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...Gains for companies such as insurance group Skyward Specialty and biotech company Rayzebio more than offset losses for high profile tech flops like Instacart....
...In January, the annualised rate of second-hand home sales hit 4mn, 38 per cent lower than in January 2022, according to the National Association of Realtors....
...Trevor Boeckmann, 34, another PredictIt plaintiff, is a public defence attorney in New York City who works to reunite separated families. His trading specialty is cabinet appointments....
...Holdings of UK-listed companies by British pension and insurance funds have plunged from about half of their portfolios to 4 per cent over the past two decades, according to data from Ondra....
...The responses point to higher fuel and utility bills, rising National Insurance and business taxes, supply chain disruption and the combination of higher wages and labour shortages....
...Yet Beijing shows no sign of changing course. A new layer of zero-Covid infrastructure is even now descending on cities across China....
...The problem is that they’ve created this huge fiscal hole by doing a couple of really big tax moves, which people didn’t care about, frankly. The national insurance rise had already gone through....
...in order to increase sales, in litigation brought by three California counties and the city of Oakland....
...(FT) Europe’s fastest growing companies The FT also publishes today its annual ranking of Europe’s fastest growing companies, including a new leader with a focus on renewable energy....
...tycoon Jimmy Lai for allegedly breaching the city’s new national security law....
...“The big, global events will have a very comprehensive policy,” said Edel Ryan, of the special risks practice at insurance broker Marsh JLT Specialty....
...But the shift would threaten the personality-led investment culture that is the DNA of the City....
...The lawsuits brought by San Francisco, Oakland and New York City are under appeal, having initially been thrown out....
...Institutions such as Daiichi Life, a Japanese insurance company, and individual investors have invested in the bonds....
...Bert Hofman, director of the East Asian Institute at the National University of Singapore, predicts that “first-quarter growth year on year may well be negative, between -2.0 and -6.5 [per cent]”....
...(FT) NRA v San Francisco The National Rifle Association sued San Francisco on Monday over the city’s recent declaration that the gun-rights lobby was a “domestic terrorist organisation.”...
...That victory propelled her on to the national stage, and into the US Senate six years later. At her campaign launch rally in her hometown of Oakland in January, an estimated 20,000 people showed up....
..., for example) Vicky Pryce: There will be some tinkering with taxes, maybe even some windfall taxes and a sorting out of anomalies in the area of national insurance and an end to the triple lock....
...Rotork has the single largest exposure in our coverage (~50% v 60% in 2014 though)....
...The City of London’s main lobby group this week signalled a retreat from fighting to retain the EU financial “passport”, one of two models that would allow companies to continue to sell their services throughout...
...Others are more frivolous: Yasuda Kasai, the Japanese insurance company, paying $40m for Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” in 1987; and Chinese billionaire Liu Yiqian’s 2015 purchase of a Modigliani painting for $170m...
...LA’s lack of an NFL team since 1995 — when both the Rams and the Raiders quit the town to move to other cities, in the latter case Oakland — triggered one of the longest-running soap operas in the recent...
...Verónica Bueno, an insurance manager in Mexico’s second city of Guadalajara and who is visiting the capital for meetings, says a 90-minute lunch break in her home town is standard....
...online insurance marketplace created through the Affordable Care Act of 2010, otherwise known as “Obamacare”....
...Its excellence should not have been a surprise: Coogler’s debut Fruitvale Station was a potent account of the 2009 killing of the young African-American Oscar Grant by transit police in Oakland, California...
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