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...Disney: The US entertainment company will report its latest quarterly results as it faces a growing battle with activist investor Nelson Peltz....
...Sa’id al-Jamal”, a financier affiliated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps — Quds Force....
...AWS will buy electricity from the Susquehanna nuclear power station, which is 130km north-west of Philadelphia, under a 10-year power-purchase agreement....
...(In America it’s also called the Colorado River toad, for hopefully obvious reasons.)...
...They don’t have the resources, esprit de corps or a history to look back on.”...
...Disney: The media group’s latest quarterly earnings take on additional importance as it contends with pressure from activist investor Nelson Peltz, who is trying to force his way on to the board after building...
...Rothschild & Co has named Mark Connelly as a managing director and head of equity capital markets in North America....
...In a letter to Bill Nelson, the US space agency’s administrator, Bezos said his company would waive up to $2bn for the current and next two government fiscal years, as well as fund a demonstration mission...
...When the Iran-Contra story finally broke late in 1986, Powell had been in Germany for less than six months, now with three stars and in command of the 75,000 strong V corps, having skipped the normal intermediary...
...The three-way wiring between media, crown and public that reshaped the modern monarchy did not, in fact, begin with Elizabeth II, but with her grandfather George V....
...Benjamin Wilson, head of shareholder activism in North America at JPMorgan Chase, has left the US bank to take a senior role in the M&A department of Guggenheim Partners, Reuters reported and DD confirmed...
...For Toyota the additional boost came from North America, where its quarterly operating profit margin improved to 6.6 per cent from 3.9 per cent a year earlier as dealers in the US offered fewer incentives...
...The V&A’s London press view last week for its exhibition Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser was its first foray into virtual reality and it is one of several museums investigating whether VR could offer vital...
...“We wanted a package directed towards Americans and funnelled through airlines,” said Sarah Nelson the president of the Association of Flight Attendants....
...jonathan.guthrie@ft.com Letters in response to this column: Focus on the haystack — not on the needles / From Brendan P Geary, Washington, DC, US Active v passive: put more faith in market forces / From...
...There has also been no turnover on the board of directors at National Beverage Corp, even though billionaire CEO Nick Caporella has faced lawsuits alleging sexual misconduct (which he denies)....
...Tim Sweeney, who founded Epic in the early 1990s, has retained control of the North Carolina-based company, making him a billionaire....
...“As we look out, we think this is going to be a very difficult environment for PRB coal,” said Mr Nelson....
...Newmont says it sends gold concentrate from CC&V to a mill in Nevada because it has a high sulphur content, which provides fuel for a processing technique called roasting....
...What you might not know is that according to our estimates lower tax rates accounted for 47% of year-over-year earnings growth (2Q18 v 2Q17) in the aggregate for the S&P 500 companies analysed; that’s down...
...exploring potential sale of News America Marketing business (Reuters) Tieto scoops up Evry in $1.5bn deal to create Nordic digital consultancy (Reuters) Kellogg plans job cuts amid North America reorganisation...
...Taken together, Thursday’s results tapped into broader concerns that Silicon Valley companies are running out of room to grow, whether from saturation of their services among users in North America and Europe...
...Qubits v bytes: how quantum computing works Quantum computing taps into the quirky behaviour of sub-atomic particles, which bend our normal understanding of physics....
...Starbucks settled with Mr Robinson and Mr Nelson for an undisclosed sum after mediation before a retired federal judge....
...After mediation before a retired federal judge and what Starbucks called “constructive conversations”, the company put out a statement agreed with the two men, Donte Robinson and Rashon Nelson....
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