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...“Retail tends to like these low-price stocks because they think that ‘Hey, if it only goes up a penny [then] I’ve doubled my money’,” said Larry Tabb, head of market structure research at Bloomberg Intelligence...
...Read our tale below about new attacks on Larry Fink, head of BlackRock, over this — including calls for his resignation....
...Chart of the week Use of a Federal Reserve facility for storing cash has halved from its peak as money market funds plough their excess funds into US government debt instead, writes Jennifer Hughes in New...
...Republican state treasurers around the US have pledged to pull more than $3bn from BlackRock funds over its efforts to address climate change, and the North Carolina treasurer called for the resignation of Larry...
...Contending that the firm was hostile to fossil fuel, Republican states have pulled more than $3bn in funds from BlackRock and North Carolina’s treasurer has called for the ouster of founder Larry Fink from...
...The company has sold a series of large assets over the past five years, including its biotech business to Danaher for $21bn and its stake in Baker Hughes, the oil services company....
...Meanwhile, Hollywood continues to attract wealthy scions with mixed results — ask Oracle’s Larry Ellison about his daughter Megan’s movie production house, Annapurna....
...“I still think it’s possible . . . for us to be a more important company than Microsoft,” Larry Ellison said in 2014....
...In this interesting analysis, Jonathan Ford and Laura Hughes explore the decisions that led to the UK banning the Chinese tech champion from its 5G mobile network on security grounds....
...The industrial conglomerate. whose chief executive Larry Culp has been working to improve cash flow following financial and business mis-steps under previous management, slashed its shareholder dividend...
...That would likely constitute an improvement from $2.3bn it reported for 2019 and is a sharp departure from the annual outlook early last year, when chief executive Larry Culp warned of potential negative...
...Larry Culp, appointed chief executive 13 months ago, has described 2019 as a “reset year.”...
...Since taking over the top job last year, Larry Culp has made reducing this debt-load a priority....
...Larry Culp, GE’s chief executive, called that arrangement “market manipulation — pure and simple”....
...Some of their number founded world-improving companies (Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Larry Page), which suggests no lack of talent or pluck on their part....
...Larry Murrin, a businessman in the Republic who is head of Dawn Farm Foods, said: “The DUP is having plenty of straightforward business, farming and agri-food wisdom given to it, whether it wants it or not...
...Her first show will be the painter Patrick Hughes, who she will go on to represent for 48 years....
...Larry Culp, chief executive of General Electric for the past four months, had a pragmatic sense of what was expected when he reported earnings for the first quarter since he took over: “The absence of new...
...Larry Culp, the former Danaher chief executive who took over at GE in October, sold the biopharma business to his former company at a price exceeding earlier estimates, sending GE shares sharply higher as...
...The sale of Baker Hughes shares follows assurances from Larry Culp, GE’s chief executive, that the company was moving with a “sense of urgency” to reduce its debts....
...The grand strategy is still the plan that GE set out in June: radical simplification, including selling its 62.5 per cent stake in Baker Hughes, the oilfield services group, and splitting off the healthcare...
...In recent months, it agreed to sell most of its life sciences business to Danaher for $21bn and announced plans to raise $4bn from selling part of its stake in Baker Hughes....
...In the words of BlackRock chief executive Larry Fink: “Society is increasingly looking to companies, both public and private, to address pressing social and economic issues.”...
...Over the summer, Larry Culp toured some of General Electric’s operations to introduce himself to the company where he had just been appointed lead independent director....
...Larry Kudlow, the top White House economic official, on Sunday dismissed concerns of a looming recession. “I don’t see a recession at all,” he told Fox News Sunday ....
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