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...Other investment outfits inside Brookfield’s credit group include European credit manager LCM Partners, a stake in music royalty group Primary Wave, and a technology-focused lender called Pinegrove, in which...
...A YouTube user called PluggingAI offers songs imitating the voices of the deceased rappers Tupac and Notorious B.I.G....
...A discount on the bonds lifted the yield on the single-B rated notes to 11 per cent, according to people briefed on the matter....
...The show’s theme song is by Metaphor Music. Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com...
...Companies with double B or B plus debt ratings have received solid demand, while lower-rated single B and triple C rated companies have been forced to go to private credit lenders for financing....
...Other familiar and very heavily shorted names include Tencent Music, Beyond Meat, iRobot and B Riley Financial. Paris-listed Atos, with 26 per cent short interest, is most shorted outside the US....
...The bank’s analysis showed bidding for the B shares had picked up particularly with retail investors in recent days, with a growing imbalance between buy and sell orders....
...Independent analyst Eric Seufert said that Apple was “feeling around for what they will be allowed to do under the DMA”....
...As a duo of one black man and one Latin man playing a form of classic American music, it’s tempting to see Black Pumas as representing something....
...Its services arm, which includes income from the App Store, video streaming arm and Apple Music, has steadily increased as a proportion of the company’s total revenues, which is still dominated by sales...
...Yet Long Island’s black belt produced a significant number of 1980s rap acts alongside Public Enemy, such as De La Soul and Eric B and Rakim....
...Alongside an electronics-focused line-up featuring Aphex Twin, Eric Prydz, Peggy Gou and Honey Dijon is a festival of cinema created using machine learning and talks from research groups including Forensic...
...S&P has rated the bonds single-B minus, among the riskiest ratings it assigns....
...And the music stops — as it would....
...Its iconic Stratocaster has been a favourite of rock guitarists ranging from the late Jimi Hendrix and Jeff Beck to Eric Clapton and Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour....
...When banks were racing to lend to companies and private equity firms at the start of the year, a US business with a lowly single B debt rating could expect an interest rate of roughly 4.74 per cent....
...The funds have primarily purchased Berkshire’s class B stock, which carries fractional economic and voting rights compared with A shares....
...“We’re worried about deteriorating macro conditions, and that’s traditionally not the time when investors deploy a lot of capital into the single-B [corporate debt rating] risk.”...
...Out of desperation, they turned to young talent inspired by European cinema and weird B-movies — including Robert Evans, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola and the rest of the American New Wave....
...We did not like the excess stock-based compensation model, which we believed put too much power in the hands of Eric Yuan and other founders. We declined to participate in the IPO....
...The setlist spanned big-hitting ballads and R&B: from the tender cover of Bob Dylan’s “Make You Feel My Love” on her debut album 19 and her extravagant Bond theme, “Skyfall”, to the divorce confessionals...
...Fitch downgraded Russia from triple B to single B, deep junk territory, underscoring the high risks of investing in the country’s debt....
...It would never be obviously child porn, you know, inc come here and buy your images. So it was quite deceptive, I would say....
...He reels off a list of back-in-the-day acts, from Eric B & Rakim to Queen Latifah, some of whom specialised in rapping about street life, others who looked beyond it....
...The Angel You Don’t Know’s blend of US R&B and Afropop was warmly received, including end-of-year picks by the New York Times and the New Yorker....
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