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...CD&R declined to comment....
...Cassettes, and later recordable CDs, also heralded the age of the playlist, wrestling sequencing off the artist....
...The products, branded “Cardz”, could be inserted into a computer like a CD to play digital content....
...The other associates are Anil Ambani, chairman of India’s Reliance Group, and Jeff Skoll, chairman of Participant Media....
...Earnings reports include Kraft Heinz, Time Inc., News Corp, Walt Disney and Weight Watchers....
...Samsung saga Samsung C&T’s shareholders have voted in favour of its controversial acquisition by sister company Cheil Industries, despite a vocal campaign against the merger by US activist fund Elliott Associates...
...(Reuters) McKesson admitted defeat in its $8.6bn bid for Celesio, the German-based medicines distribution group, after a battle with Elliott Associates , the activist hedge fund, over the deal....
...Janssen Pharmaceuticals Inc., a unit of Johnson & Johnsonthat makes Risperdal, noted that the drug had been approved for a number of pediatric uses....
...Mr Jiang is a close associate of Zhou Yongkang, the man in charge of China’s sprawling internal security and intelligence services until March this year, and his downfall has raised expectations that Mr...
...(Financial Times) Time Warner in talks to spin off magazines: “Time Warner is in preliminary talks to spin off most of its Time Inc and IPC Media magazine businesses into a publicly traded joint venture...
...Rothschild’s proposals were scuppered after a share sale by an associate of the Bakries undercut his voting power....
...The university has had online programmes for more than 20 years, transitioning from cd-roms to DVDs to internet-based learning as technology progressed....
...up +0.11 at 117.49 Light Crude (Nymex) down -0.37 at 95.49 100 Oz Gold (Comex) up +4.50 at 1,613 Copper (Comex) down -5.55 at 367.55 10-year government bond yields (%) US 2.01% UK 2.20% Germany 1.63% CDS...
...The IAC bid is above the $270m offer that the Times has preliminarily accepted from Answers.com, which is backed by private equity firms Summit Partners and TA Associates, said one of the sources (Reuters...
...Isda committee decision on SNS Bank CDS weird or what? Lisa is a little confused about the restructuring credit event that the Isda determinations committee voted for on Wednesday....
...Looming cost cuts at banks will drive further automation, according to Jay Bennett, managing director at Greenwich Associates....
...The school puts modules on its computer servers and provides students with CDs that Jennifer Francis, senior associate dean, describes as “very, very souped-up Powerpoint presentations”....
...They include Rakuten, Japan’s largest online retailer which is expanding rapidly overseas, and Alpha Associates, a Swiss private equity firm....
...“Trace, or a tape, all involve financial instruments that are fungible,” said Don Thompson, associate general counsel at JPMorgan Chase....
...I loved my albums: maybe it was the cover art, I don’t know, but you could never feel that way about a CD, could you?” Not everyone agrees....
...From 1991 to 1995, Superintendent Dinallo was a Litigation Associate with the Manhattan law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkin, Wharton & Garrison....
...“It shows the power of our diversified business model as well as the ability of our associates to execute....
...Chanos decided that his hedge fund, Kynikos Associates, would pull more than $1 billion of its money from a Morgan Stanley account....
...Over $400 billion in bank- and finance-related capital has been raised during the past year, a decent amount of it, by the way, having been bought by yours truly and my associates at PIMCO....
...Buffett reiterated that he and long-term associate Charlie Munger were not bothered by the short term swings in earning that stemmed from accounting rules requiring that companies mark down unrealised gains...
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