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...General Motors’ Cruise faces probes by numerous federal and state authorities, including the Department of Justice and Securities and Exchange Commission, after an accident that led to the shutdown of driverless...
...He was also general counsel at Revolution LLC, the venture capital firm founded by Steve Case, former CEO of AOL. Over the years, he has gained a reputation for his approachability....
...Kainos and FDM provide consultants and contractors to corporations and the government to help them with their IT challenges....
...Babcock International has hired former Cobham head David Lockwood as chief executive to drive change at the UK defence contractor. More here....
...What about the other side of the scheme, the Russian “king contractor” Alexander Karmanov?...
...AGP, the existence of “schemes and arrangements” between Mr Kulibayev and ETK, the receipt by Mr Kulibayev of money from contracts related to the pipeline, nor any benefit having been gained by Petroleum LLC...
...(FT) Chapter eleventh hour Intense, around-the-clock negotiations in the General Motors building saved Eddie Lampert’s plan to buy Sears out of bankruptcy....
...At a technical level, when everything is broken into bytes, there is no simple distinction....
...“There’s a bunch of financial regulation that was drafted for banking a very long time ago,” says Sarah Turner, REA’s general counsel....
...He has also said he will provide documents rebutting the “imprecise and baseless assertions” linking the contractors to his wife’s home, but so far the government’s rebuttal has been weak....
...The announcement by Eric Holder, the attorney-general, marks a substantial escalation in US efforts to curb what it claims has been widespread theft of information and technology by Chinese military and...
...The battle for Hess, which will come to a head at the company’s annual meeting on Thursday, reflects rising shareholder activism among US investors in general and particularly in the energy industry....
...Shares in the company fell 3.3 per cent on Monday, and the stock of its rivals General Dynamics and SAIC declined as much as 3 per cent (Reuters)....
...Making financial contracts in general more equity- like means better risk sharing for the entire economy. When house prices rise, both the lender and borrower would benefit....
...Insiders say that General Atlantic Partners, the US buy-out firm, has backed out of a consortium formed by Virgin Money to bid for Northern Rock....
...Shares of defence contractor General Dynamics fell 5.2 per cent to $73.37 after Gulfstream Aerospace, its business jet unit, said that a jet crashed during a test flight on Saturday....
...Lockheed, the largest US defence contractor by sales, said it would not be using any military technology for its reactor control systems....
...There’s restructuring some payment with the contractor, but there’s not… I don’t owe the banks anything on this. So there’s a lot of value here. Real value....
...General Mills, a food and beverage group, added 1.1 per cent to $72, Dollar General, a discount retailer, gained 1 per cent to $30.54 and Walmart, a value retail chain, rose 0.7 per cent to $50.92....
...Northrop, one of the largest US defence contractors, will net $1.1bn in cash, which it will use to fund a stock repurchase, the company said....
...In other deals, Northrop Grumman, one of the largest US defence contractors, agreed to sell TASC, its advisory services unit, for $1.65bn to private equity groups General Atlantic and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts...
...Emaar, a major state-controlled real estate developer and Arabtec, a large contractor, were particularly badly hit in the day’s trading....
...Nanan Soekarna, police inspector-general, showed footage from security cameras that appeared to show Ibrohim surveying the hotels prior to the July 17 attack....
...Legal & General led the insurers lower after its first-half operating profit missed market expectations due to investment losses....
...Investec “buy” advice pushed QinetiQ, the defence contractor, up 5.3 per cent to 133¾p....
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