Hints and tips:
...Alphaville was recently flipping through the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) data dump from the US Treasury and came across loans for two entities called Delight Holdco I LLC and Delight Holdco II LLC....
...In December 2014, Mr Smith donated all the income he had accumulated offshore, some $200m, to a charitable foundation he runs, the Fund II Foundation....
...What about the other side of the scheme, the Russian “king contractor” Alexander Karmanov?...
...The audit found that: i) the unnamed businessman, rather than Mr Kulibayev, was the “ultimate beneficiary from the Kazakhstani side in relations with ETK”; ii) the GPO did not find any illegal involvement...
...All of this puts serious doubts on Vision Fund II....
...But his rivals do not see Mr Hall’s decision to shutter his flagship Astenbeck Master Commodities Fund II as a sign that investing in oil is dying out, despite him joining at least 10 commodity-focused funds...
...Internationally, Yum Brands, which operates KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell, has been keeping the pressure on McDonald’s....
...This was once a question asked only by kings, presidents, and public figures trying to dodge the paparazzi and criminals trying to evade the law....
...However, the company is facing tougher competition in the US from Burger King and Wendy’s and an increasingly strong rival abroad in Yum! Brands, which operates KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell....
...Burger King currently has just 63 restaurants in China, against McDonald’s 1,400 while Yum Brands, operator of KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell and the dominant player in the country, has about 4,000....
...It reminds us of Texas Competitive Electric Holdings Company LLC (TCEH) in 2011....
...● Glendevon King Asset Management is adding a Norwegian krona share class to its Global Bond Fund II, which focuses on the Nordic countries, considered “among the safest in the world for investment”....
...Commandment II: You shall not front-load your fiscal adjustment, unless financing needs require it....
...“Will [the Supreme Court ruling] allow Hugo Chávez and King Abdullah to buy US elections?”...
...As the minutes tick by I begin to devise an – admittedly stupid – alternative plan that involves me taking the current holder of the best actress Oscar to the Taco Bell a few blocks from the hotel....
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