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...Well, big companies want cheap corn. So they lobby the government, which provides subsidies to farmers, in part via preferential crop insurance....
...If you fancied a weekend away, you could go glamping on the company farm. If this were Amazon or WeWork, it would be creepy....
...pay the same tax as small local companies....
...Automobiles It is another busy week for car companies with a full schedule line-up from Monday to Friday....
...Idexx said in October that the animal health market had experienced a “V-shaped recovery”....
...Calquence is one of AstraZeneca’s big pipeline hopes, going head to head with J&J’s $6bn market leader Imbruvica....
...That’s bad for J Sainsbury, whose bank has been a white elephant for some time....
...The policy response creates an asymmetry in favour of credit vs. equity holders for the companies that receive state aid, as they could be left with more debt, weaker cash flows and lower payouts over the...
...The Trump administration’s granting of state funding for (costly) COVID-19 testing for patients with no health insurance and Congress’s approval of a $8bn package to fight the spread of the virus bear out...
...The ONS estimates the value of land and assets-over-land to be over £5tn compared to a GDP of c£2tn....
...It sells insurance, legal services and electricals. Annual turnover is about £9.5bn. The group once owned a retail bank, now controlled by bondholders, a pharmacy chain, and several farms....
...According to ESP, which compiles sponsorship data, big US insurance brands such as Geico, Allstate and State Farm devote more than half of their annual sponsorship budgets to sports....
...They included Aerobotics, which is applying AI to aerial photos of farms to help provide crop insurance, and Emerge, which uses machine learning to help insurers improve efficiency. ——————— Four areas...
...insurance firms under supervision by the Fed due to their banking activities – the likes of State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance and Nationwide Mutual Insurance – would be subject to lighter capital requirements...
...The Rise and Fall of American Growth by Robert J....
...From Coppola: Indeed the whole idea of the “sharing economy” seems to be based not on the idea of working together to produce something for mutual benefit (the cooperative principle) but on millions of...
...But it’s a useful insurance policy if the economy were to take a sudden cyclical lurch downwards....
...On Wednesday, J Sainsbury warned that there had been a dramatic change in grocery shopping habits, despite the improving outlook....
...And so after decades at the firm that has made him a billionaire – his company has owned brands such as Burger King, J Crew, Neiman Marcus and Univision – Mr Bonderman and TPG are facing questions from analysts...
...In the years that followed, automobile factories converted to making planes and tanks. Corset factories made grenade belts. A toy company made compasses....
...But Henry Waxman, Democratic chairman of the House energy committee, has homed in on a report that the largest US insurance group, State Farm, had alerted federal safety regulators on “numerous occasions...
...Sheila Bair, chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp, has put only a handful of banks up for auction....
...IndyMac could cost the FDIC’s deposit insurance fund between $8.5bn and $9.4bn....
...Insurance companies, mutual funds and pension funds alone are estimated to have $80bn of exposure and the banking sector’s exposure is in excess of $200bn....
...How the Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In By Jim Collins Random House Business Books, £15.99 The author who told us how companies can go “from good to great” now explains how they can sink...
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