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...Results: Target and Palo Alto Networks report. Five more top stories 1....
...The activist hedge fund run by Jeff Smith argued at a conference yesterday that News Corp’s stock market valuation “does not make sense” and called for a spin-off of its online property listings division...
...Marine and energy asset owner Atlas Corp has accepted an $11bn take-private offer from Poseidon Acquisition Corp, the investment vehicle backed by Atlas’s chair David Sokol....
...“This report is the first of its kind,” said David Blood, who co-founded Generation Investment Management with former US vice-president Al Gore (pictured with Blood)....
...Six months later, has he paid off his debt and cut up his cards, did he buy a property, and are he and his wife still talking openly about money?...
...But the battle between the White House and Beijing reached new heights when the US president decided to go after the popular Chinese-owned video app TikTok....
...And, as lockdown measures are softened, the return of the likes of Gregg's, Starbucks et al to the UK FtG market will increase competition....
...“What you’re seeing is an expectation of a V-shaped recovery and that may prove to be too optimistic,” said one equity analyst....
...(FT) Record London property sale Property magnate Cheung Chung-kiu, whose company owns the “Cheesegrater” skyscraper, will buy a Knightsbridge mansion for more than £200m, a house price record....
...Prince Abdullah Bin Mosaad Bin Abdulaziz al-Saud, a grandson of the late King Abdulaziz, has been locked in a dispute over the Yorkshire club’s ownership with Kevin McCabe, an English property developer...
...Piecing together filings from the UK’s Companies House and Land Registry, the FT’s Rob Smith and Michael Pooler showed that Wyelands paid £64m for a block of commercial property on Maddox Street in Mayfair...
...in new investment....
...US military and diplomatic officials were expecting strikes on a handful of radar and missile sites after the president gathered top national security officials and congressional leaders at the White House...
...Follow the FT’s Peak Property series on how cheap money has stoked a property boom — and whether we are on the verge of another crash....
...“Amazon” Cuomo et al will hope not. In Wisconsin, considerable effort was expended to woo Foxconn — a Taiwan-based company which makes, among other things, roughly half of the world’s iPhones....
...(FT, Al Jazeera) Krispy Kreme owner admits to Nazi past The Reimann family, whose investment firm JAB Holdings owns consumer brands including Pret A Manger and Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, has admitted its businesses...
...It was the latest in a series of deals to support top-end commercial property developments by Freddie Mac and its counterpart Fannie Mae, the twin pillars of US mortgage finance....
...Britain has had the video boom, The Crying Game, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Harry Potter, tax breaks, National Lottery investment, a huge upsurge in British-based visual effects and post-production houses...
...Take the case of Al Pacino. He has been at the top of his chosen field for so long that it’s hard to imagine an alternative history in which he did not succeed as an actor....
...al (2014)....
...That’s the bullish and somewhat unorthodox view of Jan Dehn of $70bn investment house Ashmore....
...Savoy in London, the Plaza in New York and the George V, Paris....
...“Previously, people equated urbanisation to more housing, more investment,” says Peng Wensheng, chief economist of investment bank China International Capital Corp....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...Abrahamson et al find evidence that “strategic pricing” (implicit collusion) is as strong as ever in the US IPO market....
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