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...News this week that Berkshire Hathaway would increase investments in Japanese stocks has managed to lift the entire market....
...Li feared the worst, but the ticket collector merely waved him through, signalling his support for the protesters by making a V sign with his hand and smiling....
...Write to the FintechFT team at imani.moise@ft.com and sid.v@ft.com....
...Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine has an efficacy rate of 97.6 per cent, its developers said, based on data from almost 4m people....
...(FT) Apollo-Athene: the new Berkshire Hathaway?...
...Hungary is the only EU member to have approved both the Chinese-made Sinopharm and Russian-made Sputnik V vaccines....
...The African Union will pay three times more for Russia’s Sputnik V jab than it is paying for the Oxford/AstraZeneca and Novavax vaccines, undermining Moscow’s claim that it is supplying poor countries with...
...Separately, Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway spent $800m this week increasing its stake in Bank of America....
...On the last Sunday of April 2019, a sleek Gulfstream V jet belonging to Occidental Petroleum touched down at Omaha airport....
...(FT) EU v Silicon Valley New data-sharing principles laid out by the EU this week seek to crack open the data silos that have helped to reinforce the power of the dominant tech companies....
...The days ahead Tuning in to the Sage Warren Buffett’s investment vehicle Berkshire Hathaway will release its annual report and the Oracle of Omaha’s annual letter to shareholders on Saturday....
...On Saturday the Oracle of Omaha released his annual Berkshire Hathaway shareholder letter — one of the rituals of late winter, to be followed by the Buffettpalooza shareholder weekend in Omaha in May....
...It’s not a crazy idea, especially if you are teaming up with JPMorgan and Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway (Bloomberg; FT) News round-up Saudi Aramco indecision shrouds world’s biggest IPO in uncertainty...
...(FT) Samsung v Elliott: Lex argues that the South Korean smartphone maker’s resistance to splitting itself apart is a good call....
...Besides Mr Buffett and his Berkshire Hathaway group, Mr Ashford’s big backers this year include multinationals such as Deere & Co and Honeywell as well as the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association and other...
...V&A’s robot-made web London’s Victoria and Albert Museum, has launched a season of exhibitions and events focused on the “unsung role” of engineering in society....
...- Berkshire Hathaway’s Charlie Munger on mental models. - Of solar bond-age. - A GQ profile of Colbert....
...This facilitated Berkshire Hathaway and 3G Capital Management’s acquisition of HJ Heinz....
...Ignoring Granny, Mr Nelson will doubtless continue thundering against passive underwriting of the kind practised by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway via Aon. Mr Ward should be grateful....
...Mr Buffett invests via his ownership of insurance company Berkshire Hathaway. Top shareholdings: Coca-Cola; ConocoPhillips; DirecTV; GlaxoSmithKline; General Electric; IBM....
...The average annualised return for shareholders during the periods of Icahn board members was 28 per cent, double the average returns from Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway over the same periods, and more...
...Equal parts biography and monograph, this hefty tome explores de la Renta’s life supported by affirmations from some of the women he has dressed, from Anne Hathaway to Hillary Clinton....
...(WSJ) COMMENTS etc For Moscow, Ukraine is always ‘Little Russia’ (Reuters) Europe has to stop hiding beneath the bedcovers (Financial Times, Stephens) US v China: is this the new cold war?...
...There was Amanda Seyfried’s white lace Alexander McQueen dress (which reportedly caused her Les Misérables co-star Anne Hathaway to give up a lace Valentino in favour of the pink Prada she eventually wore...
...Based on recommendations from Mr Giegold, the politician responsible for steering the Ucits V directive through Parliament, European policy makers last week voted to reform – or rather hack into – the bonus...
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