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...Throughout the 1980s, Marks began investing in many high-yield bond issues, which were unleashed in the name of leveraged buyouts (RJR Nabisco) and empire building (Wynn Resorts)....
...Others included Democratic senators Elizabeth Warren and Cory Booker. But moderate Democrats effectively sided with Republican leaders....
...Buffett dumps Wells Fargo shares Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway sold the vast majority of its stake in Wells Fargo in the first quarter, according to filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission...
...Elizabeth Warren, the Democratic senator and former presidential hopeful, has pushed for Mr Trump to call up army reservists to convert or construct medical facilities and “fortify” the domestic response...
...Additional reporting by Mamta Badkar in New York, and Katrina Manson and Lauren Fedor in Washington...
...After Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the Atlanta Fed realised that its New Orleans branch, on relatively high ground on historic St Charles Avenue, had become stranded, and unable to distribute cash....
...Reporting by Kiran Stacey, Katrina Manson and Kadhim Shubber in Washington; Robert Armstrong in New York; and Derek Brower in London...
...Catch up: FT’s US foreign policy correspondent Katrina Manson explained Joe Biden’s and Donald Trump’s foreign policy plans for Iran, China and the EU in an Instagram Live last Friday....
...But US military officials believe China is hot on their heels, US foreign policy and defence correspondent Katrina Manson reports....
...During Design Week, Tollgard met Will Kavesh, founder of Token, and discovered his collection of cabinets, tables and chairs (for example, the cantilevered, leather-upholstered Warren lounge chair)....
...Separately, Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway spent $800m this week increasing its stake in Bank of America....
...additional reporting by Katrina Manson in Washington...
...Reporting by James Politi, Katrina Manson, Lauren Fedor, Aime Williams, Kiran Stacey and Kadhim Shubber in Washington...
...The company also plans to make surgical masks at a Warren, Michigan, plant, reaching 50,000 a day in two weeks....
...Ditto for Elizabeth Warren. Which would leave Sanders and Bloomberg. It is hard to overstate the almost theological gap between their respective world views....
...One thing to start: Wynn Resorts, the Las Vegas-based casino company, has approached Australian rival Crown Resorts with a $7.1bn offer, as consolidation talks in the gambling industry intensify....
...The fires increase those odds,” said Katrina Ell, an economist at Moody’s Analytics....
...West has form when it comes to philanthropy, having supported dozens of causes, from Doctors Without Borders, Oxfam, Save the Children and Stand Up to Cancer, to the victims of Hurricane Katrina and the...
...Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway successfully defended the near monopoly held by its electric utility in Nevada, after an expensive and contentious state referendum that pitted the famed investor against...
...SoftBank’s ambitious chief executive Masayoshi Son, has often talked about turning his company into an version of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway....
...The unpopularity of the Iraq war and George W Bush’s mishandling of Hurricane Katrina had been rising steadily for the previous year. Bush rightly described his party’s defeat as a “thumpin’”....
...That was my aim, too — to show Marie with all her flaws, “trailing clouds of glory and pandemonium” as Katrina Heron, her close friend from Yale, put it....
...One of the biggest gainers is likely to be Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, in part because of the conglomerate’s focus on the US economy....
...Google Rivals Ask EU to Toughen Measures in Antitrust Case (WSJ) Informa makes formal takeover offer for UBM (FT) One of Europe’s largest buyout firms is turning its attention to Scandinavia (BBG) Wynn...
...Only 2005 — when Hurricane Katrina hit the US — and 2011 — when there were earthquakes in Japan and New Zealand — were more costly....
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