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...“Converts are going to stay popular because we have a massive maturity wall that’s about to hit,” said Ken Wallach, co-head of global capital markets at law firm Simpson Thacher....
...Private equity firms were sitting on a record $2.59tn in cash reserves available for buyouts and other investments as of December 15, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence....
...Simpson Thacher has hired Adam Risell for the firm’s investment funds practice. He previously worked at Cadwalader....
...Chairman redux As anti-DEI sentiment sweeps corporate America, thousands of filings reveal that S&P 500 companies are changing to gender-neutral language at a slowing rate, Bloomberg reveals....
...“They went crazy laughing at these things,” says Sandy Reynolds-Wasco, set decorator on many of the director’s movies, from 1992’s Reservoir Dogs to 2009’s Inglourious Basterds....
...Anne Simpson, a former managing investment director at the biggest US public pension plan Calpers, has said these votes have largely failed to rein in executive pay in the US....
...Subscribers rose to a peak of 3.41mn in 2019’s accounts, but this figure was restated as just shy of 2mn in 2020’s accounts, and then as 1.1mn in 2021’s accounts....
...Among companies that have reported (about 40 per cent of the S&P 500), nearly four in five have beat earnings expectations, with an average beat of 7.7 per cent, compared with a one-year average of 4.4 per...
...Further reading:Heidegger and Bart Simpson do crypto — FTAV...
...Tesla has raised the prices of two of its most expensive electric vehicles in the US, the Model S and X, by $2,500....
...Eighty-six per cent of S&P 500 companies already report through CDP, and 94 per cent of the UK’s FTSE 100....
...At home, he has campaigned for the Democrats, although his narration of a video celebrating Joe Biden’s first year as president drew comparisons with 2007’s The Simpsons Movie, in which an animated Hanks...
...At FT Globetrotter, we are particularly excited about the Pompidou Centre’s big Brâncuși show in March, the opening of Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson’s Paris bolt-hole, Villa Windsor, in the summer and,...
...“Simply stated, we’re in a freight recession,” said Shelley Simpson, chief executive of trucking group JB Hunt, on a recent earnings call....
...Since then, The Simpsons has become quite successful....
...No, this is Vardy v Rooney: A Courtroom Drama, Channel 4’s two-part re-enactment of the celebrity libel case dubbed the Wagatha Christie trial....
...Sophie Campbell and her husband Duncan were among those that got what they call the “rural itch” during 2020’s lockdown....
...makes the global local and the transitory persistent / From Stephen King, Senior Economic Adviser, HSBC, London E14, UK Haldane’s suggestion has an honourable history / From Jagjit S Chadha, Director,...
...But CA100+’s own benchmark says BP has no targets that are fully aligned with Paris....
...’s parent company Delta Topco in a complex $8bn deal....
...Traitor King by Andrew Lownie, documents Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson’s love affair with the Third Reich....
...Robert Simpson, barrister for the Crown Prosecution Service, told the court that the charges stemmed from an investigation by HMRC into Ecclestone’s finances and during the course of the investigation he...
...Disney cuts ‘Simpsons’ episode with China labour camp reference in Hong Kong The missing programme mentions ‘forced labour camps where children make smartphones’....
...It was a powerhouse year for black music, never more eloquently expressed than in Roberta Flack’s gorgeously understated version of Lori Lieberman’s “Killing Me Softly With His Song”....
...Since the closing of Disney’s acquisition of Fox in March of 2019, its stock price has fallen more than 7 per cent, while the benchmark S&P 500 index has gained more than 40 per cent....
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