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...Weed killer Years after Bayer completed its $63bn takeover of US seeds and chemicals group Monsanto, the cost of the deal continues to grow, The New York Times reports....
...“The great 2020 money grab” — that’s what Carson Block, the swashbuckling short-seller behind Muddy Waters, declared of special purpose acquisition companies as last year drew to a close....
...But Carson Block, founder of Muddy Waters Capital, says the primary causes of recent market dysfunction are the prevalence of passive investing and leverage....
...Management wants to push forward with integrating Monsanto, despite the company’s poor public image and questionable practices....
...Muddy, headed by Carson Block, alleges it has “gotten away with aggressive and unwarranted marks” by manipulating returns metrics and then misleading investors with how it accounts for gains....
...Since Muddy Waters’ report, the company and the short-seller have been trading blows (which, in case you somehow missed it, you can read about here)....
...DD’s Indap v NYU’s Damodaran: Is stock compensation good or bad?...
...(FT) Dockwork ers v robots Dockworkers in Los Angeles are making a last stand against the automation of lucrative port jobs....
...Smart reads David v Goliath Large consumer goods companies are starting to feel the impact of their smaller, more innovative rivals....
...Bombarded Day two of the Bombardier v Boeing tariff scandal and attention has turned on the British government’s motivation to fight back against proposed US action against the Canadian company....
...AT&T’s acquisition of Time Warner and Bayer’s purchase of Monsanto) that are still pending approval from the competition watchdog....
...Birmingham City is already owned by Carson Yeung, a former hairdresser who is currently appealing a money laundering conviction....
...Markets say ‘meh’ While the Trump v Clinton battle may be stirring the front page headlines, financial markets seem unconcerned about any outcome, argues the FT’s Dan McCrum....
...(BBC) Video of the day Google v Apple, round 2 As Google again draws level with Apple as the world’s largest company, John Authers looks at the historic performance of companies once they have become the...
...Recently, their targets have included a growing number of Chinese companies....
...Record special payouts from US companies: A record number of US companies have announced special dividends in recent months in order to escape higher taxes on equity income payments, the FT reports....
...Selections by Ángel Gurría-Quintana … POETRY Red Doc> , by Anne Carson, Jonathan Cape, RRP£12/Knopf, RRP$24.95 In her follow-up to Autobiography of Red , Carson renames her winged hero Geryon as “G”...
...As the extraordinarily long title of Vijay V....
...the fair to their collections and two invested in glass: the National Museum of Wales bought a piece by Rachael Woodman for £7,500 (although small works by this glassmaker were on offer for £600) and the V&...
...In the west, glass-fibre-reinforced plastics, developed by Monsanto to protect radar equipment on US military aircraft, were re-worked into moulded furniture designed by Charles and Ray Eames for Herman...
...Zoom: The Global Race to Fuel the Car of the Future By Iain Carson and Vijay V....
...● Zoom, by Iain Carson and Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran, which describes how Big Oil and the world’s carmakers are striving to meet the challenge of developing new fuels and technologies....
...Zoom: The Global Race to Fuel the Car of the Future, by Iain Carson and Vijay V Vaitheeswaran Published by Twelve/Hachette Book Group (US and UK) The book describes how Big Oil and the world’s carmarkers...
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