Hints and tips:
...“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....
...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 fed into the nineties neoliberal view of globalising corporations as a parallel power base to nation states....
...(BBC) Video of the day Are corporations paying enough tax?...
...(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....
...(FT) Milan v Madrid Southern Europe’s two main financial centres were both hit by the 2008 crash, but prices in Madrid have raced ahead of those in its Italian cousin since....
...Legal experts warn that researchers and corporations are exploiting social media, scraping photos without the knowledge of the people who posted them....
...The disclosure agreements from Ameriprise Financial, Chubb, Mondelez International, MSCI and Tractor Supply represent a significant step forward for corporate governance campaigners, who have used the threat...
...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....
...Activist companies sell their vision of the world — letter from Mark Eisinger From climate change to gun rights, corporations are taking the lead....
...Others doubt that self-employed Ed, who took on a huge loan to buy a new tractor, has the requisite three years of accounts....
...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....
...A reform of US corporation tax would reduce the competitive advantage of the UK’s present corporation tax policy....
...Lily Le Brun Photographs: Mike Kitcatt/V&A; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Christina Smith/V&A; Kawaii Monster Café Harajuku; Gion; Pip Barnard/V&A; A Astes/Alamy; James Jaron/V&A...
...According to Ha’aretz, EAPC’s main shareholder is APC Holdings, based in Halifax, Canada, and other shareholders include the Panamanian Eilat Corporation....
...alison.smith@ft.com...
...Carlos V of Spain said priests who plonked a Gothic cathedral in the middle of Cordoba’s Great Mosque had tainted the exceptional with the ordinary....
...I’ve already announced a reduction in our corporation tax rate to 18%....
...One way to picture the economic impact of a Brexit may be the shape of a letter ‘V’ or a ‘tick’....
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