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...The Pinault family’s holding company Artémis, whose other holdings include a controlling stake in luxury group Kering and auction house Christie’s, plans to use $2.8bn in equity and $425mn in debt to buy...
...The result was a 40 per cent drop in the primetime audience compared with the Rio de Janeiro Olympics in 2016....
...Some government officials want Rio to pay more than $300m of withholding taxes on income it has received from Oyu Tolgoi LLC, the Mongolian holding company that owns the mine....
...Jupiter, Boohoo’s largest independent shareholder with a holding of just under 10 per cent, according to CapitalIQ, is also backing the re-election of Kane....
...Jakob Stausholm, Rio Tinto’s new chief executive, has made sweeping changes to the miner’s senior leadership team. More here. Rothschild & Co has appointed Richard Luddington as a senior adviser....
...David Constable will step down as a non-executive director of Rio Tinto at the end of this year to pursue his new role as chief executive of Fluor Corporation....
...At the same time, regulatory changes have forced banks’ trading desks to scale back their holdings, hampering their ability to cushion any turmoil....
...Most are at least partially state-owned, but others, including the Hungarian subsidiary of Robert Bosch LLC, are not....
...The major miners are BHP, Rio Tinto, Glencore, Anglo American, and Vale....
...PotashCorp of Saskatchewan is selling the holding, worth almost $5bn at current prices, to get regulatory approval for a merger with a rival....
...Mining group Rio Tinto rose 1.5 per cent on its appointment of Simon Thompson, one of its non-executive directors, as new chairman....
...Miner BHP Billiton was up 3 per cent while rival Rio Tinto gained 2.2 per cent....
...The ASX 300 Metals and Mining index was down 2 per cent by the end of the morning session on Wednesday, with Fortescue Metals Group dropping down 2.7 per cent and fellow mining giants Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton...
...BHP Billiton gained 2.5 per cent and rival miner Rio Tinto rose 2.2 per cent....
...To be the most important airline from the Rio Grande to the penguins of Patagonia. And we’ll get there.”...
...Taylor says wealthy Mexican expats who would typically pay $2m to $5m for a home in San Diego are liquidating their US real estate holdings and heading back south....
...Yet Santander’s operation is holding up well....
...BHP Billiton was down 5.2 per cent in afternoon trading in Sydney, while stablemate Rio Tinto was down 4.4 per cent, and LNG producer Woodside Petroleum fell 3.2 per cent....
...Jan du Plessis, chairman of Rio Tinto, phones Ivan Glasenberg, CEO of commodities group Glencore* JdP: Ivan? Jan here. I called to commiserate....
...US stocks ended the week on a firm note as participants digested a mixed bag of corporate earnings and continued to focus on the prospect of the Federal Reserve holding back from raising interest rates until...
...As we walked among giant ferns and dew-heavy lichens, I was aware of a river I could hear but not see — the Rio el Salto, fed by snowmelt, glaciers and springs — which drowned out the boys’ voices....
...Its £5.4m new wing extends the 1930s steel mill it has occupied since 2009 in Ciudad del Río, a regenerating riverside district....
...MOHAMED EL-ERIAN Member, Allianz International Executive Board Chief Economic Advisor to its Management Board; Chairman, President Obama’s Global Development Council Mohamed El-Erian has served as President...
...Nikkei leads regional rebound as Bank of Japan holds policy steady, despite the absence of a strong US lead or any encouraging developments in Ukraine * Global miners dismiss iron ore slump | BHP and Rio...
...Qatar Holding declined to comment....
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