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...“It will probably be Trump and I’m not happy about that,” Peltz said....
...I’m Benjamin Zephaniah. You are wonderful. Bye.”...
...And here’s what I’m keeping tabs on today: Federal Reserve: The US central bank begins a two-day meeting to decide interest rates. It is expected to keep borrowing costs at their current 23-year high....
...The hedge fund manager getting all the attention, of course, is Nelson Peltz, the octogenarian co-founder of Trian Fund Management....
...“I’m interested in people that are trapped, black, white, whatever race: that is what attracts me . . . the trap that we are all in and how we try to get out of it, how we survive and the effects of that...
...Nelson: I’m just going to interject one little thing, and that is that it’s a tool, like Liz said. We have to use every possible leverage point that we have in order to move worker power....
...“If we’re stuck with ‘Well, I’m white and I don’t want to be made to feel bad’, that is really a non-starter,” he says....
...“When I’m building one of the enclosed forms and I’m up there on a scaffold and the wheel is moving, there’s an almost psychic feeling that I’m going to be pulled down into the pot,” she said....
...Meanwhile, I’m still unsure even why Israel is razing Gaza....
...Nelson Peltz vs Bob Iger: the sequel The approach of the festive season is usually a time for coming together and burying the hatchet. That is, unless you’re Nelson Peltz....
...I’m baffled by why we fail to learn anything from history.”...
...In today’s newsletter: AHO turns to telco PE’s big windfall Japan steels itself for more M&A ‘As Nelson Mandela said . . . ’ Yesterday, DD formally bid farewell to Credit Suisse....
...We had this very funny colour sergeant who, if you were late by one minute, but there were 30 men in the platoon, said you were actually 30 man-minutes late....
...you can’t miss Lunch with Nelson Peltz, who in keeping with his tribe would rather be rich than right....
...And so even a Republican with the most transactional, dollars-and-cents view of the world ends up backing a police-sergeant role for America. Better that than expensive disruptions to shipping lanes....
...Our favourite pieces First some personal news: next week I’m moving to a new job at the FT and Hannah Rock will be in charge of FT Edit....
...Reporting on this great story of hope, which was the end of apartheid and the election of Nelson Mandela, and I must confess....
...Here’s what else I’m keeping tabs on today: US-China relations: The US Treasury secretary Janet Yellen will depart for China later today....
...Disney has defeated a challenge to its board from activist investor Nelson Peltz “by a substantial margin”....
...Here’s what else I’m keeping tabs on today: Economic data: Economists expect retail sales to have rebounded in February from a fall in January....
...[‘TEXAS HOLD ’EM PLAYING] Lilah RaptopoulosThe album features country greats from Dolly Parton to Willie Nelson. It features a duet with Miley Cyrus....
...Ortenca, I’m stepping into your beat a little bit. I’m long deals. I feel like deals are back. You know, we saw an uptick in M&A, mergers and acquisitions, in the fourth quarter....
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