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...Mark Hodges, the former chief of Aviva UK and British Gas and current chair of insurer RSA, has been named chair of MAC II — the latest acquisition company in the UK by London-based sponsor Marwyn....
...Maine’s Portland International jetport has suffered from a lack of business travel this quarter, with domestic flights down 15 per cent from the first quarter of 2019....
...Unity College, a private college in Maine, was the first higher education institution in the US to divest from fossil fuels in 2012....
...In the past two years, electric vehicles’ share of the US car market has nearly doubled from 1.7 per cent....
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...(FT) News round-up UK insurer RSA in talks to be acquired for £7.1bn (FT) US justice department sues to block Visa’s $5.3bn Plaid takeover (FT) Intesa Sanpaolo chief calls for cross-border European banking...
...The Internet of (Five) Things 1....
...The consolidation of moderate Democratic supporters, including black voters, around Mr Biden left Mr Sanders with victories in just three of the 14 states voting on Tuesday, with Maine still to declare....
...1976; Daniel Boorstin, librarian of US Congress, Washington, DC, July 29 1976 Fifth row: Felix Rohatyn, chairman, Municipal Assistance Corporation, New York, April 15 1976; William Paley, chairman, CBS Inc...
...In total, private equity groups are sitting on $1.2tn of dry powder....
...More than 40 big companies, including Mars Inc, PepsiCo and Unilever, are now experimenting with reusable packaging, according to the foundation....
...Reports on Sky News last night suggested that Mr Scicluna will be regarded as “a safe pair of hands” by City institutions, having helped steer RSA through a difficult period after he took over....
...Micro Focus edged higher after the software group confirmed that Elliott Advisors, the activist hedge fund, had taken a 5.1 per cent stake....
...According to a report last year by research firm Frost & Sullivan and ISC², a training organisation, 1.5m cyber security jobs will be unfilled by 2020....
...In Japan the Topix was up 0.5 per cent, while Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 slipped 0.5 per cent Futures tip the FTSE 100 to open 0.2 per cent higher while the S&P 500 is set to open up 0.1 per cent later in...
...Uber also published findings from a poll of 1,000 Uber drivers that found 91 per cent were “very” or “somewhat” satisfied with driving with Uber....
...Meantime Allied Progress, an anti-bank group, is running TV ads in Alaska, Maine and Ohio, urging voters there to harangue their officials....
...Roughly 1.1m people work in Britain’s gig economy and 69 per cent of them are male, according to a face-to-face survey of 8,000 people by Ipsos Mori and the RSA (the Royal Society for the encouragement of...
...Alongside the presidential election, five states voted on whether to legalise the recreational use of cannabis, with Maine, Massachusetts and Nevada, voting in favour, along with California....
...EMC is already a big player in security, thanks to it $2.1bn purchase of RSA Security in 2006....
...The S&P 500 fell 2.6 per cent to 1,881.77, the Dow Jones Industrial Average declined 1.9 per cent to 16,001.89, and the Nasdaq Composite lost 3 per cent to 4,543.97....
...Earnings reports include Kraft Heinz, Time Inc., News Corp, Walt Disney and Weight Watchers....
...Her case is one of roughly 1,000 lodged in Missouri, while a further 200 have been filed in New Jersey....
...These were 1 per cent lower at $840m, compared with forecasts of a 12.8 per cent rise, according to Reuters....
...Mr Senn had been under pressure since he was forced to halt a £5.6bn bid for RSA, the UK insurer, to deal instead with problems in Zurich’s general insurance division....
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