Hints and tips:
...Last year, it closed its flagship Asia V buyout fund after raising $7.1bn, eclipsing its targets....
...It’s his Justice Department and it’s his attorney-general....
...Thiel’s venture firm, Founders Fund, put in $400mn, its single largest cash investment into any company. General Catalyst eventually decided to invest, too, handing over $30mn in 2019....
...As we have covered before, companies like things to be zero-rated. Before we get into it, engage your favoured extremely American podcast bro voice: Hold up, y’all — what’s a flapjack?...
...Elsewhere, CNUC and China General Nuclear Power Group own stakes in uranium mines in Niger and Namibia, as does Russia’s Rosatom....
...It has also led to “general anxiety” within the arts sector regarding sources of funding and ensuring they are ethical, she adds....
...Last year was already a “year of adjustment” for the spirit following record export years in 2021 and 2022, according to Raphaël Delpech, BNIC director-general....
...It had already published a set of standards called ISAE 3000, which provided broad standards for assurance of non-financial reporting in general....
...Such fears are now being compounded by the spectre of a second Donald Trump presidency — and a new era of American isolationism that could presage....
...His brother was once asked why, in contrast, he spoke like an American. “Because I’m the one who listens” was the tart response....
...The IMF’s financing assurances policy took this form in the early 1980s at the commencement of the Latin American debt crisis....
...It is calling (alleged) bullshit on the crypto platform’s assurances that it doesn’t market to or trade with Americans: Since the launch of its platform in 2017, Binance has taken a calculated, phased approach...
...I remember when the Supreme Court was just about to overturn the Roe v Wade abortion ruling in 2022. I spoke to the CEO of a large American business....
...That’s Ford, General Motors and Stellantis....
...Millions of American shoppers who picked them up off the shelf at Costco became more familiar with BYD’s circular logo as a medical brand than as a car company....
...Holland and Sons, Whytock and Reid, Hampton and Sons and Cornelius V Smith are also good names to type into your search browser....
...In the US, companies owned by private equity made up about 6.5 per cent of gross domestic product in 2022, according to the American Investment Council, a private equity lobby group....
...[MUSIC PLAYING] With a general election around the corner....
...General Motors chief executive Mary Barra, the daughter of a union machinist, comes from a family that has collectively spent more than 80 years working at the company....
...As ever, drop me a note at sid.v@ft.com if you’ve got thoughts and ideas for upcoming Future of Money newsletters....
...This includes some all-American names such as Fidelity, BlackRock, KKR, General Atlantic and Sequoia. So will those American groups lobby in TikTok’s favour in DC? It is not clear....
...American-built M1 Abrams tanks, which are being supplied directly by the manufacturer General Dynamics, are unlikely to be delivered before 2024....
...As Luisa Santos, deputy director-general of BusinessEurope, which represents companies across the EU, told the FT: “Our most important trading partner decides things in their own interest . . ....
...Ukraine deserves assurances that this is indeed the future that awaits.”...
...Among those driving hardest for such a change are the world’s largest carmakers — BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Ford, General Motors, Volkswagen and Tesla have signed on to the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance...
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