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...It is building a facility in Penang, but some US lawmakers already want to restrict American companies from collaborating on RISC-V projects....
...Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway purchased a $4.1bn stake in chipmaker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing in the third quarter, vaulting a third tech company into the sprawling industrial conglomerate...
...Jones Lang LaSalle O: 6; L: 7; I: 5; Total: 18 The leadership team at the property consultancy launched training programmes through a central platform to build cohesion within the newly centralised global...
...A big reason for the interest in bringing manufacturing back home was the difficulty in sourcing goods from abroad....
...“Buying an insurance company that looks a lot like Berkshire sounds like it could fit well,” said James Shanahan, an analyst at Edward Jones. “And perhaps Buffett needs a win.”...
...Write to the FintechFT team at imani.moise@ft.com and sid.v@ft.com....
...Industrial gas companies are prioritising CO2 supplies to end users....
...James Shanahan, an analyst with Edward Jones, estimates that Berkshire has sold $13.6bn more in stock than it has purchased since early 2020....
...Charted waters looks into the rollout of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine....
...How would we go about manufacturing something of this scale? The particular concept that we're looking at is one that would be extremely modular in character....
...Abel shepherds the company’s non-insurance investments, including the Burlington Northern Railroad, manufacturing businesses, and utilities he once ran as chief executive....
...In Europe, the chief of Atlas Copco, Sweden’s biggest company, has told the FT he is expecting big growth rates in automated manufacturing....
...The latter is based on the open-source Risc-V architecture....
...The first generation of vaccine developers had to battle to scale up manufacturing but now have a stranglehold on some key vaccine inputs....
...The order, which came into effect on Monday, has forced index providers, including MSCI, FTSE Russell, S&P Dow Jones Indices and JPMorgan, to announce the removal of several Chinese companies from their...
...The first shipments of Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine are already speeding through the Eurotunnel from a Belgian manufacturing plant to the UK, which approved its use this week....
...The PMIs’ trajectories might look v-shaped. But in terms of convincing us that we’re in the throes of a v-shaped recovery, they do anything but....
...The agreement, which will entail GM supply manufacturing and other services to Nikola, sent shares of the upstart company up more than 40 per cent....
...Smart reads A tale of two supply chains Washington’s intensifying trade war with Beijing and economic fallout from the pandemic have spliced China’s massive global manufacturing industry as more companies...
...S&P Dow Jones Indices, which manages the benchmark, snubbed the California electric vehicle maker in the first round of additions since June, which were announced late on Friday....
...James Shanahan, an analyst at Edward Jones, added that the company’s disclosure with the Securities and Exchange Commission indicated it had continued to buy back its own shares in July....
...“What you’re seeing is an expectation of a V-shaped recovery and that may prove to be too optimistic.”...
...But those purchases did not continue into the start of April, according to James Shanahan, an analyst who follows Berkshire at Edward Jones....
...“Not all the opportunities will come in the first two to three months of the crisis,” James Shanahan, an analyst who follows Berkshire at Edward Jones, said....
...But, in terms of financing the deal, Xerox is a much smaller company — its market cap is only $8bn and HP Inc's is now $30bn, after its shares rose 11 per cent today on the report....
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