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...Here’s what else I’m keeping tabs on today and over the weekend: Results: Credit card group American Express and SLB, formerly Schlumberger, the oilfield services group, report second-quarter earnings today...
...His charts of North American profits: Measuring the total profitability of the corporate sector is a tricky, uncertain business....
...Brad H Birmingham, AL, US Thank you for all the responses and do keep them coming. They may feature in a future edition of FirstFT....
...OUTSIDE CONTENDER: Hamed Bin Zayed al Nahyan The Abu Dhabi Investment Authority was set up in 1976, the year Mao Zedong died and when Norway was only starting to pump a few barrels of oil out of the North...
...Pearson has largely squandered the proceeds of recent asset sales, Lex writes....
...As Robert Smith laboured under a criminal tax investigation in recent years, the billionaire private equity executive played hardball with the Internal Revenue Service....
...“CN already has a tremendous North American rail network; it does not need KCS to prosper in the future....
...Providence Equity Partners has promoted Davis Noell and David Phillips to senior managing directors and North American co-heads in New York, as well as Karim Tabet and Andrew Tisdale as European-co-heads...
...Yet as coronavirus prompts us to remake our cities we need to return the waterways to service, says Simon Kuper....
...(FT) News round-up Billionaire Robert F Smith buys two North Palm Beach homes for $48.19m (WSJ) Crispin Odey: one foot out the door (FT Lex) Italy’s biggest bank posts higher than expected profits (FT...
...(FT) The day ahead USMCA meeting Donald Trump and Andrés Manuel López Obrador will toast the launch of the new North American trade pact on Wednesday, but Mexico’s president risks wading into a political...
...Washington threatened on Monday to impose the tariffs on French goods after the US trade representative’s office concluded that a French digital services tax unfairly discriminates against American technology...
...In 1957, its longtime Africa director Jules Cousin wrote fearfully of the asset seizures in the Russian and Chinese revolutions and a recent string of independences in north Africa....
...millions across North America and western Europe....
...Now, everyone from JPMorgan Chase to Goldman will be watching how Bettinger handles a combined 24m client accounts holding some $5tn in assets....
...Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
...When the Colony Capital chief executive was trying to get himself installed as Middle East envoy in 2017, he sent a text message to a businessman and reputed Emirati intelligence asset named Rashid al-Malik...
...Kaveh Samie, KKR head in the Middle East and north Africa, has departed the buyout firm, according to Bloomberg....
...Here, an alternative option could be for Centrica to sell its North American energy supply business. Overall, we estimate 12%-40% downside under this scenario....
...Certainly, the food remains classic and lush (guinea hen with truffles and Madeira et al), and the prices remain high to the point of becoming a sort of performance art....
...And, as lockdown measures are softened, the return of the likes of Gregg's, Starbucks et al to the UK FtG market will increase competition....
...Bookrunners said the Abu Dhabi investors Saeed Al Qebaisi and Khalifa Al Muhairi, better known as the Butti family, slotted NMC stock at £12 apiece, a 20 per cent discount to Tuesday’ close....
...The biggest of today’s stars — Beyoncé, Rihanna et al — treat the notion of complete self-revelation to an interviewer, a staple of rock stars of the past, as utterly alien, so why would they sign up for...
...Per Starr et al., a 10 per cent increase in the number of non-competes leads to 6 per cent lower wages in states that enforce the agreements versus those that do not....
...A brief history of Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac For decades, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have helped Americans secure cheaper mortgages....
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