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...And when it did broach difficult or provocative subjects — like in 2011’s “Palestinian Chicken” — it did so in a way that was perfectly pitched between irreverence and understanding....
...Larry Fink faces a proxy challenge to his dual role as chair and chief executive of BlackRock from a UK activist investor that wants more board oversight of the $10tn money manager’s approach to sustainable...
...More than half of BlackRock’s $10tn in assets under management are retirement savings, including institutional pension funds, corporate defined contribution plans known as 401(k)s and individual accounts...
...While the episode doesn’t reach the vertiginous heights of the series’ best — 2011’s “Palestinian Chicken” seems more incisive now than ever — it says something about Curb’s enduring brilliance that even...
...Fifty-four of the 100 largest US public companies do it, said BlackRock in rejecting a challenge concerning Larry Fink’s dual chair and chief executive roles....
...The S&P 500 was down 1.1 per cent in morning trading, about double its decline from just before 10am Eastern time, ahead of the so-called Jolts report....
...Futures contracts tracking Wall Street’s benchmark S&P 500 and those tracking the tech-focused Nasdaq Composite slipped 0.1 per cent ahead of the New York open....
...The head of F1’s governing body told the FT last week it was “damaging the sport”....
...I think this stems from fear and uncertainty,” BlackRock chief executive Larry Fink told analysts on Friday....
...Equally, the few who correctly predicted inflation’s rise, such as Larry Summers, were too pessimistic about how entrenched it was. Inflation is poorly understood, and devilish to forecast....
...An unofficial prerequisite of working for Bet365’s UK operations was to live within 30 miles of Stoke, according to a person familiar with the matter....
...Higher oil prices just stoke fears of a reacceleration of broader price inflation. This would remove one of the factors behind the recent rally in equity prices....
...Friday interview: Larry Summers Larry Summers — former Harvard president and Treasury secretary, and new OpenAI board member — is one of the most influential economists of our time....
...The pro-independence regional government in Catalonia said it would “work to extend” F1’s presence in Catalonia beyond 2026 — and Domenicali said that moving to Madrid did not exclude staying in Barcelona...
...The Catalog was shortlived, producing its final issue in 1971, though Brand went on to co-found the Whole Earth ’Lectronic Link, aka Well, with his friend Larry Brilliant in 1985....
...Between 1995 and 2002, who was the third host of BBC1’s The Generation Game, following Bruce Forsyth and Larry Grayson? Click here for the answers James Walton is co-host of “The Booker Prize Podcast”...
...Larry Sabato, founder of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, said Biden’s age would “of course” be a factor as voters weighed their options in 2024. “How could it not be?”...
...Coates, who founded the company in Stoke-on-Trent more than two decades ago and kept the business in the area, is one of the UK’s highest taxpayers....
...Larry Fink’s empire accounted for almost 10 per cent of MSCI’s overall revenues in 2023, according to the company’s latest 10-Q....
...And so if you want to invest in something that tracks the S&P 500 or the FTSE 100, you can buy a BlackRock fund that does that. And they have lots and lots of them....
...During that time, the S&P 500 is up about 150 per cent....
...and that “S&C knew, or was in a position to know, that FTX was co-mingling customer assets”....
...The S&P 500 closed down almost 1 per cent with roughly nine in every 10 stocks losing ground....
...Perhaps also imagine yourself sitting on the floor next to a broken Avanti toilet somewhere near Stoke in 2044. Rail industry experts take a somewhat different view to the government....
...Furthermore, Fink is not really Team Bitcoin at all — he has said he also “see[s] value” in an ethereum ETF....
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