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...Sequoia’s Indian and south-east Asian business would form a third entity. The move followed months of pressure from Washington over investing in China....
...Blackstone’s real estate business has outperformed publicly traded peers — helped, executives say, by a bet on rising interest rates and a focus on fast-growing population centres in the country’s west and south...
...One good read Is South Korea disappearing?...
...Thousands of lawsuits from municipalities, school districts, tribes, parents and others were consolidated into a class action complaint heard in the federal court for the Northern District of California....
...The ubiquity of administration officials who move in and out of office reminds me of the 1976 song “Hotel California”, a meditation on what one Eagles band member described as “the dark underbelly of the...
...Sneader has spent much of the time since his 2018 appointment putting out reputational fires from Saudi Arabia to South Africa, and he has had another rough couple of weeks....
...As of Friday, Prosus, the Dutch-listed arm of South Africa’s Naspers was thought to be in pole position to acquire eBay’s classified business. It had, after all, submitted the highest cash bid....
...The founder and chief executive of financial information company Bloomberg LP has said he will not accept donations to his campaign, but has already spent almost $170m of his own money on TV and digital...
...Blackstone predicts that the level of ecommerce and food delivery in Europe will approach levels in the US and Asian countries such as China and South Korea....
...At the campaign’s Times Square office, Bloomberg LP employees, who have migrated over to the campaign side, mingle with veteran Democratic political strategists....
...There are 9 US states, including Denver and California, where it was legal for recreational use. In 2011, there were none....
...Donald Trump’s recent tax reform has added urgency because its changes have hurt high-income, high-tax states such as New York, Connecticut and California....
...Shares in Japanese and South Korean companies linked to the manufacture of iPhone screens moved lower on Monday after a report that Apple was working on a new display technology....
...The Mountain Pass rare earths mine, located about 50 miles south of Las Vegas, was owned by Molycorp, a US natural resources group that filed for bankruptcy in 2015....
...“In 2010 we financed a 15 megawatt solar plant in southern California that cost $55m to build,” says Jim Long, a partner at Greentech Capital Advisors, a global clean energy advisory firm....
...Wrecking, or looting the washed-up debris of shipwrecks, was a big industry in Cornwall in the south of England in the 19th century....
...LP Hartley said it was just two nymphomaniacs.” Apparently, he meant that in a bad way....
...Ms McCabe has moved to the California-based fund of hedge funds company from McKinsey, the consultancy....
...Tomorrow, all eyes will be on the primaries in California, New Jersey, North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and New Mexico – a night that is likely to see Hillary Clinton secure enough delegates to clinch...
...primary in California where former secretary of state Hillary Clinton will take on Vermont senator Bernie Sanders....
...(FT) Hello, I’m Johnnycashi A new species of black tarantula that lives near Folsom Prison, California, has been named after Johnny Cash. (BBC)...
...Mr Louis, who graduated from the University of California, worked at UBS for almost a decade following stints at other groups including Schroders and Goldman Sachs....
...(The Times) Contagion contained The last suspected Mers patient in South Korea wasreleased from isolation today as the country reported no additional cases of the disease for more than three weeks....
...The likes of Taiwan and South Korea are developed by many measures, while Gulf states such as Qatar are among the wealthiest countries on the planet....
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