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...Additional reporting by Jamie Smyth in New York...
...The FT broke the news this week that a new vehicle created by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund is putting $100mn into the US-based Professional Fighters League....
...In New York, he was in a similar situation....
...But the Italian city-state didn’t have the funds to send a navy to rescue its imprisoned citizens....
...The property was taken over by Ian Schrager, co-founder of Studio 54 in New York; the little TV monitors in every elevator confirmed the sense that it was a place to be seen, as much as to see....
...Alibaba will ‘strive’ to keep New York listing The Chinese tech group said today it would “strive” to keep the company’s New York listing after the US Securities and Exchange Commission said on Friday it...
...Kate Barker: You should have defined some of the above variables better!...
...MPs on how to fire up the economy....
...Loie Hollowell, a New-York based artist, was surprised when she loaded up her brush with it. “You could feel it — it was very gritty. I had to figure out how to work with it.”...
...Hannah Kuchler in New York 60....
...Meanwhile, the next city to watch is New York: its leaders hope to launch big flood defences too, partly funded with green bonds and loans....
...(WSJ) Shrinking cities Global cities may be deeply plugged into the world economy, but that no longer guarantees population growth: Paris and New York are shrinking, while London is only sustained by births...
...Over in France, Emmanuel Macron’s environment minister is under fire for alleged misuse of public funds on lavish dinners and apartment renovations....
...Its new $8bn global growth fund will attempt to compete with the deep pockets of other investors, notably SoftBank’s Vision Fund....
...The scars endure in cities such as New York, whose train tunnels were corroded with brine....
...The continued — slow — transition to universal credit will create new difficulties for some too, reflecting the fact that the “simple” system too often fails to meet the variable needs of users’ real lives...
...So a lot hinges on how quickly — and indeed how well — the government allocates the much-needed funds announced to boost business productivity in the Budget and the [government’s new] industrial strategy...
...Uber introduced price competition into New York City taxi market, for example, and also introduced price/service discrimination through surge pricing/user ratings....
...The five New York city pension funds, managing almost $160bn, appear to have just noticed quite how much they pay in fees to money managers, and the number of elderly teachers, fire fighters, police and...
...This is not a new tactic. Al-Qaeda’s 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington were conceived within a similar logic, spelt out by Osama bin Laden....
...We’re funding the new Royce Institute in Manchester, and new agri-tech centres in Shropshire, York, Bedfordshire and Edinburgh....
...Indeed, at the time of going to press, Koenig and Klitschko were planning to visit New York and Washington to raise money for an investment fund focused on the capital’s urban projects....
...“My focus is on the numbers and to have the city operating and providing adequate services to its citizens and addressing pension fund obligations,” Mr Orr said during a recent trip to New York....
...Mr Hempton visited Chicago and New York, and was surprised to find that prosperous city dwellers don’t do their own washing and ironing. It’s very cheap to have someone else do it for you....
...York, causing a temporary halt to trading....
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