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...News round-up Biden administration warns of lengthy disruption at Baltimore port (FT) Commuting is back — but not as we knew it (FT) Disney settles lawsuit in Florida theme-park dispute (FT) Amazon writes...
...The deal highlights private equity’s continuing interest in high-street food chains despite a mixed record in the space....
...Last week, the company said it would double its spending on its theme parks to $60bn over the next decade....
...The velvety Casa Cruz, a London expat that last year took up residence on 61st Street, begins at $250,000....
...What started with a few vehicles circling Golden Gate Park with safety drivers has expanded this year into hundreds of completely empty vehicles across multiple neighbourhoods....
...A wrought-iron door guards the address near Central Park where Guzel Ganieva lives on the upper floors of a townhouse dating from the Gilded Age....
...Last year, General Atlantic bought Tripp Smith’s credit firm Iron Park as it decided to push into debt-based investments....
...Until recently, the assumption across Hollywood and Wall Street was that Disney would buy out Comcast’s Hulu stake next year....
...Despite that strategy not panning out so well, partner Chris Dixon isn’t giving up, the Wall Street Journal reports....
...But picture, from Echo Park to Victoria Park, the truest urban villages. How many are car-less? We have, remember, lived through more than one kind of “energy crisis” in recent years....
...Disney’s theme park business is also recovering strongly despite the closure of parks in China, analysts said....
...Beaches, mountains, parks....
...Izzy Englander’s Millennium Management increased its investments in blank-cheque companies almost six-fold last year as hedge funds poured tens of billions of dollars into Wall Street’s hottest investment...
...The 130,000 tickets for Adele’s two headline appearances at BST Hyde Park were snapped up within moments of being released....
...This nine-part HBO series largely centres on a battle between factions camped in facing houses on East 61st Street....
...Here at The Week Ahead, we are keen followers of what goes up as well as down and this week we have both: Tuesday is the 61st anniversary of Yuri Gagarin becoming the first man in space, or Cosmonautics...
...Jurassic Park The UK stock market is struggling to attract tech listings. It must boost valuations and shake its dinosaur image, or risk extinction, Lex writes....
...The research park’s own website says Alder is “a research laboratory focused on mycelium”....
...Instead, the hunt for an owner shines a light on the opaque, convoluted ownership structures that have helped make UK property a preferred destination for the global wealthy to park their millions (or billions...
...For most of his years as Apollo Global Management chief executive, Leon Black worked from a sprawling Manhattan office that offered breathtaking views of Central Park....
...However, they have already captured the attention of Wall Street....
...Afterwards, I’m standing in the church car park waiting for a friend to come and collect me, when a retired couple, John and Rita DePasquale, strike up a conversation....
...Sounding every bit the experienced theme parks boss, Colglazier laid out his plan for the company in an interview with the Financial Times last week....
...The Wall Street Journal reports laptop and printer prices are on the increase and smartphones will be next....
...The reopening of the US economy from the pandemic is setting up a contest between the most powerful investment firms on Wall Street....
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