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...Apollo bought $2bn of AT&T preferred stock in a deal that allowed the wireless carrier to partially repay some of its outstanding preferred equity....
...And increased demand should lower the cost, given the ubiquity of straw and the fact that it was once the preferred roofing material for cottages across the UK....
...Its founders say it provides benefits including pensions, sick and holiday pay, training and health insurance....
...So far, however, all the major platforms still insist their workers are independent contractors....
...For the Li family, it comes as its preferred investment category — infrastructure — has become crowded and made it harder to generate returns....
...Through a sovereign wealth fund, Doha is one of BPY’s biggest investors, holding $1.8bn worth of BPY preferred equity....
...Andrew Smithers , founder of economic consultancy Smithers and Co A bounce is likely due to fiscal stimulus....
...Several Japanese insurance companies including the National Mutual Insurance Federation of Agricultural co-operatives, Nippon Life, Daido Life and Dai-ichi Life also hold substantial ETF investments....
...HTC, in other words, had become like any other contractor factory....
...It also pioneered micro health insurance, with many treatments provided below cost or free. 2013 Skanska, green Swedish building contractor 2014 Sweden’s Handelsbanken put the boring back into banking...
...Those clients include Midland National Life Insurance and the pension funds for the New York City Police and state employees in South Carolina....
...Earlier this month, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said heroin use had increased by 63 per cent between 2002 and 2013 across the US, especially among women, people with private insurance...
...The private equity house has emerged as the preferred bidder for the assets....
...Other holders of the preferred shares include the hedge funds Claren Road Asset Management, Blackstone’s GSO arm, Paulson & Co and Perry Capital....
...have declared bankruptcy in recent weeks and in the first four months of this year 85 such groups hung up their shovels, 60 per cent more than in the same period in 2011, according to Euler Hermes, an insurance...
...The firm had endured weeks of uncertainty after it was hit by a criminal investigation into its former chairman, the shuttering of its foreign offices, and lawsuits filed by axed staff and contractors....
...Ten days later, Washington Mutual, the US’s biggest Savings and Loans association, was seized by the US Office of Thrift Supervision and placed under the receivership of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation...
...Transocean , the deep-water driller and owner of the oil rig, lost 11.9 per cent to $50.04 and Halliburton , a contractor on the oil rig, declined 14.8 per cent to $21.15....
...The group will also issue to AIG $5.5bn of stock, $3bn of convertible notes and $2bn of preferred shares....
...Lawyers have been kept busy with a steady flow of debt recovery work, says Chris Mills of Clyde & Co, while also dealing with disputes between developers and contractors as investors try to exit agreements...
...Last week, the government agreed to convert the preferred stock it owned in Citigroup to common shares, gaining a 36 percent stake in the company and boosting its buffer against future losses....
...The buy-out house also owns Travelex, the foreign exchange provider, and Hub International, the US insurance broker....
...Thrill-seekers would have preferred a more precise catalogue of disposals, job cuts and capital restructuring, but there is merit to a nuts-and-bolts focus on growth and efficiency....
...A consortium led by Citigroup has been named the preferred bidder for Guangdong Development Bank after doubling its offer to about $3bn, putting it on the brink of becoming the first foreign-led group to...
...The insurance sector was among the strongest performers in Europe on hopes that pricing trends will stay stronger for longer....
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