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...Its English Premier League strength compliments CAA’s dominance in North American sports....
...Jamere Jackson, previously the chief financial officer of Nielsen Holdings, will join as his replacement, effective September 10....
...Americans may be paying too much for their lite beer....
...He said his approach is influenced by Robert Jackson, the former Supreme Court justice who was appointed by Franklin Roosevelt and argued against federal price controls on commodities such as steel and wheat...
...If US trustbusters ever get around to taking on Google, it may have as much to do with the mood in Jefferson City, Missouri, and Jackson, Mississippi, as the recent shift in the political winds in Washington...
...Miner Anglo American is seeking to buy back up to $1.3bn of its bonds from investors — about half of the short-term debt reduction target that it announced in its turnround plan this week....
...Yankee comes from US-scientific supplies company, Thermo Fisher, which is set to offer investors the chance to buy €500m of its bonds with a maturity of seven years, and reopens the European market for American...
...John Howland-Jackson has joined Nikko Asset Management as vice-chairman of the European arm of the $168bn Japanese fund group....
...The advisory group also recommended that shareholders vote against the re-election of James Bell, Crandall Bowles, David Cote, James Crown, Ellen Futter and Laban Jackson, citing a variety of deficiencies...
...Few have been hit as hard as Gary – once a thriving hub of steel production, and birthplace of the late Michael Jackson, one of the most successful pop stars in history....
...Jess Jackson, founder of California’s Kendall-Jackson Winery, can take credit for turning many of his fellow Americans away from beer and spirits and introducing them to wine, notably his easy-to-drink chardonnay...
...Didn’t Bernanke and the Fed announce in late August at Jackson Hole (and multiple times since then) that the US was going to enter QE2 and debase its currency setting off a currency war....
...Let’s see, he says, whether Ben Bernanke gives any nod towards speculation about a downward revision to US consensus growth forecasts in his big speech at the Fed’s Jackson Hole on Friday....
...“Many people point to the week in January 1992 when Nirvana knocked Michael Jackson – the King of Pop – off the top of the American charts as the moment alternative music truly went mainstream,” says Yarm...
...This triggered the resignation of David Jackson, Istithmar’s chief executive, this year....
...● Towers Watson has hired David Holding from BNY Mellon Asset Management and Gregory Jackson from Marsh & McLennan as investment consultants....
...What does it mean to say a company is British, American or Swiss?...
...The consortium also includes the LeFrak Organization, the privately held real estate company; Assured Guaranty, an insurer that sells credit guarantee products; and American Home Servicing Mortgages, the...
...Tony Jackson: A long way to go even if it’s the end of the beginning At a symposium four months ago in the City of London on the topic of falling dominoes. the view was that the damage to banks was over...
...Lazard’s bankers advised Lloyds TSB on the purchase of HBOS, Lehman Brothers on the sale of its North American business to Barclays, and, several months and a lifetime ago, Bear Stearns on its merger with...
...In the past year, Apple and Sony/ATV have licensed Beatles compositions for use in American Idol, a Las Vegas show and a Hollywood film....
...Americans don’t like the sport much....
...Most recently, he sold a Jackson Pollock painting for $140m, which would make it the most expensive artwork ever known to be sold....
...Why are Americans so fixated on naming their man-cubs after early presidents, however obscure (Jefferson, Jackson, Harrison, Taylor and Tyler) yet ignore Washington, Lincoln and indeed Monroe, while reserving...
...“Self-evidently, there are a number of British and American neo-conservatives involved in this project,” he said....
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