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...TPG sold a controlling stake in the talent agency CAA to Artémis, the holding company of the Pinault family, at a $7bn valuation....
...Two of Unilever’s largest investors have called for radical shake-up of the company or its board in the wake of its abortive £50bn pursuit of GlaxoSmithKline’s consumer health business....
...Investors poured $10bn into equity funds holding US stocks in the week to Wednesday, building on a 10-week inflow streak, according to data provider EPFR....
...The triumvirate began spending more time on outside pursuits....
...A US financial regulator has been defeated in its pursuit of Don Wilson, one of the world’s leading derivatives traders, in a stinging ruling by a judge who derided the agency for bringing a misbegotten...
...Mr Scaramucci will rejoin the firm as a co-managing partner, the role he had before leaving in pursuit of a job in Donald Trump’s White House....
...In the short term, investors were holding fire ahead of Friday’s release of the US government employment report — data that could influence the Fed....
...Regardless, emboldened plaintiffs lawyers are expected to ramp up their pursuit of aiding and abetting claims....
...US cable group Comcast, fresh from abandoning its pursuit of Time Warner Cable, is one potential acquirer....
...As Amazon promised to be “relentless” in its pursuit of selling everything, Bezos appears to being equally eager to make personal investments in almost every industry....
...The statement encapsulates perfectly the fund’s single-minded pursuit of deals. To a large extent, the fund’s investments have been driven by a simplistic rationale....
...With its region in persistent turmoil, Qatar’s spending in pursuit of global alliances is also an insurance policy....
...“We have a bank, we are a bank holding company,” David Viniar, chief financial officer, told analysts and investors on Tuesday. “But we’re not a retail bank....
...The mining sector, though, has a particularly poor record of holding its chief executives to account in this regard....
...Qatar Holding, the sovereign wealth fund that owns 12 per cent of Xstrata, in June upended the $70bn merger by insisting that Glencore increase its offer to 3.25 shares to secure its support....
...The JPM Whale-Watch continues: Lisa continued her pursuit of the London Whale via DTCC credit derivatives data....
...They may end up paying a high premium or struggling to control management, but their inexorable pursuit of global opportunities indicates these are risks that Japanese companies are willing to take to achieve...
...Such trading uses computer algorithms, or “algos”, to generate buy or sell orders in reaction to market data and economic statistics, in pursuit of a pre-determined trading strategy or as part of market-making...
...That Zehner and Jacobs have found great happiness in their religious faith after long careers on Wall Street makes one think about how best to get into the kingdom of heaven after an unabashed pursuit of...
...Oberthur had abandoned its three-month pursuit of De La Rue in January after a sweetened £926m takeover approach had failed to win over the banknote printer’s board....
...Glass Lewis, another shareholder advisory, was more critical of the deal in a note last week, arguing that NYSE had a “rather focused pursuit of a transaction with DB” and “limited discussion of what other...
...In their pursuit of prop traders whose performances were aided by the many advantages provided by big banks, hedge funds and less-regulated firms may eventually discover not every new hire will thrive at...
...BHP – which has failed to seal three multibillion-dollar deals in two years, spending about $900m in bid costs in the process – has said it will not give up its pursuit of strategic resources....
...Washington’s pursuit of BP to set up a $20bn (£13.5bn) fund to pay for the liabilities from the fatal explosion of Deepwater Horizon in the US Gulf of Mexico, could have important unintended consequences...
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