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...Activist investor Carl Icahn has secured two seats on the board of US airliner JetBlue....
...Senators agree on modest US gun reforms in wake of shootings A bipartisan group of 20 US senators has reached a tentative deal on gun-control measures that would fund states to enact “red flag” laws and...
...In 2019 it generated a 58 per cent net return, about double the S&P 500....
...The language of “our” civilisation under attack resonated with a much-touted article published in 1993 by Harvard professor Samuel P Huntington: “The Clash of Civilizations?”...
...“How long [the interior department] will need to properly complete the review is unclear, but it might consume a year or more,” said Carl Tobias, a law professor at the University of Richmond....
...“A vibrant market-based system depends on the robustness of institutions and the rule of law. They are critical underpinnings,” Mr El-Erian says....
...We saw the Wisconsin governor voted out of office, Scott Walker, a big name Republican, got voted out by a Democrat....
...Law firm Baker Botts has hired Stuart Blythe as a corporate partner in its London office. He joins from CMS....
...Onishi was previously a counsel at Linklaters. Weil, Gotshal & Manges has hired Benjamin de Blegiers as a private equity and M&A partner in the law firm’s Paris office....
...They just have to beat a benchmark — post a higher return than the S&P 500, say, for equity PMs, which we call “generating alpha” — and alpha doesn’t review time sheets (if only)....
...A fight between Carl Icahn and Jeff Smith over the board of Newell Brands, the target of both men’s activist funds, came to a close on Monday after the consumer goods company agreed to a deal that would...
...“The rating actions reflect continued lack of agreement on fiscal reforms to return the state to structural balance,” said S&P analyst Timothy Little....
...Mick Mulvaney: a fiscal hawk at the government’s budget office The Republican Congressman of South Carolina is a founding member of the House’s fiscally conservative Freedom Caucus, and will head the Office...
...Detroit “set a fairly dangerous precedent” for GO bondholders, he says. “Politics seemed to trump the rule of law.”...
...The S&P 500’s jump of 1.2 per cent on Friday, in spite of a sell-off in Asia earlier in that session, gave investors in Asia another reason to reassess valuations....
...This was a marked improvement over September’s 0.3% decline and above the median forecast of a 1.5% expansion from a Wall Street Journal poll of economists.”...
...perspective of a medical campaigner who helped frame the liberal Dutch laws on assisted dying...
...A secret US bank ‘recovery plan’ programme has been going on for two years, applied to five of the country’s biggest banks and overseen by the Federal Reserve and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency...
...NEWS HSBC money laundering fine could total $1.8bn: “HSBC might pay a fine of $1.8 billion as part of a settlement with U.S. law-enforcement agencies over money-laundering lapses, according to several people...
...Those mortgages carry an unpaid principal balance of $275bn, according to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, a bank regulator....
...She e-mailed him at 5:37 p.m. with a draft of what the Fed would tell the world the next morning at 8 a.m....
...Gerhardt, professor of constitutional law at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, claims he has never had so much fun writing a book as he did with this one....
...“So I thought I would put together a portfolio of S&P 500 stocks, with 85 per cent exposure, then used OEX [the S&P 100 index] positions as a hedge.”...
...White & Case, the law firm that represented creditors in Chrysler, did not immediately return a call seeking comment....
...“Essentially, a model is based on Newton’s Laws of Motion. All we’re trying to do with the models is quantify [the warming] better and say what the regional changes are.”...
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