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...A bank’s business model centres on the arbitrage between its funding costs and lending income. Borrow from customers at, say, 2 or 3 per cent and lend out at 5 or 6 per cent....
...It is also sanctioning Turkey’s Ice Pearl Navigation Corp, whose Yasa Golden Bosphorus ship handled Russian crude bought for more than $80 a barrel....
...Congress shifted funding incentives and created a new policy (the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services programme) to encourage privatisation....
...As Oxford Economics’ Oren Klachkin notes: “Transportation pressures increased in March . . . shipping costs rose and air cargo volumes increased on the month....
...“If you’re not careful, SpaceX will be the only game in town,” says Fatih Ozmen, co-founder of Sierra Nevada Corp, a private US company that has been contracted by Nasa to fly cargo to the International...
...(FT) ByteDance gets seven more days to resolve TikTok US ownership (FT) EY faces mounting pressure to disclose Wirecard details to German parliament (FT) Odey calls on Rio Tinto to change Oyu Tolgoi funding...
...SpaceX on Tuesday topped up its cash reserves ahead of the launch, revealing that it had raised $346m in its latest funding round....
...Compass, a US start-up, attracted $450m of funding from Japan’s SoftBank Vision Fund — the world’s largest tech investor — last year, while in the UK, Yopa has drawn more than £75m....
...During the quarter, SoftBank also led two $400m rounds for a pair of US real estate start-ups, Opendoor Labs and Compass, as well as one of the biggest global deals, a $1bn round for Indian hotel network...
...The cargo throughput in 2017 was 459,839 TEUs, or twenty foot equivalent units, a near doubling since 2011. Cargo handling increased 22 per cent during the first six months of 2018....
...Abandoned or sunken vessels and their cargo have value. But salvage — recovery — is expensive....
...The project is expected to cost $7bn in the first year alone and to require a combination of public and private funding....
...But it is also capable of carrying cargo and human astronauts back to the moon — something that the Trump White House has made a top priority for Nasa....
...“The dirty little secret is that the GSEs largely work,” says Isaac Boltansky, director of policy research at Washington-based Compass Point Research....
...The internal memo to staff at the agency, seen by the Financial Times, was sent on Tuesday afternoon — just as shares in World Acceptance Corp, one of the biggest payday lenders in the country, were soaring...
...SpaceX is currently under contract to perform four Dragon 2 missions to the ISS each year — with three missions carrying cargo and one carrying crew....
...Demand for infrastructure investment funding is meeting resistance from bankers acting under orders from headquarters in Beijing to rein in spendthrift local governments....
...The agency appears to be “girding for battle”, said Isaac Boltansky, analyst at Compass Point in Washington, noting that overdrafts and student loans “are very accessible and relatable to the average American...
...Gleaming new Chinese trains were envisaged, whisking passengers and cargo along at 137mph on about 300 miles of track....
...Michael Tarkan, director of research at Compass Point in Washington DC, said that the Mintel estimates for May were “not entirely surprising....
...For example, Palantir, the Silicon Valley big data analytics company whose funding partly comes from the CIA, opened an engineering office in Seattle in 2015....
...But equally, it was a sign that OnDeck needed the customer connections and the steady funding of Chase, the bank’s huge retail network....
...(Techcrunch) Jet.com fresh funding The shopping startup has closed $350m in new funding, and says it has verbal agreements for another $150m, as it tries to attract a big customer base to compete against...
...At the same time, higher funding costs narrowed the gap between Navient’s net income from its $131bn loan portfolio and the rate it pays on its own debt....
...About half of this amount has already been raised through UK government grants and European funding....
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