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...Holland and Sons, Whytock and Reid, Hampton and Sons and Cornelius V Smith are also good names to type into your search browser....
...The buildings will be consolidated as part of the Northern Metropolis project....
...Credit the cash cushion American consumers and corporations built during the pandemic....
...As ever, drop me a note at sid.v@ft.com if you’ve got thoughts and ideas for upcoming Future of Money newsletters....
...The purchase of the railroad operator will enable Canadian Pacific to launch the first rail network spanning Canada, the US and Mexico....
...This is welcome news for prime minister Narendra Modi, who needs the money to finance the country’s recovery from the coronavirus pandemic and to help fund a revamp of India’s sprawling rail and road networks...
...And on the corporation tax point, ever since Truss has said that she didn’t want to put up corporation tax from 19p to 25p, which she said she was going to do, a lot of businesses have said we’re all for...
...Mr Son’s personal borrowings against his stake are separate to the $55bn in net debt and $180bn of total consolidated debt at SoftBank, which investors cited as one reason why shares in the company fell...
...“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....
...But provision of DB pensions by private corporations has become unacceptably expensive to corporate sponsors....
...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....
...The developers of Russia’s Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine have demanded an apology from Europe’s drug regulator for comments made by the head of the agency likening having the jab to “Russian roulette”....
...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....
...Tristram Hunt is director of the V&A and a former MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central....
...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....
...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...
...It’s a shame then that the“short-haul” rail market is so flawed....
...I refer readers to the “Consolidated Statement Of Cash Flows” in Brookfield’s 2019 annual report, page F-13, if they would like to draw their own conclusions....
...Given social distancing, SSP expects rail passenger volume recovery to be slow....
...Powerhouse Rail” project linking cities in northern England....
...(FT) Hong Kong off the rails A subway train derailed in Hong Kong during Tuesday morning’s rush hour, the latest blow to the city’s MTR corporation, which is facing an “unprecedented” challenge, its chief...
...(BBC) Video of the day Are corporations paying enough tax?...
...Against the general trend, yesterday Ferrari confidently guided to a V-shaped recovery in its P&L from H2/20....
...(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....
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