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...Among premium services popular with middle-class Chinese consumers are free designated drivers and shared office spaces, as well as free repairs....
...(An earlier version of this story incorrectly said that DE Shaw's Composite fund had lost money.)...
...At just $5, I can’t say no....
...It took $1bn out of Staples in a $5.4bn refinancing deal. The move was seen as bold, even for an industry that routinely extracts money from the businesses it buys....
...said Lorena Gonzalez, California assemblywoman, who wrote Assembly Bill 5 (AB5), the law which the state is currently using to sue the companies....
...*An earlier version of this story incorrectly characterised the speed of downloads...
...The agreement provided that the entity would receive a bi-monthly “development service fee” of 5 million XRP and could identify additional parties that could receive XRP as incentives— provided that these...
...Citigroup is in talks to buy its London skyscraper office for about £1.2bn, as the US bank commits its long-term future to the UK despite the political and economic turmoil surrounding Brexit....
...Medical devices, however, declined 4.8 per cent to $5.9bn as elective and non-essential procedures relating to surgery, orthopaedics and other fields were pushed back to free up healthcare service capacity...
...There was mixed reaction in Washington, where lawmakers have recently condemned various countries’ digital services tax plans, arguing that they unfairly target US companies like Apple....
...Last month, the US designated five Chinese outlets as foreign diplomatic missions, prompting China to expel three Wall Street Journal reporters....
...The independent Sotheby’s board member designated by Taikang suggested the auction house could fetch close to $100 a share in a sale, according to documents filed with US securities regulators....
...Spending on pharmaceutical drugs is forecast to rise an average of 6.3 per cent a year from 2017 to 2026, according to the US government’s Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services....
...Mr Giacchi, 48, is a designated market maker, or DMM....
...Peter Giacchi, a senior designated market maker at Citadel Securities, will be up at 4am on Friday morning to take the 5.45am ferry from Belford, New Jersey, to lower Manhattan....
...Deliveroo said “as a matter of policy we do not comment on rumour or speculation”. Shares in London-listed Just Eat dropped more than 5 per cent on Friday morning....
...For instance, Sanofi’s anti-clotting drug Plavix had 83 per cent of the market for drugs of its class in 2016, but that will fall to 60 per cent by 2020, as Chinese company Shenzhen Salubris makes gains,...
...Yesterday, Purplebricks told us “ultimately we will market properties for as long as it takes to sell“....
...Japan’s Topix index was off 0.1 per cent as consumer discretionary stocks slipped 0.3 per cent and industrials dropped 0.5 per cent....
...South Korea’s state-run National Pension Service bought the Sony complex for €585m in 2010 as one of its first investments in Europe....
...The BofA research was picked up by many media groups and sparked a debate when one news outlet reported, incorrectly, that exchange traded funds accounted for more than a third of US ownership of the S&P...
...In its half year results this morning, the bank said it will pay redress to 590,000 customers after some were incorrectly charged mortgage arrears fees....
...She has already won similar lawsuits against big companies including FedEx, and some smaller ones, such as a strip club that incorrectly classified its dancers as independent contractors....
...a quick overhaul of the US tax code....
...The companies — which include Pfizer, Eli Lilly and Johnson & Johnson of the US, Roche and Novartis of Switzerland, Sanofi of France and GlaxoSmithKline of the UK among others — will work with the World...
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