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...New York hedge fund Elliott Management is best known for hardball tactics that have seen it take on governments and large corporations....
...Farrell and Newman tell the tale of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC), caught in the sticky web of the US Department of Justice in a 2012 money laundering case....
...The bigger question is how far nostalgia for the “good old days” of social media, repackaged and resold by a huge corporation, can take Threads....
...EM: Je ne sais pas, je dois pouvoir vous dire « Je ne sais pas. ». Nous sommes aujourd’hui, nous avons pris le premier choc....
...“Oil is the most emotional market I know of, and expectations were very high for a supply deficit in the fourth quarter,” said Thibaut Remoundos, chief executive of the Commodities Trading Corporation....
...In Ethiopia, Huajian from China and New Wing from Hong Kong were attracted by the country’s high-grade leather, the researchers at SAIS found....
...They find identity partly in opposing today’s big-spending winners, who can seem more like corporations than like clubs. Losing against a big club can feel like proof of moral superiority....
...interviewed 38 women chiefs, and 19 former female chiefs, among them Sheri McCoy, of Avon Products, Meg Whitman, of Hewlett-Packard, Anne Mulcahy and Ursula Burns, both former chairmen and chiefs of Xerox Corporation...
...Second, the use of anonymous shell corporations makes it increasingly hard to identify the beneficial owners of the wealth held offshore....
...The South African government gave local corporations permission to list overseas in the belief that access to a deeper capital pool would help them grow....
...Other deals have also struggled in syndication, including private equity firm Apollo’s takeover of OM Group and generic-drug maker Lannett’s purchase of a rival....
...While the leading funds – for example, the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, the Kuwait Investment Authority, Abu Dhabi’s Mubadala Development Company, the Qatar Investment Authority and the Investment Corporation...
...The first character in the Chinese words for Serbia and Serbian is pronounced sai. It translates as ‘place of strategic importance’....
...“The future rulers will be MBAs in the form of large corporations and you are in the right place.”...
...“Investment in private equity has not increased since new guidelines were introduced,” says Evans Osano, a Nairobi-based securities specialist at the Washington-based International Finance Corporation....
...Deng wanted to stir China out of the political, social and economic slump it entered after 1989’s pro-democracy protests were crushed....
...The Indian government’s divestment policy is also in full swing and having an effect on IPOs, with stake sales from companies such as Steel Authority of India and National Thermal Power Corporation bringing...
...Most are issued by US corporations; but many foreign companies raise capital in this market. Regulatory changes are introducing new risks and opportunities....
...The waning power of equity ownership The fact that little capital is needed by corporations deprives the institutions of their main weapon for enforcing good governance....
...With R1,000bn ($145bn) under management the state-owned Public Investment Corporation plays a pivotal role in the South African investment world....
...www.insead.edu www.sais-jhu.edu...
...Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation was named as a possible predator at a price of about 350p per share, which would value the group at £5.6bn....
Female economists urged to apply for Andrew Sentance’s seat
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