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...On the upper back corner, the initials of its owner curl satisfyingly....
...As chief executive of Sixth Street, the San Francisco-based investment firm, he’s taken stakes in the likes of Real Madrid, FC Barcelona, and the National Basketball Association’s San Antonio Spurs....
...Sales of existing homes in August were down 19 per cent year-on-year, according to the National Association of Realtors....
...I’ll be in Boston next week for games 3 and 4 of the basketball classic, where the Celtics will have home-court advantage after taking the first game in San Francisco....
...Pending home sales figures for April are also due from the National Association of Realtors. Corporate earnings Chinese technology giants Alibaba and Baidu release earnings today....
...In 2020, for example, the CFA Institute, the association for investment management professionals, estimated the cost of short-termism to S&P 500 companies at $79bn a year in forgone earnings....
...A senior executive at US transport and defence infrastructure company Cubic, his San Diego office was promptly closed and all travel cancelled. “I haven’t travelled since March,” he says....
...And you don’t hear much complaining when the industry does beat the S&P, as was the case in 2018....
...That rise is among the highest of any major city, according to the S&P/Case-Shiller home price indices. Only San Francisco posted stronger numbers during the same period....
...It was closely followed by San Francisco, Phoenix and Los Angeles where home prices advanced 1.8 per cent. For a second straight month, all 20 cities in the index showed a year-on-year increase....
...of the National Cooperative Business Association....
...“When you have a red curtain, I feel at home,” he says. He also graduated with an architecture degree in 1985, and was involved in the refurbishment of the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples....
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