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...Junk investors are buying issues from good companies (Lamar Advertising), perhaps bad (chemical and ammunition group Olin), and ugly (Royal Caribbean Cruises), thanks to the US Federal Reserve’s bridge loan...
...The most streamed artists include Sheeran, Little Mix and Kendrick Lamar although the overall charts included older acts such as Roy Orbison and George Michael, who died at the end of 2016, among the top...
...Republican senator Lamar Alexander said he had spent 40 years trying to bring the car industry to his state, Tennessee, and had repeatedly tried — and failed — to talk Mr Trump out of his approach....
...The soundtrack, curated by the rapper Kendrick Lamar, has topped Billboard’s album chart for two weeks....
...Music copyright is fragmented and Facebook has spent the past few years negotiating with different rights holders, after Universal Music, the record label behind Kendrick Lamar, slapped Facebook with tens...
...More recently, Kahlil Joseph has won acclaim for his work with Kendrick Lamar, and on Beyoncé’s 2016 opus Lemonade, as has Emma Westenberg for her “PYNK” video for Janelle Monáe....
...The year’s previous bestseller, Kendrick Lamar’s DAMN, sold 603,000 album-equivalent copies in its first week and about a third of that came from streaming....
...So far this year, Kendrick Lamar holds the title for the biggest first-week album sales, with 603,000 album-equivalent units — including streaming, downloads and CDs....
...As videos on Facebook ballooned in the past few years, Universal, the record label behind Kendrick Lamar and Taylor Swift, slapped Facebook with tens of thousands of takedown notices....
...Mars and Kendrick Lamar dominated the ceremony, scoring six and five awards respectively to cap off a year dominated by hip-hop and R&B as digital streaming dominates music’s biggest market....
...Kendrick Lamar, Ed Sheeran, Adele . . . they stopped touring and made their record.” How long will Iovine stay with Apple? His life has changed in many ways since the deal was struck....
...Earlier this year, Lamar Media completed a drive-by deal, selling $400m in debt. Benchmark offerings tend to be at least $500m or larger....
Tie-up’s approval could pave way for further bank consolidation
...Last year, BP said it was aiming for that break-even at $60 oil, but Lamar McKay, the newly-promoted deputy chief executive, says executives believe they can “probably do a bit better than that”....
...The restructuring will fuel speculation that Clear Channel is planning to convert its US unit into a real estate investment trust (Reit), following similar moves in 2014 by rival US groups Lamar Advertising...
...Although he still produces new acts, such as rapper Kendrick Lamar, his solo recording career has taken a back seat since 2008....
...Shares in Equinix dropped 5.5 per cent to $192.57, while Lamar lost 4.2 per cent to $43.62....
...CBS had already acknowledged that it was considering a Reit, following in the path of Lamar Advertising, a smaller billboard rival....
...CBS, the media group, acknowledged that it had considered making its outdoor advertising unit a Reit, following the lead of its rival Lamar. Mr Wechsler said a number of groups were evaluating it....
...“Lamar McKay, BP’s US president at the time of the disaster, said that although the company had accepted in its settlement of criminal charges last year that it had “ultimate responsibility” for the safety...
...Zions Bancorporation , the Utah-based bank, has climbed 17.3 per cent to $22.28 since last Friday as the bank said this week that it planned to repay part of its $1.4bn in US government bailout funds....
...Zions Bancorporation soared 10.5 per cent to $21.58 as the bank said it planned to issue $600m in senior debt to help repay $1.4bn in US government bailout funds....
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