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...Ratcliffe’’s proposal values United at $33 a share. The A shares closed at less than $20 each on Friday....
...A new high-speed rail line will now only be built from London to Birmingham, with HS2’s custom-built trains shifting on to existing tracks the rest of the way to the north of England....
...I’m not going to lie about my tax advice, that would be ridiculous,” she told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme....
...More than half of Thames Water’s debt is index-linked, according to rating agency S&P, burdening it with higher interest repayments as inflation soared over the past 18 months.The utility may also face large...
...Jim Chanos, one of Wall Street’s most prominent bears, is closing his short-focused hedge funds after more than three decades, he told the Wall Street Journal....
...Sunak said in a recent article in the Times that he “understand[s] people’s anger when that dream [of home ownership] feels too far away for too many, especially the younger generation”....
...The closer you get to a general election, the more they start to ask a *different* question: do I prefer the alternative(s), or not?...
...S&P rates EDF as BBB compared with AA for French government bonds....
...One of Wall Street’s best-known bears, Jim Chanos, has told his backers he is closing his main short-focused hedge funds after more than three decades....
...“It was an unprecedented leak of MI5’s secrets for government advantage,” said Tim Tate, author of an upcoming book on the Spycatcher affair....
...The reinsurer was at the heart of 777’s “insurance funding model”, according to 2021 pitch documents that said 777 Re sat between third party insurers and 777 portfolio companies....
...“The Greek case has become more sophisticated — arguing for a loan rather than restitution of ownership — and contrasts with the [British Museum]’s blinkered intransigence to consider any compromises,” she...
...In Bolton, Greater Manchester, high winds overnight caused the frontage of an M&S store to shatter inwards, while in Derbyshire a man was taken to hospital after his car was hit by a tree....
...But who would have predicted a Christmas-themed Darwin Nunez X Jim Royle mashup?...
...Though Downing Street officials said all policy decisions in the Sunak administration stem from the prime minister himself, Gilligan, a former journalist, is to HS2’s supporters the bête noire lurking in...
...s=20 “The Biden Administration can’t even announce the halt of funding to UNRWA terrorist without equivocating,” Republican senator Tom Cotton said....
...Maybe Jim Chanos closing his hedge fund last November marked the nadir of short selling?...
...In a statement on Wednesday, rail minister Huw Merriman said HS2’s management had increased the upper estimate for the project to £57bn in 2019 prices....
...Meanwhile, Gilligan argued, half of HS2’s benefits went to London and the south-east, meaning that the project’s impact on “levelling up” Britain had been exaggerated....
...The transport department said in a statement that HS2’s “governance [was] being strengthened to further increase the focus on cost control and increase government oversight”....
...However, Jim Masturzo chief investment officer, multi-asset strategies, at Research Affiliates, the smart beta index specialist, urges patience....
...The Nasdaq ETF QQQ is up around 6 per cent since May, with the S&P 500 up 7 per cent....
...Sunak said the government would shift £36bn planned for HS2’s northern leg to other road, rail and bus projects which would give people in the north of England and Midlands “significant improvements to the...
...A number of the rail projects had been previously mooted by government, including in 2021’s Integrated Rail Plan, but the funding had not been committed....
...The S&P 500 is up 4 per cent year to date....
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