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...The company spent billions of dollars acquiring truck-stop operator Pilot Flying J and insurance conglomerate Alleghany in recent years, adding them to a portfolio that includes ice cream purveyor Dairy...
...Facebook’s parent company Meta spent the most among S&P 500 companies for a CEO’s personal air travel, reporting $2.3mn on private flights for Mark Zuckerberg....
...A separate RA paper soon to be published in the Financial Analysts Journal goes into more depth, but basically it seems to boil down to the RACWI indices excluding some high-flying but small companies and...
...s=20 Meanwhile, side-eyes and fingers are starting to point within the investor community. Hushed DMs are flying. “Let’s take this offline” is appearing in group WhatsApp chats....
...UK’s competition regulator to divest the company....
...The Company intends to file a number of motions with the Bankruptcy Court designed to facilitate the Company’s orderly evaluation of all strategic alternatives, including potentially a sale of the Company...
...J/24 pitted against about a dozen other club boats....
...But it also hosts concerts and events, and this October “A-Wing”, where Troubles inmates were housed, will open its doors as a working distillery reviving J&J McConnell’s Irish Whisky, founded in 1776....
...European airlines have enjoyed a surge in demand for flying as pandemic travel restrictions have loosened, and investors will watch closely for signs that companies could be on the cusp of returning to profitability...
...Company of Air Pilots....
...Fans want to believe her stories of a better, brighter future filled with flying cars, green energy and longer, healthier lives....
...Ark set out to have a portfolio that has little overlap with the Nasdaq and the S&P 500....
...There were companies, some flying taxi companies who were promising to make 10bn in the next five or six years in revenue....
...And a godsend as, without ecommerce, there was almost no revenue during the initial lockdown, he says. The company will debut its online shop early next year....
...The industry as a whole had a loss ratio of 73 per cent on an aggregate $1.6bn of direct written premiums, according to S&P data....
...Flying for business, and the cost, carbon and time it consumed, was virtually ended as we connected online instead....
...Motoring on: petrol and road repairs are M&A’s new hotspot In need of a break and wary of flying, DD has been hitting the road this summer....
...The Competition and Markets Authority has fined drugmakers £2.3m over an agreement under which two companies agreed not to compete, allowing a third group to hike the price of a drug supplied to the NHS...
...Ascena ($1.8bn) and clothing retailer J Crew ($1.4bn)....
...After flying high in the last decade, commodities markets have had a poor run. The S&P GSCI total return index, formerly the Goldman Sachs Commodity Index, has declined 40 per cent since 2010....
...But the 82-year-old is also the longest-serving chief executive of an S&P 500 company, having run Victoria’s Secret’s parent company L Brands since 1963. This can lead to some strange views....
...His annual January letter to the chief executives of the S&P 500 is a must-read, and last year he called on them to take a more active role in addressing societal issues, from retirement to infrastructure...
...He is proud that Hilton, which has made it to a centenary, is a “rare phenomenon” among S&P 500 companies....
...Ocado will look to justify ditching Waitrose as a supplier for M&S, and prove that its technology works outside the UK market....
...Tui, with a tenth of its fleet in Maxes, is the FTSE 100’s biggest faller at pixel....
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