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...Companies that disclose suspected criminal activity to US federal prosecutors could receive up to a 75 per cent reduction in penalties, as the justice department seeks to sweeten the incentives for co-operation...
...Trump’s hedge fund troubles Ever since Donald Trump struck a deal to take his social media company public through a Spac, a number of hedge funds have been waiting to cash in on a giant arbitrage....
...The commodities trader would need to sweeten the deal, or at least offer a portion of it in cash, to win over the mining dynasty....
...“There is no question that many people are saying, ‘I’m done working for poverty wages’,” said Donald Taylor, president of hotel workers union Unite Here....
...The growing sense that the US presidency is slipping from the grasp of Donald Trump will be greeted with quiet relief in most of the government offices of western Europe. But not, perhaps, in London....
...“This economic cake is unlikely to sweeten Trump’s election chances,” Beacon Policy Advisors wrote in a note on Thursday....
...In July 2018, Bourla’s predecessor was forced to abandon price hikes after being publicly shamed on Twitter by former US president Donald Trump....
...(FT) Argentina sweetens debt offer Argentina has announced an improved offer to holders of $65bn of foreign debt, hoping to break a deadlock that has persisted since it defaulted in May....
...The fact that Wexner’s near six-decade reign over the retail empire may be coming to an end could sweeten the deal for those who fear taking a reputational hit by acquiring Victoria’s Secret....
...More than anybody would believe”, US President Donald Trump said after those talks began. Some agricultural products, such as corn-based ethanol, have not been shipped to China for months....
...In an insightful recent paper, Marcus Noland of the Peterson Institute found that support for Donald Trump at a county level was not correlated with job losses from globalisation....
...In at least one negotiation, he mentioned his friendship with Jared Kushner, Donald Trump’s son-in-law....
...The tit-for-tat tariffs imposed by both sides over the past year have hit farmers in Iowa, which helped elect Donald Trump in 2016, and other agricultural states in the Midwest....
...The announcement followed US president Donald Trump’s decision this week to roll back plans to restrict Chinese investment in the country....
...It was a speech straight out of the Donald Trump playbook: angry, lacerating but wildly to the point....
...But if they don’t sweeten their offer, Europe’s competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager will probably block the deal....
...He couldn't hold back from disclosing titbits of information gathered from around the business and political world, riffing on his meeting with Donald Trump, his thoughts on SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son, and...
...Most Wall Street bosses believe New York will be the big winner from Brexit, especially because US President Donald Trump has promised to cut taxes and regulation....
...Donald Trump struck an uncharacteristically measured tone in an address to Congress that resurrected the “America First” themes of his inauguration but cloaked them in more conciliatory language....
...The country and its people are suffering under stringent international sanctions, which look likely to escalate under Donald Trump’s administration in the US....
...Macri has pursued to sweeten the bitter pill of his reforms....
...“This is why it is a test of Donald Trump’s political power and capital,” said Mr Naftali....
...Some of the biggest risks stem from the gradualist agenda that Mr Macri has pursued to sweeten the bitter pill of his reforms....
...But it may get up the noses of Unilever’s most loyal backers, who fret that repurchases are an unimaginative use of company funds that mainly sweeten executives’ pay packages....
...Some believe Xi Jinping, China’s president, has decided to rein in North Korea, to curry favour with US president Donald Trump and lower tensions in the nuclear-armed neighbourhood....
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