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...Blue Carbon, a private company whose founder and chair Sheikh Ahmed Dalmook al-Maktoum is a member of Dubai’s royal family, is in discussions to acquire management rights to millions of hectares of land...
...And that’s whether it’s merchant families or members of the royal family....
...Et cetera, ad nauseam. The numbers seem to back up the thesis....
...In the US, $9.5bn of credit charges — including loan loss provisions — pushed Wells Fargo to a $2.4bn loss, while profit fell more than 50 per cent at Citi, Bank of America and JPMorgan....
...Credit spreads, eh. Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
...Certainly, the food remains classic and lush (guinea hen with truffles and Madeira et al), and the prices remain high to the point of becoming a sort of performance art....
...It’s worth noting in the context of criticism over Boohoo’s keep-it-in-the-family corporate governance....
...“[South Korea et al] probably don’t belong in an emerging market index, particularly on the debt side,” added Mr Huebler, who said EM investors generally think they are targeting “countries that have a risk...
...The second benefit was that government pressure on the United Auto Workers union allowed GM to cut surplus capacity and eliminate the so-called “jobs bank” which allowed US auto workers to receive 95 per...
...British, Spanish, German and Danish political journalists also skew left of their countries’ centre, says the book Political Journalism in Comparative Perspective, by Erik Albaek, et al....
.../ From Thomas V Czarnowski Mysterious workings of German postal service / From Indermohan Virk An expensive luxury whose day is over / From Jan Manning...
...Statistical studies (see for example Gadea et al) confirm that there has been no significant break in the behaviour of volatility in the five year period since 2008, compared to that experienced during GM...
...Greene herself steers clear of criticising Amazon but she angrily sums up the challenge from Whistl et al like this: “This is not the kind of competition that drives efficiency....
...(Financial Times) Intel on Tuesday laid out plans to leapfrog the smartphone era with a new family of tiny chips for devices designed to be worn, embedded in everyday objects or ingested....
...That figure pales against the total value of the US housing market – $23.7tn at the end of 2012, according to Zillow – but it could grow exponentially if Blackstone et al are able to get their hands on cheap...
...Stronger families. Stronger communities. A stronger America....
...Indeed, “whilst all money is credit, not all credit is money: it is the possibility of transfer that makes the difference”....
...One segment of the market (Open U, U of Phoenix, et al) specialise in delivering online courses for large audiences....
...Osborne praises the independence of the OBR – to laughter from the front bench – Chote et al have managed to overshadow today’s statement. 12.37 The OBR has reduced its assumptions about spare capacity...
...News Corp’s corporate governance has long been seen as a pact between unthreatening directors and compliant shareholders, unwilling or unable to stand up to the wishes of Rupert Murdoch and his family, which...
...He tried to impose stricter corporate governance but met stiff resistance from loyalists to Seif al-Islam Gaddafi....
...“Client interest isn’t al-ways served in investing in [the current benchmarks],” says Kevin Corrigan, head of credit at Lombard Odier Investment Managers....
...In the US and the European Union, SMEs account for 45 per cent and 67 per cent of all economic output respectively....
...Nick Hornby et al followed. Davies deserves this reissue under a new title....
...So, today, in line with what I stated at the State of the Union, I’ve proposed a new jobs tax credit for small business. And here’s how it would work....
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