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...Apple’s mammoth buyback programme could be one casualty. In the last fiscal year, Apple spent twice as much buying back its own shares as it did on R&D....
...Elliott, one of the best known activist hedge funds, has over the past decade transformed itself into a mammoth asset manager competing regularly with private equity giants like Apollo and Blackstone....
...This is very different from the mammoth stimulus packages China has pulled off before. After the financial crisis, it spent Rmb4tn (nearly 13 per cent of GDP back then) building out infrastructure....
...The deal may not have captivated the market earlier this year if not for the mammoth $5.5bn loan that private credit investors had pieced together, which edged out the banks that traditionally provide debt...
...Following a mammoth New York sales season that landed at the low end of expectations, the art-market mood is distinctly flat as a difficult year draws to a close....
...The figures are distorted by movements in the value of its mammoth $353bn stock portfolio, which includes stakes in Apple, American Express and Bank of America....
...It may not surprise you to learn that private equity firms in particular are mammoth fee-payers to investment banks....
...Eventually, they checked with both NIM centrally and Natixis CIB, the parent’s investment bank, in case it somehow had amassed the mammoth haul of $TESLA....
...While tighter policy has sent shockwaves through financial markets — even bludgeoning the value Berkshire’s mammoth stock portfolio — it is finally beginning to pay dividends for companies and consumers...
...However you measure it, something like half of Japan Inc trades under 1 p/b....
...Also in Paris, Sotheby’s wrapped up its mammoth auctions of 1,131 pieces of furniture and other objects from the mid-17th-century Hôtel Lambert (October 11-17)....
...It is a deal that investors believe would heap mammoth losses on underwriters....
...Berkshire’s mammoth cash and Treasury holdings were little changed from the end of March, falling less than $1bn to $105.4bn....
...Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway has made a big bet on Citigroup, as the legendary investor funnels some of the conglomerate’s mammoth cash hoard into stocks during this year’s market decline....
...Take the mammoth $22bn iShares ESG Aware MSCI USA ETF. Its top holdings are Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Tesla and Alphabet. Part of the reason for this is that ESG funds are often simply exclusionary....
...A mammoth 18-foot wide painting of red peonies by Twombly that was completed and acquired in 2007 sold for $58.9m, including fees....
...The strong results offset an expected weaker showing from the company’s mammoth stock portfolio....
...Peter Sand, chief shipping analyst at Bimco, said the data showed shipping companies would stick with mammoth vessels despite recent scrutiny over the ballooning size of ships....
...The SFO began scrutinising the company in 2017 as part of a mammoth investigation into Unaoil, which culminated last year in four convictions....
...From Monday to Friday last week, 280 experts from 70-odd countries met online to finalise parts of a mammoth new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the 33-year-old UN body that produces...
...Filling Buffett’s shoes will be a mammoth task. But here is what Abel stands to inherit — a sprawling conglomerate with an ever-growing cash pile that has ballooned to $145.4bn....
...In addition, Von der Leyen said she had opened negotiations with BioNTech and Pfizer to supply a mammoth 1.8bn additional doses of the vaccine for 2022-2023, as the bloc turns long-term to mRNA-based vaccines...
...The division has accounted for some of Berkshire’s biggest takeovers, a fact that has not been missed by shareholders who grumble about the mammoth $145.4bn cash pile the conglomerate has amassed....
...Not content with dominating the global search and search advertising market, the tech mammoth is rolling out a new version of its Google Pay app....
...The share buybacks helped put a dent in Berkshire’s mammoth cash pile, reducing it from $145.7bn at the end of September to $138.3bn by year end....
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