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...Kate Barker, pension trustee at BCSSS: The UK likely to lag other economies — productivity growth seems unlikely to pick up....
...S&P Global’s $44bn deal for IHS Markit illustrates how a handful of predominantly-US companies are beginning to tighten their grip....
...The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has ruled that it will only allow cruise liner employees to disembark if the companies guarantee to charter private flights to return them home and that...
...Last summer, as Apple’s value rose above $1tr for the first time, Mr Cook was paid out a tranche of 280,000 shares under the plan....
...It may be a depressing exercise, but with emissions continuing to rise, investors would do well to pay attention and plan for the worst....
...Mrs Clinton has not offered specific plans for dealing with offshore cash....
...In our special report on Corporate Longevity today, Richard Waters writes about how Jobs saw the potential of the graphical user interface on a visit in 1979 to Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center, when Xerox...
...Cisco had announced plans for a similar joint venture with a different company in 2012, but the deal was called off amid the chill that followed the Snowden revelations....
...In the spring of 2013, Jobs’s successor as CEO of Apple Inc., Tim Cook, decided the company needed to borrow $17 billion. Yes, borrow....
...for each metal....
...Additional reporting by Richard Waters...
...Earlier in the morning, Tim Cook, Apple chief executive, revealed plans for the company to return some of its manufacturing to the US....
...Mr Cook also did not dash investor hopes for another 2-for-1 stock split – which would be the first since 2005, saying it is “ something that we continue to look at”....
...company treating precision engineering components, Cook & Knight Metallurgical Processors Ltd....
...“Some would argue that the liver transplant is the fix and is good news,” said Kirk Hanson, executive director of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University....
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...“An economic downturn would probably reinforce what is almost certainly going to be another good year for congressional Democrats,” says Charlie Cook, a Washington political analyst....
...Mr Buffett will now join Mr Gates and his wife as a trustee of the foundation....
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