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...Texas, the leading US oil-producing state, has declared Climate Action 100+ to be anti-oil and blocked financial companies, including BlackRock, from doing business with the government....
...Fink described the mismatch between what Americans were saving and what they would need as “a problem so big and urgent that government and corporate leaders [need to] stop business as usual [and] step out...
...Builders reported an increase in the prices they charge....
...Janet Yellen is the US Treasury Secretary Janet Truncale CEO-elect by Brooke Masters Janet Truncale thinks of herself as a trust builder....
...But Adani will need to restore its investors’ confidence if it wishes to retain its position as a master builder in Modi’s India, and profit from some of this....
...Without change, shifting investor preferences could leave a company — even one as large as this — irrelevant....
...bad as well as the good times”....
...Which is just as well, because in addition to being a business, Vespa is as much of a cherished part of Italy’s cultural patrimony as the Colosseum or Sophia Loren....
...The parable of Peloton is a business school case study in the making. But first, as the new chief executive put it, the company has to “get real”....
...Peterson and Schwarzman were tickled by the idea of BlackRock as an homage to Blackstone, and blessed the new name....
...The deal will give S&P Global shareholders almost 68 per cent of the combined company....
...Google used to talk about moon shots; now other companies are doing them for real....
...However, given the presence of Help to Buy as well as a lower proportion of SME builders, the sector should be more resilient than in 2008-09....
...“We have to be around for the long term, as a business, if we’re going to be here for conservation,” says Earnshaw. This philosophy is evident in Wentworth’s 600-page master plan for the next decade....
...When Alex Gorsky, chief executive of Johnson & Johnson, spoke to a room full of business leaders last year, he described the company’s 75-year old “credo” as its “special sauce”....
...Peterson and Schwarzman worked together for 33 years, but the father-son relationship fell apart at the end. Peterson felt he had been squeezed out of his fair share of an expanding business....
...Private equity firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice has hired Sandi Peterson, the former worldwide chair of Johnson & Johnson, as an operating partner....
...Her father, a master jeweller who served his apprenticeship in Istanbul’s Grand Bazaar, taught her about the trade from an early age, and so setting up her own business in downtown LA 26 years ago seemed...
...“It is nonsense to think that you can master everything,” says Luiggino Torrigiani, Mr Renaud’s business partner in his new venture. Time and access to expertise count too....
...We do not have the bosses of all the FTSE 100 or S&P 500 companies on speed dial. But “doing a Streisand” is a sensible tactic for complaining, according to experts....
...Its power generation business in Laos, Japan and China, as well as a shale gas business in the US that was launched last year, helped raise its profit....
...The auction will include Old Master paintings as well as modern British works, such as John Craxton’s 1946 “Portrait of Lucian Freud”....
...In the spring of 2013, Jobs’s successor as CEO of Apple Inc., Tim Cook, decided the company needed to borrow $17 billion. Yes, borrow....
...Bombardier, the world’s largest builder of business jets by revenue, made a net loss of $677m in the fourth quarter of 2015, against $1.6bn for the same period in 2014, as sales fell 16 per cent to $5bn....
...Flag as Important Amazonian Europe The ecommerce giant is doing lobbying of a more indirect kind than Apple....
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