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...Read more of the letter from the so-called Oracle of Omaha....
...trades (FT) Golden Goose: polished valuation aims to capitalise on derelict chic (FT) MPs call for national security check of Telegraph deal (FT)...
...“We’re working to make sure other partners follow our lead,” Jake Sullivan, the US national security adviser, told reporters this week....
...We are at the end of a run of earnings from the world’s biggest banks and technology companies....
...and Social Security Research....
...Under the act, the government has the power to block or unwind transactions it believes may pose a risk to Britain’s national security....
...region in the last quarter-century — but on Friday, which usually hosts an annual protest, none are expected during Xi’s visit after democracy activists were warned by national security officials to stay...
...The order alleged that she violated securities laws when she consulted on confidential NSE decisions with a person she claimed was her spiritual adviser, who she first met on the banks of the Ganges....
...The Japanese bank’s analysts point to China’s road freight index, a closely watched gauge of economic activity, down almost 20 per cent year on year, and sales volume of new homes slumping nearly a third...
...Some of this still goes on, he says. Austin agrees, calling his industry’s recent history “a wild west”, when people routinely hacked bank accounts and offered bribes....
...concerns over global food security....
...MacDougall says that “Wealthy Russians may prefer to keep their wealth in real transportable assets instead of in bank accounts.”...
...The humiliation of his own oligarchs, and before that his own National Security Council in these televised meetings were extraordinary....
...The EU tensions with Austria have also come as Vienna negotiates with Russia to purchase 1m doses of its Sputnik V vaccine by April....
...Given the Biden administration’s touchiness about gasoline prices, it seems plausible that Jake Sullivan, Biden’s national security adviser, will mention crude markets when he meets with Mohammed bin Salman...
...The EU financial services commissioner is due to meet Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey on Monday....
...Soviet state lender that had ties to the security services....
...At the same time, a new generation is testing the limits of markets, assembling to attack established interests and questioning the viability of national currencies....
...(FT) The day ahead Monetary policy Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas president Robert Kaplan is expected to moderate a conversation on national and global economic issues for a virtual Global Perspectives...
...China’s imposition of a controversial national security law and the resultant US sanctions on 11 Hong Kong officials were again highlighted in the earnings statement as significant risks to its operations...
...Separately, Department of Justice attorneys said in a court filing that they had begun to review whether TikTok, the Chinese-owned video app, was a threat to national security as the Trump administration...
...The negotiations could lead to a meeting of Antony Blinken, secretary of state, and Jake Sullivan, national security adviser, with their Chinese counterparts — possibly in Alaska....
...(FT) Trump security adviser says Biden appears to have won Robert O’Brien, Donald Trump’s national security adviser, said it “obviously” looked as though Joe Biden had won the US election....
...The bank on Monday pointed to the risk of being caught between the two powers after Beijing introduced a controversial national security law in Hong Kong....
...(FT) Italy turns to Draghi Italy’s president is expected to ask Mario Draghi, former president of the European Central Bank, to begin talks to form a new national unity government....
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