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...Trafigura said the ex-employee was a former consultant to DT Group, which was a joint venture formed in 2009 by Trafigura and Cochan Holdings LLC, an investment vehicle controlled by a former military adviser...
...Dealmaking deterrents Japan’s problematic equity “cross-holdings” could hypothetically broker a $20bn takeover “for free”, the FT’s Leo Lewis explains. But the country is only ripe for M&A in theory....
...Giphy meets its ‘boomer’ fate In addition to holding the rights to this widely recognised meme, Shutterstock has now picked up a whole trove of lowbrow internet humour....
...His private investment vehicle will have the right to appoint the chief executive indefinitely, despite only holding a 14 per cent stake....
...Now Firebird has found itself on the back foot, working to mark down its Russian holdings....
...An 1859 poster advertising the project compared its height favourably to St Paul’s in London, St Peter’s in Rome and the Great Pyramid in Egypt....
...During the Trump administration, Mike Pompeo, then secretary of state, said the virus may have escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology....
...The brothers own a wide portfolio of assets through their eponymous holding company....
...Banking analyst veteran Mike Mayo and Steve Eckhaus, a partner at McDermott Will & Emery, believe they can change that in a legal fight for an unpaid bonus to Mayo....
...Another well-known investment house — Soros Fund Management — has been topping up its bank holdings....
...Discover FT Globetrotter’s latest city guide: Rome....
...Donato Paolo Mancini in Rome 73....
...The story, reported by Miles from Rome this week, has raised many fresh questions about a far from standard situation....
...Mike Corbat, chief executive of Citigroup, says the US lender is in “daily contact” with the White House and regulators, “relaying information . . ....
...Job moves DD scoop: Mauricio Leyva is set to quit as chief executive of Grupo Lala, the dominant Mexican dairy company, to join privately held JAB Holding to advise the acquisitive German investment group...
...In the US, secretary of state Mike Pompeo has accused China of destroying early Covid-19 samples to cover up the origins of the virus....
...There is a sense that this week’s rush for long-dated bonds reflected portfolios and pension funds rebalancing their holdings before the end of August and as the dust settles, yields should stabilise and...
...For now the consumer is holding up, so all eyes rest on the jobs market. Earlier on Wednesday, the news on private-sector hiring via ADP was mixed....
...Portfolios with a mix of stocks and long-dated government paper are holding up well so far in 2019....
...I then moved out to California to work for Mike Milken, who also went to jail.”...
...Some are not sure this state can prevail, but rather than bond yields, perhaps the euro will bear the brunt of a showdown between Rome and Brussels....
...That is without mentioning the “temporal poverty” with which many parents holding several part-time jobs must daily grapple....
...But there has been a pronounced shift in the foreign holdings of other central banks, away from eurozone bonds in favour of Germany....
...The lease was signed by a company named BSREP III Nero LLC, a possible allusion to the emperor who was blamed for the burning of Rome....
...While Moody’s action was anticipated, Rome’s defiant tone may rattle markets, analysts say....
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