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...White combines an advance of the g pawn to weaken Black’s king with central pressure up the d file, plus tactical tricks at b5. Lan Yao’s instructive win combines all three themes....
...France’s Atlantic coast in August, passing my days going up in one of those zero-gravity airliners astronauts once called “vomit comets”, being thrown around in an aerobatic plane to experience launch g-forces...
...— Overview of the Social Capital S-1 (Kara Swisher): Translation: Going public is a pain in the neck. And other tech bros are the answer to those annoying banker bros!...
...The labelling on the chart has been amended for clarity Letter in response to this article: The importance of making accurate comparisons / From James G Bridgeman, Quaker Hill, CT, US...
...Forwarded Yahoo media unit restructuring No word yet on any Yahoo internet spin-off, but Re/code’s Kara Swisher reports Yahoo has been preparing to make big changes to its media unit, restructuring and...
...With his wife, Kara, who has designed jewellery for Michelle Obama, he has four daughters. Friends say he also has a collection of “pseudo-sons”, loyal managers at the heads of his businesses....
...MBA student Laura Musano recently completed the workshop, working on a project for handbag collection Kara. “I really liked that it opened up two-way learning,” she says....
...Kara Scannell, the FT's US regulatory correspondent, highlights the important moments of the trial....
...● M&G Investments has added two direct lending specialists as associate directors to its corporate lending team....
...Kara Scannell, US regulatory correspondent, and Stephen Foley, US markets reporter, talk to the FT's Arash Massoudi about the US Department of Justice's fraud case against S&P and what the spectre of a $5bn-plus...
...Additional reporting by Kara Scannell in New York...
...The economic issues are trivial by comparison, unless one is assuming that there will never ever be another comparable external threat – e.g., from Putin’s Russia....
...manager, that “Raj’s guy on the P&G board” said organic sales growth was going to be lower than forecast....
...P&G announced the sale on June 4 before the stock market opened. During the meeting, Mr Cardillo testified, RK Rajaratnam told him that P&G was selling its Folgers business to Smucker’s....
...Lena Komileva, G+ Economics: The uptrend in UK house prices is largely a secular trend....
...P&G announced the sale the next morning before trading began....
...Mr Gupta, who was a P&G director, is accused of telling Mr Rajaratnam about the takeover before it was announced....
...on January 29, 2009, he started shorting shares of Procter & Gamble - betting it would drop in price - after learning from Rajaratnam’s brother RK, a Galleon portfolio manager, that “Raj’s guy on the P&G...
...Also included on witness lists submitted by lawyers are A.G....
...His lawyer was able to show the jury analyst reports speculating that P&G might need to revise lower its organic sales growth forecasts....
...“You’ve seen the pattern over and over again,” Mr Tarlowe on Wednesday recounted board meetings at Goldman and P&G, then listed the associated phone records that he alleged connected Mr Gupta to Galleon...
...Less than half an hour after that meeting, where Mr Gupta learnt the consumer company would report better than expected earnings, Mr Rajaratnam bought $90m worth of P&G stock....
...Lena Komileva, G+ Economics: In short, no....
...Amit Kara, UBS: Economic growth will likely moderate, but we see healthy economic growth next year as well....
...Amit Kara, UBS: Hopefully that productivity has improved and that the puzzle is behind us....
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