the distribution of emails obtained by hacking into computers at the Democratic National Committee....
...Finally, Cisco has to be wary about the leak from Shadow Brokers, a hacker group that claims to have obtained internal tools used by the US National Security Agency, one of which was a flaw in a Cisco product...
...Earlier this month, the agency extended the deadline to file proof of losses until April....
...In addition to its scooping up vast amounts of foreign communications, the National Security Agency is also scooping up Americans’ phone calling records and Internet traffic, according to documents revealed...
...“Once a big company like Procter & Gamble goes public with this, it almost gives permission for other marketers to do it,” said Nancy Hill, chief executive of the American Association of Advertising Agencies...
...The agency added: “DoJ would be wrong in contending that S&P ratings were motivated by commercial considerations and not issued in good faith.” Shares in McGraw-Hill fell 13.8 per cent....
...However, Sarah Wilson, chief executive of Manifest, the proxy voting agency, does not believe investors will become unnerved....
...There will be a crop freeze in which the company cannot secure enough oranges later that year. Then there’s a national bee shortage (I kid you not) that threatens the rest of the fruit supply chain....
...State agencies – many more of which will now be under Republican control – could also seek waivers from new federal regulations that force insurance companies to spend 85 per cent of premiums they receive...
...The “resolution authority” Mr Geithner and Mr Bernanke have teamed up to obtain is modelled on the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the agency that winds up insolvent banks in the US....
...Most difficult of all is to address cross-border collapses, since crisis resolution is usually financed by national taxpayers....
...But the move is facing resistance on Capitol Hill amid discontent in both parties about the way the first tranche was spent....
...The writer is chairman and chief executive officer of C.V. Starr....
...The company was a powerful influence on Capitol Hill....
...As the subprime credit chain has grown in recent years, it has left banks exposed not simply to these assets but to a host of other investment institutions as well, including insurance companies, pension...
...Agencies such as the World Bank argue for a grand bargain that ends in freer food trade....
...If there was any doubt that Chuck Schumer, the senior senator from New York, is one of the most influential powerbrokers on Capitol Hill, it evaporated late on Monday night....
...Its $4.1bn purchase of Armor Holdings, the US company that makes military utility vehicles and high-tech armour for them, was waved through by the DoJ’s antitrust police and the inter-agency committee on...
...Where Manchester has outperformed its Midlands rival is in projecting its strong identity at a national level....
...Should we start worrying about bans and insurance companies with respect to this re-pricing?...
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