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...The British empire weighs heavily on the collection here. Aside from being compared with a whale during the course of its expansion, the empire literally ran on whale bodies....
...Without fresh funds, insolvency became inevitable....
...Shareholders’ increased vigilance over executive pay comes as they cut back support for resolutions on environmental and social matters in the face of criticism from politicians, even as those proposals...
...more rapid and steep cuts....
...On Wednesday we’ll see fresh consumer price inflation data, which could make the hot January and February reports seem like the anomalies many experts insist that they are....
...Now, the French tycoon’s tight grip over the debt-crippled grocery empire has backfired, the FT reports....
...Deloitte is set to cut hundreds of jobs in the UK as clients cut spending on advisory services in a tougher economic environment....
...Relevent’s cut was undisclosed....
...Additionally, we learned that Centerview senior bankers typically keep 30 to 40 per cent of the fees they generate in pay and separately get “points” that entitle them to a fixed cut of the firm’s profits...
...The wall of the adjacent building has been cut away completely to reveal an extremely well-appointed restaurant dining room....
...US institutional investors are selling more of their private equity holdings at a discount as they cut exposure to the illiquid asset class, reports Sun Yu in New York....
...One scoop to start: EG Group is in talks to offload some UK assets to billionaire co-founder Zuber Issa in what the company told investors was an attempt to reduce the debt pile of its petrol-station empire...
...The online learning group, which says it has 150mn students, made fresh staff cuts in recent days, two people close to the company said....
...Smart reads Rothschild reunion The Swiss and French branches of the famous financier family are increasingly likely to have to merge in the future to preserve their empire, Bloomberg writes....
...a cut....
...Even if the company hunkered down, made lay-offs and sharply cut back spending, it appeared to be on track for a substantial loss....
...The energy tycoon first built his empire by snapping up unloved, often carbon-intensive energy businesses on the cheap, often using external financing....
...Should the deal go ahead, United has also discussed raising fresh funds to plough into the club, according to two people familiar with the matter....
...reorganisation of the business empire....
...interest rates extensively next year, ushering in a fresh injection of cheaper money available for speculation....
...Already, the indictment has triggered fresh legal action from the Zeromax creditors’ camp....
...In the best rooms, ingredients to make a gin and tonic are set out neatly on a board, complete with fresh lime and garnish....
...For his lack of decades spent in the dealmaking trenches, some at Lazard say the “scholar-banker”, as one employee called him, makes up for it with a fresh perspective....
...More than three decades later, the softly spoken, publicity-shy financier presides over an empire spanning banking, commercial property, food manufacturing and media in the US, Latin America and the UK....
...Oil prices have been steadily climbing in the past few months due in part to co-ordinated production cuts by Saudi Arabia and Russia, and — after slipping last week — jumped more recently since Hamas’s attack...
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