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...The Bank of Mexico’s lowering of interest rates last week was the 800th rate cut around the world since the collapse of Lehman Brothers, according to Bank of America....
...Business groups and think-tanks are making a mistake to cast Uber v London as a totemic fight to preserve capitalism....
...retro-futuristic V-shaped gate....
...They will get discounts on goods from Berkshire’s companies, from Nebraska Furniture Mart to Borsheims Fine Jewelry. They will see old friends....
...Among the companies excluded are groups such as Airbus, Boeing, Japan Tobacco, Rio Tinto and Wal Mart....
...Nomura boldly snapped up the European and Asian arms of the defunct Lehman Brothers — and bemoaned the painful fallout for the next seven years....
...Lehman Brothers Ltd, which has about £400m cash, was the target of a £10bn claim by LBIE in 2014....
...In Salman’s case, his brother-in-law, Maher Kara, who worked in Citigroup’s investment banking arm, disclosed word of planned merger deals to his older brother, Mounir....
...The Koch brothers have pointedly refused to back Mr Trump, in part due to the businessman’s protectionist trade rhetoric....
...That is Act V, and we are not there yet. For now we are still very definitely in the age of hydrocarbons....
...In the 1919 US court case of Dodge v Ford, the Michigan court ruled that the purpose of a business is to return profits to shareholders....
...John’s elder brother Craig was to lead the combined company instead....
...(WSJ) The SEC “is seeking up to $750 million in sanctions from Texas entrepreneur Sam Wyly and the estate of his deceased brother, Charles Wyly....
...With access to many products including Coke cut off, they made their own cola – called Kola Real in Peru – in their back yard and sold it in empty beer bottles....
...Trilantic V North America is the company’s first fund after rising from the ashes of Lehman’s merchant banking unit four years ago....
...He describes the experience as a fast-track management course, including the tricky issue of family relations....
...However, when he paid $700m for preferred shares in Salomon Brothers just before the stock market crashed in 1987, it was Berkshire’s largest ever investment....
...Now let’s suppose that in the US, the chairman of Wal-Mart could become the chairman of Procter & Gamble. That would be an obvious case of conflict of interest and there would be no denying it....
...I put a V-necked Federer T (£25; his clothes are even blander than his interviews, I’m afraid – except the grey and pink polyester polo shirt, £48, which is candidly hideous) over a Borg T-shirt (£30), just...
...Sony settled a six-year-old case last year, agreeing to pay a number of artists, led by the Allman Brothers and Cheap Trick, a total of $8m....
...asked Harry Warner, one of the Warner Brothers in 1927....
...Wal-mart suit: The second largest U.S. public pension fund said on Thursday it had sued current and former executives and board members at Wal-Mart Stores Inc, alleging bribery and a cover-up in the company...
...A new version of its CR-V small SUV begins production in September, and it plans to renew its small Jazz at a later date....
...Wolf Voters disillusioned with United Russia party From elsewhere: Managing Elected Officials, The Moscow Times Why dozens of Turkish journalists are in jail, Hurriyet Daily News Exposing Burma’s Big Brother...
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