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...Google will detail more of its plans in AI and search at its annual I/O developer conference on May 14 and 15 at its headquarters in Mountain View, California....
...“It’s on the sponsor to defend their portfolio,” said John Kline, managing director of New Mountain Capital....
...Few, except for private equity with its mountains of “dry powder”, were thinking about acquisitions. But it was nothing a bit of financial stimulus couldn’t fix....
...The cash mountain Even the heightened rate of buybacks may not cap the growth in Alphabet’s cash mountain....
...Helen Dietz, a principal in Mountain View, California, for the financial adviser Aspiriant, says some of her clients reserve as much as a quarter of their portfolios for investment in start-ups and other...
...Japan’s market is shut for the Mountain Day public holiday. The yen is 0.1 per cent stronger this morning, on track for a third straight day of gains, at ¥101.20 per dollar....
...This whopping, raw cow’s-milk cheese, made by Small Brook Farm in Vermont, owes a big debt to European mountain cheeses such as Beaufort....
...It is a reflection, some say, of worries about the destabilising effects of the industry’s mountain of debt....
...Credit markets are more uncertain and refinancing a mountain of debt is not likely to be as easy in the future as it has been in the era of quantitative easing by the Federal Reserve....
...The carved teak frame of the front door was commissioned from the Mozambican master carver Matsemela ike Nkoana....
...As for the late 1990s/early 2000s crisis, the Reserve Bank of Australia has a history of Chinese banking with a breakout box that summarises it in a little more detail for the curious....
...The all-cash offer from MidAmerican Holdings, a Berkshire subsidiary that provides power in the midwest and Rocky Mountain regions, values NV at $10bn, including debt.”...
...Though a high price, the figure will make barely a dent in Microsoft’s $38.2bn net cash mountain....
...Ramalinga Raju, admitted in January to fixing its books for six years, even inventing a cash reserve of over $1bn, many feared Satyam would be closed down, leaving its estimated 48,000 employees jobless....
...Just as the deal was being done, an era of wheeling-and-dealing fuelled by mountains of cheap debt was coming to an end....
...Such restricted areas run from the Rocky Mountains to Alaska....
...Richard Ford’s selection includes classic stories by authors including Eudora Welty and Raymond Carver, but also incorporates newer voices....
...Cross-margining helps funds use capital more efficiently, says Sam Cole, chief operating officer of Blue Mountain, a credit hedge fund....
...Burlington gets about 84 per cent of its production and 89 per cent of its reserves from North America, with most of that located in the Rocky Mountain region and Canada....
...WMC’s jewel is Olympic Dam in South Australia, a mine sitting on more than one-third of the world’s uranium reserves....
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