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...Isaac Perlmutter, who sold Marvel to Disney in 2009 and sometimes clashed with the company’s chief executive, Bob Iger, has been laid off from the company as part of a round of job cuts....
...Kevin Lansberry, the company’s chief financial officer, recently said he expects the company to increase dividends and buy back shares in future....
...Getting the deal through the House proved to be a tough test for Republican House leader Kevin McCarthy. He had to rein in far-right party members in order to secure enough votes for a deal....
...Isaac “Ike” Perlmutter, the billionaire who sold Marvel to Disney in 2009 and had clashed with the company’s chief executive Bob Iger, has been ousted as the entertainment group embarks on thousands of job...
...Private credit co-heads James Reynolds and Kevin Sterling have also been named global head of direct lending and global head of investment-grade private credit and asset finance, respectively....
...The Big Read It was science fiction writer Isaac Asimov who first mooted the idea of space solar power in his 1941 short story “Reason”....
...A key question hanging over Disney as it battles a challenge from activist investor Nelson Peltz concerns how many of its shares are held by one of the company’s own employees: Marvel chair Isaac Perlmutter...
...“I think the kabuki theatre is going to be particularly annoying and ugly this time . . . it will force the market to pay attention,” says Isaac Boltansky, policy analyst at BTIG....
...The smaller than expected Republican majority in the House exposes sharp divisions in the party’s ranks and casts doubt on whether Kevin McCarthy will become Speaker....
...Diplomacy US President Joe Biden will host Israeli president Isaac Herzog at the White House, a week before Israel holds elections....
...Rodrigo Garcia Alvarez, founder of paraffin-free candle label Amen, speaks similarly about his customers. “Everyone was telling me, use styrofoam,” he recalls....
...“I did not hear remorse and I didn’t hear an apology, so it’s all about spin,” said Chuy García, a Democrat from Illinois. “She’ll probably try and raise a lot of money from it....
...Kevin Hayes, a former senior vice-president at Long Beach, hit out at Petersen after the Flexport chief claimed in an interview with CNBC that opening at night would ease strains....
...“It did show that inmates and staff alike are capable of anything,” Garcia says....
...As I take a quick glug of negroni, he says he has not signed the petition for a royal commission into the Murdoch empire’s power that was started by former Labor prime minister, Kevin Rudd, and is supported...
...The firm also added Kevin Freer and Andrew Isaac as vice-president and assistant vice-president of its underwriting division, respectively....
...The current challenges to Hong Kong’s financial system are “unprecedented”, said Kevin Lai, chief economist for Asia ex-Japan at Daiwa Securities....
...Kevin Mancuso, the New York hair stylist and trichologist who made his name working with supermodels in the ’80s, has followed his high-profile clients, trichologically speaking, through thick and thin....
...“Kevin feels that something will change and that we will be cyborgs,” she says. “I want to stay human.”...
...“Capital outflow pressure didn’t start on Monday [last week] but we expect it to see a strong increase,” said Alicia García Herrero, chief economist for Natixis in Asia Pacific....
...Whitehead was one of the notable omissions from this year’s Booker Prize longlist but the Irish writer Kevin Barry made the cut, to the delight of his devoted readership....
...Veronica Escobar and Sylvia Garcia Ms Escobar and Ms Garcia became the first Latina women to represent Texas in Congress....
...It might not matter, except this is 1920, midway through the Polish-Soviet war, and these two individuals are Isaac Babel, the Russian writer, and Nikolai Yezhov, who will go on to be the sadistic head of...
...Elsewhere on Wednesday, a few headline… — What Puerto Rico tells us about global trade (Brad Setser) — Leverage in the small and in the large (Hyun Song Shin) — Kevin Warsh, Very Serious Person (Tim Duy...
...The more substantive reason for his elevation to Fed chair is that he represented a safe bet not to raise rates too quickly, unlike his rivals John Taylor and Kevin Warsh....
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