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...The number of black employees at PwC US rose from 6 per cent to 7 per cent, but they accounted for 5 per cent or less of the promotions from associate and senior associate level in the past year....
...Inflation, meanwhile, is forecast to come in at an annual rate of 4.6 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2022, up almost a full percentage point from the bank’s previous estimate....
...Jim Simons’ Renaissance Technologies and Ray Dalio’s Bridgewater Associates are among the big industry names to have chalked up losses....
...Dan Wang, associate professor of business at Columbia Business School, says Google’s advantage comes from scale, as it fine-tunes results from endless user feedback....
...“The fact that it went seamlessly is really a testament to all of the people involved,” said Shane Swanson, senior analyst at consultancy Greenwich Associates....
...Mr Druley’s route to Cambridge Associates was idiosyncratic....
...The number of sales was down as much as 11 per cent, according to Stribling & Associates, a residential real estate broker. Another report on Tuesday from Corcoran had sales falling by 5 per cent....
...So, at the bidding of a longtime associate, Mr Barrack set off for Las Vegas to meet Michael Jackson. The king of pop was in a bad place....
...Mr Snyder was, perhaps understandably, upset that his approximate 10 per cent stake in Six Flags that he spent $40m on could create a liability a quarter of that figure to a bank....
...In the first quarter of the year, hedge funds received $16.9bn in new investments, their fifth straight quarter of positive net flows after five quarters of redemptions, according to Preqin....
...She’s currently the chief executive and vice-chair of Kissinger Associates, a consulting firm. She is also on the board of Morgan Stanley....
...Funds managed by software will grow to $385bn by 2021, according to Cerulli Associates, more than quadrupling from today’s levels....
...TA Associates sold down its stake, of just under 43 per cent, from 1997 to 1999....
...Thomas Toth, a managing director at Wilshire Associates, the consultancy, says the amount of excess capital is “very substantial” and has helped push up prices paid for deals....
...JPMorgan estimates that the debt-to-GDP ratio fell in the second quarter last year, the first outright decline since 2011....
...“A lot of inventory is still sitting there in the northern part of the city,” says Bobby Lieb, associate broker with HomeSmart, an estate agency....
...Even as many hedge funds have suffered client outflows in recent quarters, computerised ones have generally continued to attract money....
...Well, here’s a press release by loan servicer First Associates in April 2015 — that’s the 2nd quarter, in case it’s unclear — announcing it is providing primary servicing to Argon Credit....
...The US listings market largely disappeared in the first quarter with more deals being delayed than proceeding as global stock markets faced brutal selling....
...He joined Credit Suisse in index arbitrage in 1996, after starting his career at O’Connor & Associates as an options trader....
...Mr Dearborn is a long-time associate of Mr Ferro, who was chairman of Merge until the IBM sale....
...After a decent first half and a solid third quarter, the industry reported a small loss of $177m in the fourth quarter, the first quarterly loss since 2011....
...Jeffrey Levi, a partner at Casey Quirk & Associates, an investment management consultancy, added: “There is big pressure on governments because of the oil price drop and they are looking to sovereign funds...
...The turbulence continued into September, making the third quarter the worst for stocks since 2011....
...“The trend in job growth is still solid,” said Diane Swonk of Diane Swonk & Associates LLC, citing strength in food and hospitality hiring as evidence of firm spending by middle income households....
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