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...Meanwhile, real estate developers and investors have latched on to life sciences as the rise of working from home threatens financial returns from their office holdings....
...Of these, the bulk was done by just two companies: Quest Diagnostics and Laboratory Corporation of America....
...in Latin America....
...Qubits v bytes: how quantum computing works Quantum computing taps into the quirky behaviour of sub-atomic particles, which bend our normal understanding of physics....
...Thanks to a series of court rulings since the mid-2000s, such as eBay v MercExchange in 2007, Mayo Collaborative Services v Prometheus Laboratories in 2012 and Alice Corp v CLS Bank in 2014, and the subsequent...
...Other poor investments in TPG V include Washington Mutual, and the former TXU, now renamed Energy Future Holdings, the largest buyout ever, which filed for bankruptcy protection in April....
...On Monday, The Laboratory Corporation of America (LabCorp), best known as a provider of blood and other medical testing, announced plans to buy Covance for $6bn, mostly in cash and the rest in shares....
...That is Act V, and we are not there yet. For now we are still very definitely in the age of hydrocarbons....
...In at least one case, SEC v....
...Voxx International Corporation shares rose 3.7 per cent to $14.47....
...Elan Corporation, the Irish drugmaker that last week put itself up for sale in order to fend off a hostile bid from Royalty Pharma, climbed 4.2 per cent to €10.53 on talk that US rival Forest Laboratories...
...That helped Quest’s rival Laboratory Corporation of America rise 1.2 per cent to $84.07....
...Keller at BarCap says the bank is gambling that the European Central Bank’s offer of liquidity will encourage European banks to roll over loans to Turkish banks and corporations and supply a big chunck of...
...“This fund is a good start, a step in the right direction to bring confidence back to the market,” said V Shankar, Standard Chartered’s chief executive for Europe, Middle East, Africa and the Americas....
...‘Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970-1990’, V&A Museum, London, September 24-January 15, www.vam.ac.uk Exhibition supported by Friends of the V&A with further support from Barclays Wealth...
...Ms Baldry, who succeeds Sir David Cooksey, will dip into her regeneration and development experience as the former chairman of the London Thames Gateway Development Corporation....
...In deal news, Walt Disneyhas sold film studio Miramax to Filmyard Holdings for more than $660m, ending months of talks between the media group and bidders. Disney shares fell 0.1 per cent to $33.69....
...Shareholder primacy, the idea that a corporation’s role is to maximise shareholder wealth above all else, has its roots in a 1919 Michigan Supreme Court case, Dodge v. Ford Motor Co....
...The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation has appointed Bridget O’Connor, a former head of technology at Lehman Brothers, as chief technology officer....
...Colin Banfield, head of Asia-Pacific M&A for Lehman Brothers, said the acquisition of a $14bn stake in Rio Tinto by a China-led consortium highlighted the ability of the region’s corporations to play a leading...
...HKEx closed 0.9 per cent higher at HK$116.00, partly reversing Wednesday’s fall of 2.3 per cent. Aluminum Corporation of China, or Chalco, rose by 2.5 per cent to HK$9.16....
...ICICI’s managing director, K V Kamath, called the rumours “baseless and malicious”....
...Opportunities, he says, include the “sweet spot” of “orphan” drugs – products whose total global demand is too small to justify the huge cost base of big pharma....
...Kindler, Chairman and CEO, Pfizer Inc., USA Klaus Kleinfeld, President and CEO, Siemens AG, Germany Mustafa V....
...Kingdom Holding also owns the Hotel George V, Paris, and has real estate and banking interests across the world....
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