Hints and tips:
...There’s no question private equity dealmaking will rebound, if for no other reason than the ungodly amount of money that can still be made if it is done right....
...Totality of the market from the investor side does no maturity transformation, has no access to the Fed window, does not benefit from U.S. government guarantee....
...About 270,000 people applied for the 8,000 openings advertised that year. Ganieva bypassed most of Goldman’s rigorous interview process....
...In other words, 2.77bn of the world’s population of 8.2bn will shop online. The US is probably the most mature ecommerce market, with 70 per cent of adults shopping online in 2018....
...could not be changed, from the finishes in the bathrooms to the location of the hotel’s restaurant....
...activist campaign Engine No 1 ran against ExxonMobil, Shell’s US rival....
...money, no wonder Google wants to appeal....
...During the year it reversed a fall in paying members, which edged up by 8,000 to 3.2m....
...Apollo’s shares have fallen 8.5 per cent since the scale of Mr Black’s payments to Mr Epstein became public earlier this month....
...He now runs a chain of pizza restaurants....
...No posing, no posturing and willing to take a long view of politics – maybe not long enough, but a long view of politics.”...
...“If there is no QE3 this week, investors will be disappointed and markets will turn negative....
...Interest has been expressed by LVMH, the Malaysian government’s investment fund Khazanah Nasional Berhad, Qatar Holding LLC and China’s HNA Group, but no deal has yet been sealed....
...“I’m very curious to see what happens with the remaining units because personally I have no idea who’s going to buy this stuff.”...
...Never a big spender, he immediately rushed to his local Benihana, the chain of Japanese restaurants....
...Noma Cookbook: Time and Place in Nordic Cuisine, by René Redzepi, Phaidon RRP£35 Redzepi’s Copenhagen restaurant, Noma, soared to the top of the San Pellegrino 50 Best Restaurants league this year....
...One of the joys of moving to a new city is that you have no ingrained prejudices about where to live....
...York, which he has referred to as the “Harvard School of Show Business – only better: no grades, no exams, a small stipend and great placement opportunities”....
...While the Russian government has run a huge budget deficit of 8.3 per cent of GDP in an effort to stimulate the economy, the majority of those funds are scheduled to land later this year....
...Circle Headquarters, London First you see it…no Northern Rock jokes please....
...Following a €488m dividend recap in February this year, leverage touched 4.8 times, an increase of just 0.2 times the 2005 figure....
...“I was watching the news … and I heard nothing from the Democrats,” said Dez Jackson, 20, a cashier in Greenville, S.C., who was sharply critical of the president in the survey....
...From Bank of America looking at Barclays (£36.4bn) to Deutsche Bank dancing around LloydsTSB (£26.3bn), there is no shortage of putative combinations....
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