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...Blue Owl, Ares, Oak Hill, HPS Investment Partners, Oaktree and Elliott Management were among the investors that agreed to lend the $4.8bn this week....
...Amador, in the Sierra above Sacramento, is home to a mere 200 souls....
...The impending blank-cheque deal for Lanvin Group, the fashion arm of Chinese conglomerate Fosun International, offers a bonus pot of 3.6mn shares that will be split among nonredeeming shareholders....
...Miles driven: 3,112. CO2 equivalent burnt: 1.24 tonnes....
...In Thousand Oaks — a neighbourhood that looks practically the same, though it is thousands of miles away, in California — is Amerihome, a company started by Mr Furash, which has used Apollo’s firepower to...
...As a result, the number of indices globally climbed 12 per cent to 3.73m in the year to June 2018, according to the second annual survey of the landscape by the Index Industry Association, a trade body....
...Now that we have a baseline, it’s fascinating to see the amount of innovation coming out of fixed income where investors are looking for more fine-tuned benchmarks,” Rick Redding, the chief executive of...
...As he mixes two exquisite margaritas at 3.30pm (normal hours: 6pm until 2am daily), he tells me: “It’s the same walls, the same wood, the same photos.”...
...Winton and Oak Tree declined to comment....
...Of Masía’s 300 hectares of hard soil and scrappy woodland, 50 are planted with carrasca oaks....
...In 2012, Sierra Leone made the trailblazing move of creating an internet database for mining contracts that would allow public access to revenue data for the country’s extractives industry, and covering...
...Oak Hill Capital Partners and GI Partners contributed just 22 per cent of the nearly $1bn they paid to buy WaveDivision this year, according to S&P....
...The factory at Sierra de Barbellido is a brutal concrete cube set on top of the tallest hill in the area. It looks exposed – a feature that’s vital to ham production, as we’ll see inside....
...Kewill jumped 27.3 per cent after agreeing to be bought by Francisco Partners, a US private equity house specialising in technology investments....
...Details Claire Wrathall was a guest of Bailey Robinson, which offers a week at Amanzoe from £3,000 per person, or £3,250 including flights from London....
...This one is delightfully mature and nutty. 17% £16.99 for 37.5cl Marks & Spencer (125 stores) Crociani, Vin Santo 2004 Montepulciano Lovely combination of long oak maturation aromas and racy, dried-grape...
...“But all the original mouldings, rose-oak woodwork, even pieces of folk sculpture are there.”...
...Those were all big names coming into the year, but the spotlight recently has shone on the first name in the category, Oak Pacific Interactive — yep, now better known as RenRen....
...Home Retail Group slid 2.5 per cent to 275p, Galiform was down 3.9 per cent to 80¾p and DSG International lost 3.4 per cent to 34p....
...When we arrived in Dover, a bough of holm oak flew from the yardarm, which harks back to the Men of Kent’s attempts to repel William the Conqueror....
...An upgrade to “buy” from Citigroup helped lift Reed Elsevier by 3.4 per cent to 450p....
...At the same time, the number of sales fell 3 per cent to 620. Matters could get worse....
...Gleaming oak flooring and carved oak panels from the 1600s give this room an imposing feel....
...The S&P removed three stocks, PMC Sierra, ADC Telecom and Sanmina-SCI - all technology companies....
...Its second-largest shareholder, the Libyan Arab Foreign Investment Company, with a 7.3 per cent stake, is not amused. It paid €30m for its stake, which is now worth less than €12m....
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