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...UK companies news will be peppered with trading updates, notably supermarket chains Marks and Spencer, J Sainsbury and Tesco, discount retailer B&M and Greggs, purveyor of hot pastry snacks such as the vegan...
...I’m focused on enjoying the life that I have, and I’m not really following it very much....
...“I’m trying to trace my memory, but I really can’t remember many things.”...
...Corporations, on the other hand, are able to retain more annual profits and are better able to attract capital, he added....
...I’m not completely confident that we’re up to the challenge....
...Jamie Smyth The talc claimants’ lawyers argued that, you know, J&J is in no way in financial trouble. It’s a corporation with a triple-A credit rating. It is worth almost half a trillion dollars....
...In most jurisdictions, corporation taxes are not levied on the portion of profits paid as interest to lenders....
...Now, I'm not suggesting that we should quit raising corn and soybeans. I'm not saying that at all. But it shouldn't be all we're doing....
...For Profit: A History of Corporationsby William Magnuson, Basic Books £10.99 The author, a professor at Texas A&M University School of Law, has put current debates on the role and behaviour of corporations...
...If I’m having a conversation and I see a picture that isn’t hung right, I can’t focus. I’m desperate to go over and fix it,” he concludes....
...Latham & Watkins has named Sarah Fortt and Betty Moy Huber as partners and global co-chairs of its ESG practice alongside Paul Davies....
...Paribas unit (Bloomberg) Banks compete for role in Uefa’s €7bn football rescue fund (FT) J&J spent $1.4bn on legal move to shield it from talc cancer claims (FT) HNA creditors rebel against Chinese conglomerate...
...Funds overseen by Ares Management Corporation took a minority stake in Atlético Madrid last June....
...Huber was previously CFO and executive vice-president of Moody’s Corporation....
...And in the end, I’m confident that we will achieve a historic victory for American freedom and at the same time, freedom of speech,” Trump said....
...Also, the rate of corporation tax is set to rise from 19 per cent to 25 per cent. Previously when this rate fell, the tax base widened....
...Max J Zenglein, chief economist at Mercator Institute for China Studies, a think-tank, agreed that a pick-up was unlikely in the coming months....
...“I’m not going to let Covid knock me out of business. I’m going to fight,” she said....
...“I'm not sure why the government is cheering this,” he said. Additional reporting by Tabby Kinder...
...While the chamber never engages in presidential politics, nor will we while I’m here, we will praise or criticise proposals by presidential candidates from both parties....
...Roula Khalaf FT EDITOR If you’re looking for beautiful writing and love history, I recommend Jill Lepore’s If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future....
...I’m by nature an optimist, but at the rate we’re going today I fear that this transition will be especially fraught.” — William J Burns, president, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington,...
...King & Wood Mallesons has hired Jake Robson as an M&A partner in its Singapore office. Robson was formerly at Morrison & Foerster....
...I’m deeply suspicious of somebody who says, ‘I’m in favour of privatisation,’ or ‘I’m deeply in favour of public ownership’. I’m in favour of whatever works in the particular case.”...
...Mr Nassetta, who knew Blackstone president Jon Gray from his days running the real estate investment group Bailey Capital Corporation, was brought in to unite the two....
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