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Industry says US regulator has not considered impact of its new measures on securities markets
...Hang up | Labour party members have complained about a heavy-handed leak investigation conducted by Starmer’s chief of staff Sue Gray....
...Enter Sue Gray. the former Whitehall fixer, brought in last year by Sir Keir Starmer as chief of staff, who was tasked with bringing Labour mayors into the tent....
...reached a similar agreement with a Spac backed by former New York Yankees star Alex Rodriguez, but the possibility of it merging with Universal vanished after the baseball player broke up with music star Jennifer...
...PS Our colleague in Hong Kong, Jennifer Creery, is moving on to a new opportunity and will no longer be writing FirstFT. We wish her all the best!...
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...Jennifer Ezring has returned to Latham & Watkins as a partner in its banking practice, based in New York. She joins from Cahill....
Plus, Sri Lanka’s president flees and UBS appoints a new head of wealth management
...Just think about Sue getting 22.5 per cent of our shares. She might put us in play, she might interfere in our decisions or even try to sack Priya....
...Currently, cases are brought against companies in the states where they are based or incorporated, but if the Supreme Court rules against Norfolk Southern, plaintiffs could sue companies in any state where...
Plus, Boris Johnson faces confidence vote and big tech pulls out all the stops to halt antitrust bill
...Plus: Donald Trump sues CNN for $475mn over alleged Hitler comparisons. China’s property crash Contagion is spreading deep into China’s political economy....
...Former White House official Jennifer Harris said the clean energy transition would demand far more lithium and other commodities than the world is on track to produce....
...California sues Amazon California has sued Amazon over claims that it punishes third-party sellers who offer their products more cheaply on other websites, in the latest legal action against the $1.3tn tech...
...Twitter hires US law firm to sue Elon Musk The social media company has hired Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz as it readies for a legal battle with the world’s richest man....
...Sue Gove, an independent director who joined Bed Bath & Beyond in 2019 from Target, will replace Tritton....
...Boston Consulting Group sues GameStop over unpaid fees BCG, one of the world’s largest corporate advisers, has sued the video game retailer and meme-stock archetype GameStop over what it called $30mn in...
...Photographer Jennifer Hadley said: “I really love this photo contest because . . . it really shows off the personalities of the animals....
Plus, report into ‘meme stock’ craze and tributes pour in for Colin Powell
...JPMorgan sues Tesla over ‘funding secured’ tweet The US bank has sued Tesla for $162m, alleging that the automaker failed to make a required payment that was triggered after chief executive Elon Musk’s 2018...
...Chinese creditors sue Evergrande for claims totalling $13bn Chinese creditors have sued China Evergrande for more than $13bn in allegedly overdue payments, as domestic companies owed money by the embattled...
...US regulator sues to stop Nvidia’s acquisition of Arm The Federal Trade Commission has sued to block Nvidia’s cash-and-stock acquisition of UK chip design company Arm from SoftBank....
Shale oil producers lose billions to hedging, Gates Foundation’s future and Haiti’s president assassinated
...Scarlett Johansson sues Disney The US actress has sued Disney, accusing the Marvel owner of breaching her contract by releasing the Black Widow film in cinemas and on its streaming service on the same day...
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