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...At Yale, Smith had been in the same fraternity as George W Bush, who went on to become US president in 2000, and a close friend of John Kerry, the Democrat who lost the 2004 election to Bush....
...S&P Global Ratings on Friday said it expected Hurricane Ian to result in insured losses of $30bn to $40bn....
...Churchill Capital Corp IV in February — one of eight Spacs run by former Citigroup banker Michael Klein....
...a more traditional trucking firm; airport services group Macquarie Infrastructure; and air freight and logistics company Forward Air Corp....
...As chief counsel to the Federal Aviation Administration, the regulator, and later as deputy counsel to US President George W Bush, he advised on responses to the 9/11 terror attacks on the US 20 years ago...
...Stephen Shapiro will succeed Bob Hoyt, the former general counsel of the US Department of the Treasury and a George W Bush appointee, as the new general counsel at Barclays....
...With 24% of companies having reported, earnings growth for the S&P 500 is at -16%....
...Corp bonds QE has been done before (they hold £10bn) still a potential route if credit mkts do seize up down the line....
...My own stint will be over by the time Boris Johnson, a veteran of Brussels’ press corps, attends his first summit in October....
...US steel prices jumping 68 per cent and the S&P Steel sector outperforming the S&P by 60 per cent through to July. Unfortunately, the euphoria was short-lived....
...At the close of trading in New York, the S&P 500 had fallen 1.3 per cent and the Dow Jones Industrial Average was off 1.7 per cent....
...Confidence among US households is the highest since 2000, according to the Conference Board, pushed up by the lowest rates of unemployment since the George W Bush years and rocketing stock and house prices...
...Tesla stunned attendees at what was billed as an unveiling of its move into haulage trucking by revealing a revamped Roadster, which founder Elon Musk said would be the “fastest production car ever made,...
...Nelson Peltz's Trian Partners won a board seat in 2014 and, according to S&P Capital IQ data, is BNY’s eighth biggest shareholder....
...The latest delay came as the company said lawyers were examining claims by a whistleblower that Westinghouse mishandled the S&W acquisition....
...Toshiba’s US nuclear power subsidiary Westinghouse bought S&W in 2015 under a promise of $2bn in annual revenues....
...The billionaire investor and China Investment Corp, the state-controlled fund, were part of a consortium that invested $1bn in Diamond S Shipping, an oil products tanker business, in 2011....
...Even if Toshiba addresses the goodwill on the latest S & W acquisition, it still faces rising material and labour costs to complete the two US nuclear plants, in Georgia and South Carolina....
...“The fact that the size of the assets and liabilities related to the CB & I S & W acquisition were never disclosed by Toshiba at the time of the acquisition is suspicious,” he says, highlighting the oddity...
...The deal, though small, left Toshiba with two big problems: large delays and cost overruns at two US-based nuclear projects, and a legal dispute with Chicago Bridge & Iron, S & W’s vendor, over the level...
...Wimbledon and Watson will be looking for that kind of golden social media merger of tennis and football as its matches and Euro 2016′s play out over the next few weeks....
...Six of Film4’s productions have been nominated for Oscars, including Amy, a documentary about the late singer Amy Winehouse....
...Energy stocks led the way on the benchmark S&P 500 as crude prices rallied....
...US insurers have faced the challenge of low rates before, says Professor W Jean Kwon of St John’s University in New York, pointing to the 1940s....
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