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...As we’ve covered previously, the US’s auto insurance rates have soared 24 per cent over the past two years (v BLS data)....
...Virtual goods such as Fortnite weapons and subscription services such as Microsoft’s Game Pass have become as important to the console industry as its traditional money spinner of high-priced standalone...
...We think in the years to come we’ll have a good space for growth.”...
...RISC-V processors already appear in simpler devices such as smartwatches....
...They don’t have the resources, esprit de corps or a history to look back on.”...
...Arm’s chip designs have become world leading for good reason....
...When Vicki Hollub flew Occidental Petroleum’s Gulfstream V jet to Omaha for a meeting with billionaire investor Warren Buffett in April 2019, she needed cash to place a bet....
...At a dinner soon after, Jones impishly starts provoking Don by humming Wynette’s recent hit song “D-I-V-O-R-C-E”....
...Arrival is merging with Kensington Capital Acquisition Corp V, paying a huge premium in order to add $300mn to its balance sheet. It is a desperate move that is unlikely to trigger a Spac revival....
...“Here, the focus has mainly been on FMCG [fast moving consumer goods] products,” says Victoria Waugh, co-founder of V&V Sustainability Consultancy....
...This week, the base, which is the headquarters of the US Army’s V Corps, was renamed Camp Kościuszko after the Polish revolutionary who crossed the Atlantic to fight the British (gee, thanks Thaddeus)....
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...It says it had helped fund the development of the Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine....
...“It is clearly tough, because we have to make sure our members have enough exposure to growth assets that we can build a good pot for them over years, but we don’t want to give them excessive volatility,...
...It also hit out at the hedge fund’s “decidedly mixed results” in the utility sector, where it has previously taken stakes in Sempra Energy, FirstEnergy and Evergy....
...The company is now among two dozen investor-owned US electric utilities to have pledged net-zero emissions by 2050, with Ohio-based FirstEnergy on Monday adding itself to the list with a plan to become carbon...
...Klein’s Churchill Capital Corp IV, which is merging with Tesla-wannabe Lucid, had the largest short interest of any Spac, at $373m....
...“Going forward, our basic approach is to couple good investments with divestments from businesses that are no longer competitive.”...
...For example, in a 2010 opinion (Chevron Corp v Steven Donziger, et al) handed down from the US district court in Manhattan, the judge wrote that the “evidence at trial established that Donziger, a New York...
...If bank investors wanted some good news amid the uncertainty, they got it when the questions turned to dividend cuts. No way, came the answer....
...Before last week, consensus forecasts showed that activity in the advanced economies would be affected meaningfully in the first half of 2020, but that most of the lost output would be regained in a V-shaped...
...Players are prepared to pay real money for these virtual goods — sometimes just a few cents, sometimes much more....
...jonathan.guthrie@ft.com Letters in response to this column: Focus on the haystack — not on the needles / From Brendan P Geary, Washington, DC, US Active v passive: put more faith in market forces / From...
...(Forbes) Anna v Andrea It’s one of those boardroom battles that has captivated the global industry....
...“If a company, an airline for example, was in good shape in February then the government guarantees are [there] just to get it through the Covid-19 period.”...
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