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...On Thursday, President Joe Biden threw cold water on Nippon Steel’s pending $15bn acquisition for US Steel, once a national icon. He said US-steel should remain American....
...But Biden had a second message as he addressed the cameras, flanked by workers holding USW signs: that US Steel, the Pittsburgh-based American industrial icon, should remain “American-owned, American-operated...
...But, in a world conditioned to cherish moisture-wicking shirts, Fitbit rash and Strava kudos icons, it really should have been....
...US Steel is an American icon. JPMorgan financed its creation; Andrew Carnegie helped to found it....
...opposition to the takeover and marks the culmination of months of White House debate about how to respond to a deal that has sparked a bipartisan backlash in Washington against the sale of a US manufacturing icon...
...manager at the activist fund Elliott who was appointed to the Toshiba board as an independent director in 2022, said he hoped that the Toshiba saga would “prove to be a case study of a renewal of a Japanese icon...
...On Monday, the Pittsburgh icon US Steel announced it had reached a deal to sell itself to Japan’s Nippon Steel at a total enterprise value of $15bn....
...A droplet in the centre of the “o” is a secondary icon, seen on everything from company-branded plasters to the imperious tower at its headquarters. “We asked ourselves: ‘What’s the singular idea?’”...
...The writer is a former investment banker and author of ‘Power Failure: The Rise and Fall of an American Icon’ In the last 10 years, both retail and institutional investors have swarmed into US money-market...
...The writer is a former investment banker and author of ‘Power Failure: The Rise and Fall of an American Icon’ It’s always startling to discover a new generation of investors that is both willing and eager...
...Dear reader, Songstress and icon Taylor Swift once wrote rather dramatically on social media: “There will be no further explanation. There will just be reputation.” You’re telling me....
...They were cultural icons who embraced a more flamboyant and turbulent lifestyle. Today’s celebrities are different, they tread safer territory. The world has gone corporate.”...
...More frequent are swipes at Andrew for being a deluded narcissist — a gurning court jester who sees himself as a beloved royal icon....
...Unexpected but logical The announcement this week that state-backed Japan Investment Corp....
...The writer is a former investment banker and author of Power Failure: The Rise and Fall of an American Icon Both Bernard Arnault, newly crowned the world’s richest person, and Elon Musk, his predecessor...
...Sudmeier joined the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps but, despite reaching the rank of corporal, she settled for a role as shorthand stenographer in the CIA once the war was over....
...“He is a true icon,” Tshisekedi said of Lumumba. “Despite the many generations that came and went, and this is the third generation since Lumumba, he is still regarded as an icon.”...
...The MoonSwatch, which comes in 11 colours, is a playful pastiche of a clockwork icon that retails for £4,200 or more. Read more...
...picture either of the decline of a corporation that once commanded international awe, the interventionist instincts of the Japanese government or of what happens when a financial crisis thrusts a national icon...
...Carving up an icon For buyout firms, Toshiba is a tantalising opportunity in a market that has become fertile hunting ground as Japanese companies face growing calls to restructure and sharpen their focus...
...On Wednesday, the Japanese industrial icon acknowledged it had received an approach from private equity group CVC....
...A vulnerability of management thinking has been exposed, not just for this troubled industrial icon, but for much of corporate Japan and, according to some texters that day, for other equity markets in the...
...His experience in the wider world, in addition to his untouchability as a national icon, also offered a reassuring component to compensate for clear gaps in the new president’s knowledge of foreign policy...
...But given the company’s size, its well-known conservatism, and its status as a national industrial icon, the move could be an important step in a country that does not appear close to recognising same-sex...
...I can’t imagine the handful of style icons in the empty FT newsroom wearing a £900 one any time soon. But you get my point. Casting director, Shawn Dezan at Home Agency....
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