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...Instead, it simply acts as a broker for State National Insurance Corporation, a subsidiary of insurance giant Markel....
...PG&E Corporation filed its Chapter 11 plan in early September having found itself with a $30bn liability after accidentally setting a lot of California on fire....
...Also, it’s hard to imagine profits arising from paying corporation tax. But subsidising real estate is a different story. Take the case of Help to Buy in the UK....
...Newly hired plant manager Chris Taylor said he was initially concerned about working for a Chinese company....
...Among its sector peers, MDC Holdings gained 4.7 per cent, NVR added 4.5 per cent and Taylor Morrison was up 4.2 per cent. Lennar Corporation gained 3.8 per cent and PulteGroup was up 3.6 per cent....
...A significant impetus for producing cheaper, smaller satellites came in 1999 when two professors, Jordi Puig-Suari of California Polytechnic State University and Bob Twiggs of Stanford University, challenged...
...He also adds that takeover rules in the US are generally the same whether you are acquiring a Delaware corporation or a California corporation....
...UFJ, Mizuho Bank and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation....
...“When you think about a large corporation, they’d think big a lot then they’d start big, [but] act slow. Uptake has helped us to think big, and act fast and small....
...A new tower in London under construction on London’s Silicon Roundabout takes healthy architecture in another direction....
...as a construction manager for a solar-power company....
...Based on manufacturing, construction, and exports, it delivered hundreds of millions out of poverty but left China with a bitter legacy of overcapacity, overbuilding, and pollution....
...Minxin Pei, professor of government at Claremont McKenna College in California, raises a series of concerns....
...But drones are already being used in agriculture, construction and mapping....
...It was co-founder Steve Jobs who commissioned Lord Foster to design the company’s HQ at Cupertino, California, a glass doughnut that evokes the space station in 2001: A Space Odyssey....
...“Record affordability and a shrinking supply of existing homes are really driving demand for new construction,” said Andrew Reading, analyst at Bloomberg Industries....
...Taylor Morrison builds houses in the US and Canada, including states hard hit by the housing bust such as Arizona, Florida and California....
...Taylor Morrison is planning the biggest IPO by a US homebuilder in two years. The company is aiming to raise $500m from selling stock priced at $20-$22 a share....
...California-based Tri Pointe Homes raised $233m from an initial public offering in January to become the first homebuilder to go public in nearly a decade....
...The move comes a month after Arizona-based Taylor Morrison, another homebuilder, filed plans to raise $250m from an initial public offering....
...Many of the boarded-up properties – including units still bearing the names of The Gap, J Crew, Ann Taylor and other clothing chains – belong to the Howard Hughes Corporation, a listed property developer...
...Like SAP’s pending $3.4bn acquisition of San Mateo, California-based Success Factors which was announced in December, Oracle’s proposed acquisition reflects the increasing demand from customers for more...
...My drone could be used to look inside a neighbour’s third-floor window, or at a private party or an exclusive construction site – though, of course, I would never ever be tempted to use it for such a thing...
...Gary Taylor, of Citigroup, said Medicare-exposed companies could suffer revenue squeezes as healthcare spending becomes a target of government spending cuts....
...First Solar gained 10.5 per cent to $44.56 after analysts at Jefferies said construction had begun on the company’s long-delayed Topaz solar farm project in San Luis Obispo County, California....
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