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...A month later the New York-based firm said it had acquired private credit firm Iron Park, a business set up by Tripp Smith, a former Blackstone credit executive....
...In April, it acquired credit manager Iron Park as it expanded into investments benefiting from higher interest rates....
...Last week, the company said it would double its spending on its theme parks to $60bn over the next decade....
...But its returns have tailed off over the past two years....
...For the past two weeks, I’ve been zipping around San Francisco in driverless taxis, transfixed by the way they can navigate busy streets so smoothly....
...Last year, General Atlantic bought Tripp Smith’s credit firm Iron Park as it decided to push into debt-based investments....
...Collectively over history we've spent two weeks of human history on the Moon....
...Two other unnamed bidders have also made takeover proposals to Qualtrics, the company said in a securities filing on Monday, signalling that the takeover effort may draw new bids....
...The test accurately detected three cancers and produced two false positives, she adds....
...One former senior Disney executive said that when the pandemic struck, pummelling Disney’s theme park and cinema businesses, any lingering notion of a big Hulu international expansion died....
...Blackstone has deployed an epic spigot of cash over the past two years into what looks like the tail-end of a golden age for buyouts....
...On a winter morning two years ago, the doorman stationed there took a hard look at two uninvited guests....
...But picture, from Echo Park to Victoria Park, the truest urban villages. How many are car-less? We have, remember, lived through more than one kind of “energy crisis” in recent years....
...Disney’s theme park business is also recovering strongly despite the closure of parks in China, analysts said....
...And we maybe see 50 or 60 of them on the screen in Park City. What does that say? It says that humans writ large want to create....
...Cost-cutting can also backfire if it ends up diminishing the quality of Disney’s theme park experience or TV and film content....
...Beaches, mountains, parks....
...The investment ties together two high-profile figures in markets....
...Early backers can park cash in the vehicles for up to two years, accumulating interest, while receiving warrants that can be converted into relatively low-priced shares once a blank-cheque company merges...
...Disney, which makes billions of dollars a year from theme parks and tickets to its blockbuster movies, in addition to streaming, has dropped 30 per cent this year....
...The 130,000 tickets for Adele’s two headline appearances at BST Hyde Park were snapped up within moments of being released....
...The research park’s own website says Alder is “a research laboratory focused on mycelium”....
...Instead, the hunt for an owner shines a light on the opaque, convoluted ownership structures that have helped make UK property a preferred destination for the global wealthy to park their millions (or billions...
...Its first module was launched more than two decades ago....
...If approved, the two companies will form a 50-50 joint venture valued at €19.6bn....
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