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...Richard Oakley, associate director of research and innovation at the UK’s Alzheimer’s Society, said the study was a “hugely welcome step in the right direction” because it appeared to be as accurate as the...
...The value of short positions against Argentine bonds lent by international custodian banks is currently $41mn, a sharp increase from $25mn ahead the mid-August vote, according to data from S&P Global Market...
...HR positions are now more likely to be considered part of the “C-suite” than five years ago....
...The group recorded $1.4bn in net income in the second quarter, a rise of 27 per cent over the same period last year, buoyed by the recovery in the benchmark S&P 500 index....
...By June next year, S&P Global is predicting the US default rate will rise to 4.5 per cent, up from 1.7 per cent at the start of 2023....
...The technology has become a potential menace because of both its awesome power and its uncontrollability, argues Richard Waters....
...Campaigners and politicians have also called for curbs on executive pay as the gulf widens between the C-suite and lower level employees....
...The S&P 500 is often used as the default comparison because of its ubiquity, but, in reality, it’s a poor benchmark for private equity returns given how top-heavy it is....
...Pursued Economy: Understanding and Overcoming the Challenging New Realities for Advanced Economies by Richard C Koo (Wiley) Koo has been the most original thinker in macroeconomics of the past two decades...
...Berkshire, which is the largest component in the S&P 500 value index, has fallen 6 per cent in 2022, far outperforming the 17 per cent decline in the benchmark S&P 500....
...Long an associate artist of the Royal Shakespeare Company, Andoh was this year tipped to succeed Gregory Doran as artistic director. So what came of it? “The conversations were had,” she says....
...That bifurcation is evident as “luxury, in general, is doing really well”, said Jessica Ramírez, senior research analyst at Jane Hali & Associates....
...Monday EU, December retail sales figures Germany, December factory orders UK, S&P Global/Cips construction purchasing managers’ index (PMI) data Results: Activision Blizzard Q4, Anima FY, JFE Holdings...
...The purchase price of C$43 per Turquoise Hill share is a 67 per cent premium from the day before the initial offer was made....
...Adam Abbas, the co-head of fixed income at Harris Associates, said markets were “effectively” closed for triple-C rated companies looking to raise debt, raising the spectre of “a natural default cycle”....
...It is a clearout that mirrors the CEO turnover after the 2008 financial crisis, according to Luke Meynell of executive search company Russell Reynolds Associates....
...Elon Musk, arguably this era’s most prominent capitalist, last week labelled ESG a “scam” after Tesla, his pioneering electric carmaker, was removed from S&P’s ESG index....
...Richard Portes: We may have an Arctic cold wave then . . ....
...In September, one particular deal caught the market’s attention: a triple C rated loan from software company BMC that priced with a yield of just 6.3 per cent....
...Spend a few years in the C-suite of a megabank, however incompetently, and your grandchildren will never have to do a day of work....
...Sampo should be a “dividend-focused P&C [property & casualty] insurer with no material M&A ambitions outside the Nordics until the Hastings deal proves successful”, Elliott said....
...this article: Job sharing is one route to gender equality in C-suite / From Mary McCarthy, Dublin, Ireland...
...struggled to convince members from the banking sector to end financing for the oil and gas sector this year — as required under the International Energy Agency’s pathway for limiting global warming to 1.5°C....
...George Shultz, who has died at the age of 100, held a remarkable number of cabinet posts under presidents Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan, culminating in his six and a half years as secretary of state under...
...The fund will invest in the stocks being most talked up on social media and appropriately enough, the company most likely to be sent “to the moon” by the new ETF is Virgin Galactic, Richard Branson’s space...
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