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...Mercury LLC, a company operating in the Syrian oil sector and sanctioned by the EU in 2021, generated sales of $67mn in the three years before the designation but declared zero revenues afterwards....
...We’re seeing a lot of CEOs learn the lessons of groups like Disney who’ve been wrongfooted by their own employee resource groups, who felt that the leadership wasn’t doing enough for them....
...Prigozhin’s reward has been a series of natural resources concessions....
...In 2000, he co-founded YouGov, the polling group, which would earn his family millions....
...Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson Well, one of the hot topics in the US right now is the Supreme Court’s recent decision to overturn Roe v Wade, the abortion ruling that had held for about 50 years....
...The capital provided by Albert Avdolyan to Gemcorp’s first fund in 2014, which the investment group has not publicised, illustrates the complex and overlapping interests of Russian businessmen who invest...
...The Arctic states have to perform a delicate balancing act: they want to secure sea routes and resources but avoid spiralling escalation in the region....
...This exhibition at the V&A invites us into the opulent world of master goldsmith Carl Fabergé and his London clientele....
...The 2008 financial crisis had left the balance sheets of western financial groups poisoned by sub-prime assets, forcing them to ring fence these toxic assets in “bad banks”....
...This would mean the iShares ETFs would need to pump more than $400m into each of Vestas Wind Systems, Orsted and NextEra Energy, as well as large sums into Chinese groups such as China Longyuan Power, Xinjiang...
...The V-Dem Institute at the University of Gothenburg, which tracks data on the health of democracies, recently reclassified the country as an “electoral autocracy”....
...The US consortium’s approach to the government comes as prime minister Boris Johnson prepares to give a speech setting out a “10 point plan” of how the country proposes to meet the 2050 goal....
...Future groups might co-ordinate resources for research on advanced biotechnology and quantum computing. Coordinating among allies is the most effective way to counterbalance China....
...That is, unless Boris Johnson or a successor decides to rip up the protocol in part or entirely, forcing Ireland to erect a land border....
...Johnson & Johnson, the drug and consumer products group, managed to raise its dividend but cut its guidance for the year....
...DD’s Arash Massoudi and Eric Platt and the FT’s Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson exclusively reported that some 4,000 employees of the company are expected to lose their jobs....
...And for all the more positive headlines this year, there has been no let-up in allegations of antisocial corporate behaviour: even as Alex Gorsky, Johnson & Johnson’s chief, was writing the Business Roundtable...
...Boris Johnson’s allies admitted on Tuesday that any hopes the UK will strike a deal with Brussels at the meeting were effectively dead. Asian markets rallied overnight....
...Shares in the group are near a five-year low....
...AllianceBernstein appears to be the first large finance group to take this remarkable step. But it is unlikely to be the last....
...Having kicked away one pillar, you would expect Boris Johnson to strengthen the second....
...A Telegram Markets Live chat group is also available....
...Lamborghinis v annuities Fears that the 2015 ‘pension freedom’ reforms in would cause savers to blow their cash on Lamborghinis, not annuities, appear to have been misplaced....
...Rob Nestor, head of iShares smart beta at BlackRock, says the manager decided this area was a “critical focus” about two and a half years ago, and started pouring in resources....
...“The difficulty with cutting fees is that it reduces the resources available for marketing, sales support and client education initiatives.” says Deborah Fuhr, co-founder of ETFGI....
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