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...Good bit: Stock prices rise nearly half the time when a CEO dies unexpectedly, according to a study of 240 U.S. public companies from 1950 to 2009 by the University of Notre Dame and the University of Georgia...
...This year Rolex is supporting Under The Pole’s Deeplife exploration programme, which studies marine animal forests in the Canary Islands. rolex.com; underthepole.org S is for SeikoThe Professional Association...
...Revenues have fallen at a quarter of US small businesses in each of the past three weeks while just 8 per cent saw revenue growth, according to an Economic Innovation Group study....
...Email us at imani.moise@ft.com and sid.v@ft.com....
...Earlier data increases our economists conviction in a V-shaped recovery: Economic data in aggregate have continued to surprise to the upside, building our confidence in a V-shaped recovery....
...Recent studies have demonstrated that most of the shift is driven by the under 35 age group, who have a divorce probability of 18.1 per cent vs 37.2 per cent in the 55+ cohort....
...AstraZeneca Plc has made a preliminary approach to rival drugmaker Gilead Sciences Inc. about a potential merger, according to people familiar with the matter, in what would be the biggest health-care deal...
...But, on a year-on-year basis, their forecast for US growth shows -11% in Q2, -8% in Q3, and -5% in Q4, which clearly qualifies as U-shaped....
...The U.S. government assumes that a pandemic will last 18 months or longer and could include multiple waves of illness....
...We think Airbus would be best-positioned to benefit from a V-shaped recovery in 2021....
...Alexi Drew is a postdoctoral research associate in the Centre for Science and Security Studies at King’s College London....
...With the new threat to sue from a coalition of US states, it’s going to be a tough call to make for the US regulator. DD’s Indap v NYU’s Damodaran: Is stock compensation good or bad?...
...The Covid-19 vaccine(s) will prove a shot in the arm for both the UK economy and its peers....
...Thanks to a series of court rulings since the mid-2000s, such as eBay v MercExchange in 2007, Mayo Collaborative Services v Prometheus Laboratories in 2012 and Alice Corp v CLS Bank in 2014, and the subsequent...
...According to a recent study, companies want firms that are in the flow and up to date on the latest transaction innovations....
...“People focus on hardware way too much — it’s a content business, not a technology business,” he continues. “You can’t put Grand Theft Auto V on an iPhone, it’s not the same experience....
...The $800 Bublcam is about the size and shape of a tennis ball, while the $350 Ricoh Theta S is smaller but thicker than an iPhone 6....
...Quartz reports breathlessly that the “mid-life crisis is real”, citing a University of Warwick study showing that age plotted against happiness produces a U-shaped curve....
...Yes, this assumes the worst in each case, and there are exceptions and spectrums and caveats and “to be sure”s and “don’t get me wrong”s....
...(Bloomberg) GM “must turn over documents related to its subprime auto-lending under a subpoena issued by the U.S....
...study has found....
...Trafigura did not disclose a price for its 30 per cent holding in a copper smelter belonging to state-owned Jinchuan Group, China’s top nickel miner and one of its largest copper producers....
...(Reuters) COMMENTS AND CURIOS Fed study: rate peg off mark (WSJ) Of debt, growth, interest rates and history (Bloomberg – Reinhart) Germany is a weight on the world (Financial Times Wolf) Assad is using...
...Morgan Chase manipulated U.S. energy markets, according to people familiar with the case, marking the latest legal hurdle for a bank already facing a mountain of litigation and regulatory scrutiny.”...
...Japanese equities rebounded after Monday’s losses linked to disappointment over the Q2 GDP data, while a weaker yen and a report prime minister Shinzo Abe called for a study into cutting corporate tax....
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