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...“The bumper sticker would say, we’re past the V,” says Michael Gapen, chief US economist at Barclays, referring to the shape of the recovery since the shocking collapse last year....
...On Monday Janet Yellen, US Treasury secretary, set out plans for a global minimum corporation tax on the eve of the spring meetings of the IMF and World Bank....
...Almost two-thirds of Russians are unwilling to receive the Sputnik V vaccine and about the same number believe Covid-19 was created as a biological weapon, a pollster said on Monday....
...Plus, the FT’s capital market’s correspondent Rob Smith explains how Carnival Corporation managed to persuade investors to put their money into the ailing cruise company....
...Gayle Smith, president of the ONE Campaign against global poverty, says a lack of global co-ordination threatens to prolong the pandemic....
...Jennifer Epps-Addison, network president of the Center for Popular Democracy, a progressive advocacy group, argued that powerful corporations were “trying to weasel their way out” of their responsibilities...
...(FT) T-Mobile and Sprint close to deal terms Sprint and T-Mobile are close to fresh takeover terms that would give Deutsche Telekom, the parent of T-Mobile US, about 43 per cent of the yet-to-be combined...
...Idexx said in October that the animal health market had experienced a “V-shaped recovery”....
...(BBC) Video of the day Are corporations paying enough tax?...
...DD’s Indap v NYU’s Damodaran: Is stock compensation good or bad?...
...(Forbes) Anna v Andrea It’s one of those boardroom battles that has captivated the global industry....
...Xerox wants to give HP’s board its walking papers We’re all guilty of overusing the David v Goliath trope but in the case of Xerox and HP, it really does apply....
...(WSJ) News round-up Barr recuses himself from T-Mobile-Sprint merger decision (NYPost) KKR reaps benefits of restructuring as earnings top view (FT) Beyond Meat looks to raise up to $240m in upsized...
...Legal experts warn that researchers and corporations are exploiting social media, scraping photos without the knowledge of the people who posted them....
...James Smith, economist at ING: A full 2021 recovery is unlikely....
...(FT) Warren v Wall Street? Elizabeth Warren is one of the country’s most prominent critics of Wall Street firms and big banks....
...In 2013 he launched a bid to take wireless carrier Sprint Nextel private for more than $25bn, but Dish ultimately pulled out after a bidding war with SoftBank....
...Shecter, who focuses on M&A, joins from Reed Smith....
...Law firm Morgan Lewis has hired three London-based partners, Mark Geday, Nicholas Moore, and Tomasz Wozniak, from Herbert Smith Freehills....
...Activist companies sell their vision of the world — letter from Mark Eisinger From climate change to gun rights, corporations are taking the lead....
...Over the summer he initiated a campaign against Hudson's Bay Corporation, the department store/property titan known for such chains as Saks, Lord & Taylor, Hudson's Bay and Kaufhof....
...She was appointed as the first cyber security counsel for a major corporation, at IBM....
...During the financial crisis, the real-time, practical manifestation of the liquidity v. solvency debate was about what financial institutions were worth saving....
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