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...The writer is founder of Sifted, an FT-backed site about European start-ups Even though it was written 37 years ago, Melvin Kranzberg’s first law of technology resonates today in our fast-evolving world...
...Additional reporting by Stefania Palma in Washington, Harriet Agnew in London and Joe Rennison in New York...
...How the Colombia election could change Latin America For decades Colombia has been a close US ally but the upcoming presidential elections threaten Bogotá’s close relationship with Washington....
...The longtime horseracing columnist for the Washington Post, Beyer wrote a trilogy of classic texts on racing: Picking Winners (1975), The Winning Horseplayer (1983) and Beyer on Speed (1993)....
...Melvin Capital, Light Street and White Square all lost heavily when their bets against meme stocks, such as the struggling video game retailer GameStop, were pulverised by retail investors who swap trading...
...Investors in Melvin suffered significant losses. It is now our job to earn it back.”...
...The hearing held by the House financial services committee is scheduled for midday in Washington on Thursday (5pm in London)....
...Politicians wanted answers to what happened and invited those at the centre of the storm to Washington to explain....
...She had sculptures by Melvin Edwards, paintings by Howardena Pindell and Jack Whitten: the heavy hitters....
...It includes Citadel’s Ken Griffin and Melvin Capital’s Gabe Plotkin, as well as Reddit’s Steve Huffman and Robinhood’s Vlad Tenev....
...By James Politi in Washington, Eric Platt, Ortenca Aliaj, Colby Smith and Aziza Kasumov in New York and Hannah Murphy and Miles Kruppa in San Francisco...
...Vlad Tenev, the chief executive of Robinhood, apologised for his company’s role in the furore over trading in GameStop shares, as the online trading platform bore the brunt of a political grilling in Washington...
...Some hedge funds, such as Melvin Capital, were damaged by last week’s market mayhem. But other established traders profited handsomely, such as market makers....
...One of those short sellers was hedge fund Melvin Capital, which reported a 53 per cent loss last month....
...The coarsely jocular Reddit postings, many from users whose names are too impolite to print, are likely to draw the attention of regulators in Washington even if the cases prove difficult to bring, former...
...Those same tools that allowed QAnon to rally followers for insurrection, and r/WallStreetBets to cripple Melvin Capital, also enabled Hong Kong student protesters to organise against Beijing’s repression...
...Orrick has hired David Schulman as a life sciences partner in its Washington office. He joins from Dechert....
...Does running around Washington extolling the benefits of being a big oil provider, as everyone else races to change, seem like the sort of pitch that will make its case for consolidation more palatable?...
...When Bernie Melvin, a life-long San Franciscan, awoke on Wednesday the city was cast in an apocalyptic orange glow....
...He “didn’t particularly want” the job, recalls one of them, Jim Melvin, a former mayor of Mr DeJoy’s hometown of Greensboro....
...June 19 1976; Melvin Laird, former defence secretary, Washington, DC, June 8 1976; Jerry Brown, governor of California, Sacramento, California, March 20 1976; George HW Bush, director, CIA, Langley, Virginia...
...Mr Melvin, who spent more than a decade as a foreign exchange specialist, managing money for institutional investors at Barclays Global Investors, which was bought in by BlackRock before returning to academia...
...Several Obama-era appointees who remain in post at the top of some leading Washington agencies had fought against removing the designation....
...Janet Yellen has defended her vote to free AIG from “too big to fail” regulation even as other top Washington officials questioned the legality of the process....
...to the idea of removing the Sifi label (Martin Gruenberg, chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and Richard Cordray, director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau) while another (Melvin...
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