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...The work of his daughter, Michelle, at the Humane Society drew him to the animal welfare issue at McDonald’s....
...Since the war began, international corporations including Renault, Shell and McDonald’s have marked a retreat from Russia....
...But ESG activists are jumping into all manner of new battles right now, with some unlikely alliances emerging (just look at Carl Icahn’s astonishing battles with McDonald’s in relation to pigs)....
...TPG also laid out a plan to become a fully independent public corporation over the next five years, giving recently promoted dealmakers increasing power inside the firm....
...Turns out you can skip the “S” in ESG after all....
...Globally, corporations have raised $2tn so far this year in bonds alone, a $600bn increase on the same period of 2019, according to rating agency S&P....
...Today we have: What has changed in the year since the Business Roundtable redefined the purpose of a corporation?...
...There was a catch: The training would be required only at the roughly 5 per cent of McDonald’s restaurants owned by the corporation....
...Musk has had a love/hate relationship with public markets over the past few years but, with a valuation that’s now on par with McDonald’s, we’ll bet he’s lovin’ it....
...While social factors — the “S” in ESG — have stolen the spotlight from “E” (environment) due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Ms Knight thinks the impact of the shift is limited in this region....
...Not only has Wells Fargo bought back shares while laying off workers, but McDonald’s has done so while fiercely resisting calls to raise worker pay to $15 an hour....
...Its early lending activity focused on corporations but over the past 10 years its loan book has become primarily concentrated on retail banking....
...Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said 70 per cent of the benefits would flow to employees while Democrats countered that the surge in buyback spending showed investors, big corporations and top executives...
...Not every consumer brand was weak, however: McDonald’s reported 3.9 per cent sales growth in the US, and PepsiCo reported 2 per cent organic sales growth in North America. 3) The weaker dollar will boost...
...McDonald’s chairman Mr Hernandez, who has been a director of the bank since 2003, sustained the largest protest with only 53 per cent backing....
...A new record for the S&P led by financials The S&P 500 matters greatly for institutional investors because it is the dominant benchmark for many portfolios....
...US markets S&P 500 up +0.43 (+0.02%) at 2,133 DJIA up +39.44 (+0.22%) at 18,138 Nasdaq up +0.83 (+0.02%) at 5,214 European markets Eurofirst 300 up +17.59 (+1.33%) at 1,342 FTSE100 up +35.81 (+0.51%)...
...The S&P 500 fell 0.1 per cent to 2,030.77, the Dow Jones Industrial Average dipped 0.1 per cent to 17,217.11 and the Nasdaq Composite slipped 0.5 per cent to 4,880.97....
...“Corporations want to see top-line growth before they start estimating earnings power.” eric.platt@ft.com Twitter: @ericgplatt...
...first quarter] and S&P’s and Moody’s downgraded the issuer.”...
...However, the group said that it had escaped the worst from the recent gridlock at major ports on the US west coast that disrupted production at car factories, led to shortages of French fries at Japanese McDonald...
...MSCI’s US Reit Index is down 10 per cent since January, while the S&P 500 has risen 1 per cent....
...McDonald’s has been leading the trend for sometime: shedding customers left, right and centre....
...Safety is a big selling point for aircraft that are expected to carry heads of state and leaders of large public corporations....
...P 500 up +1.36% at 1,675 Bovespa up +2.51% at 46,626 Asia Nikkei 225 up +0.23% at 14,506 Topix up +0.60% at 1,202 Hang Seng down -0.75% at 21,277 Shanghai Composite down -1.62% at 2,039 MSCI Asia ex-Japan...
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