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...The bank, considered among the most vulnerable following last month’s crisis, haemorrhaged more than $100bn in deposits last month. Its future as a standalone business is increasingly in doubt....
...Errol mentions a scientific paper on the subject, but says sharing it would mean “all activities relying on chance will be ruined, so I am in doubt as to doing that.”...
...Twitter has pressed its stronger position by setting a Delaware trial for October....
...Increased use of special committees on deals has proven a boon to independent investment banks....
...“We have heard of a lot of US companies that were doing business with non-US banks looking at the news, and saying I want to be somewhere safer,” said Matt Burnell, large-cap US bank analyst at Wells Fargo...
...According to 2010 data from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, HSBC’s bank had a 38 per cent share of the metropolitan market, M&T was second with 30 per cent, while First Niagara had about 11 per...
...We made a proposal: if they went private at that price and if they flipped the cable business in three years would they give us a callback [give Gamco a cut of the higher price]....
...Against a background of global consolidation in the steel industry, Nippon Steel Corporation of Japan has introduced a poison pill whereby it can string out its review of a bid for 30 weeks and make a rights...
...As Allen, now a professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business, said in his 1992 lecture: “The law ‘papered over’ the conflict in our conception of the corporation by invoking a murky distinction...
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