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...In a hearing last Wednesday, Yellow’s lawyer from Kirkland & Ellis, Patrick Nash, said the trucking group had fought against the inclusion of the $500mn loan roll-up provision....
...Here is Shelley Simpson, president of the trucking company JB Hunt, commenting on a 7 per cent year over year decline in revenue in the first quarter: We’re in a challenging freight environment where there...
...Of course, this is dragged up by outliers in the portfolio such as autonomous trucking play TuSimple (trading at 247 times). Still it’s eye-wateringly pricey....
...Axios’ Sara Fischer dug up a great scoop from the sheet FTAV shared: purportedly independent media company The Block has “been secretly funded for more than a year with money funnelled to The Block’s CEO...
...The trucking arm of the Mercedes-Benz owner sells half a million units a year, earning $40bn in revenue in 2019....
...Uber worked out a settlement with Waymo, the terms included that Uber “would never hire or work with Mr Levandowski again, which resulted in Uber also reneging on its promises to support Mr Levandowski’s trucking...
...Reinsurance for US trucking fleet liability risk has in some cases tripled in cost....
...Aurora is also heading in that direction, announcing on Monday that its “first commercial product will be in trucking”....
...The US Treasury department on Wednesday agreed a $700m bailout of trucking company YRC Worldwide....
...Shortly after he left the company in 2016, he co-founded Otto, an autonomous trucking company later acquired by Uber for a reported $680m....
...Mr Levandowski was one of the founders of Google's Waymo, but left to co-found Otto, an autonomous trucking company that was later acquired by Uber. Months afterwards....
...But Seth Fischer, chief investment officer at Oasis, and architect of the Tokyo Dome campaign, disagrees and sees opportunities not available elsewhere....
...Mr Levandowski left Waymo in January 2016 to co-found Otto, an autonomous trucking company later acquired by Uber....
...AI and Torc Robotics, which want to aid long-haul trucking groups....
...Could it be that Schumacher was wrong, and that we need industrial-scale farming and long-distance trucking to feed everyone?...
...Letter in response to this article: Fischer looked such a nice kid as he laid his traps / From William Hamilton, Phoenix, AZ, US...
...Stanley Fischer, the Fed’s vice-chair, told the FT this month that he did not understand why equity prices had continued to surge, and that this made him uncomfortable — especially when the hopes of Republican...
...Mr Fischer also said the Fed would welcome greater fiscal support for the economy amid signs that Mr Trump and the Republican-dominated Congress are preparing for tax cuts and larger budget deficits....
...The US currency had been buoyed by comments on Sunday from Stanley Fischer, the vice-chairman of the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors, whose upbeat assessment of the US economy gave some hope the central...
...from Stanley Fischer, the Federal Reserve vice-chair, that a September rate rise could still be on the cards and that the central bank could possibly lift interest rates twice this year (i.e. also December...
...The dollar had been buoyed for most of yesterday’s session by comments from Stanley Fischer, the vice-chairman of the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors, whose upbeat assessment on Sunday of the US economy...
...On Sunday, Stanley Fischer, the vice-chairman of the Fed’s Board of Governors, said core inflation was within “hailing distance” of the bank’s 2 per cent price target, a comment regarded as hawkish for interest...
...Mr Fischer has led the charge recently in talking up the prospects of a September rate rise....
...Stanley Fischer, the Fed vice chair, who had made some hawkish comments a week ago, helped boost bets on a near-term rate rise when he said the next set of US jobs data – due this Friday – was key in determining...
...Or she could match the more hawkish tone from Stanley Fischer, the Fed’s vice chair, which would send rate expectations higher....
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