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...Mark Salem, chief investment officer at Mount Capital, a top-15 investor in Altice USA, said he believed in its “long-term potential”....
...This surprising trend has driven Blackstone’s recent streak of real estate dealmaking, DD’s Antoine Gara and Mark Vandevelde report....
...Yet I did find a more uplifting perspective in another recent book, The Human Swarm, by Mark Moffett. This covers the unlikely (and, at first glance, unrelated) topic of ants....
...Mark Townsend’s No Return (Faber RRP£12.99, April) is the instructive story of five jihadis whose dark trajectory towards Syria could have been prevented....
...Eric Moffett, a portfolio manager at T Rowe Price notes: “Foreign ownership of A-shares remains at low levels — hovering at just under 3% — but foreign ownership has been rising rapidly....
...From the beginning, Mr Spiegel’s fortunes have been entwined with Mark Zuckerberg’s social media giant....
...But as research firm Moffett Nathanson notes, Sprint has been outgunned by those two on capital expenditures and spectrum purchases by a steep $166bn....
...“After SoftBank passed this deal over last year, question marks arose on the decision. This should encourage sentiment that SoftBank is willing to find the right deals,” Mr Matthew said....
...This year, Google has taken the first step towards building homes directly for its own workers, with plans to put up 300 temporary apartments at Moffett Field....
...Mark Patterson, a professor at Fordham Law School, says it is “hard to draw any conclusions today about the likely treatment of media mergers based on the past”....
...Mr Dauman’s exit marks a clear victory for the 93-year-old Mr Redstone....
...The comments appear to mark a sharp U-turn in Jakarta’s stance....
...As we approach the one year mark for new chief executive Mr Claure, Sprint seems finally to have stopped the bleeding. Of subscribers, that is.”...
...Toby Moffett is a senior adviser at Mayer Brown, LLP and a leader of the firm’s Africa practice. He is a former Congressman from Connecticut. Back to beyondbrics...
...Craig Moffett, an analyst with MoffettNathanson, said Altice was paying “an insupportably high” price....
...“We still don’t know if the regulators would allow it, but it’s easier to imagine it might be allowed if Sprint were insolvent or close to it,” says Mr Moffett....
...marks a further deepening of ties between Google and one of the world’s leading aerospace research hubs, the Ames Research Center, writes Mark Odell....
...Still, Tim Höttges, Deutsche Telekom chief executive, said “The decision to invest boldly in [the US] was right on the mark.”...
...The move will take Freeport back to its roots as an energy producer and mark a major shift in strategy for the company, creating a natural resources conglomerate with a major foothold in the Gulf of Mexico...
...The deals would mark a change in strategy for Freeport, creating a natural resources conglomerate likely to be worth close to $50bn, including debt....
...When the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team was sold for $2bn last month, it set a new high water mark for the value of US sports franchises....
...The shares rose 2.7 per cent to close above the $600 mark at $601.10 for the first time in the company’s history....
...James Beresford, Visit England chief executive, and Doug Richard, the entrepreneur involved in Made, the city’s annual festival of entrepreneurialism, are also backing the launch, along with Mark Prisk,...
...Instead, Comcast added 292,000 high speed internet customers, what Bernstein Research senior analyst Craig Moffett called “by far the most important operating metric.”...
...“Legislative intervention could be the great leveller,” said Craig Moffett of Sanford Bernstein....
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