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...One senior UK investment banker said there was “a bit of a brain drain” away from listed corporations towards private equity-backed businesses....
...Results: Pfizer, Starbucks, Ford, Uber, Molson Coors and Restaurant Brands all report earnings....
...In 2000, he stepped back to be chairman, making Orin Smith CEO. Smith was followed by Jim Donald, who Schultz elbowed aside in 2008, after lamenting “the commoditisation of the Starbucks experience”....
...Activist investor Jeff Smith has resigned from the board of Cyxtera, the data centre company his firm Starboard Value helped bring public via a Spac merger....
...ExxonMobil and UPS report earnings before the market opens while General Motors and Starbucks report after Wall Street closes....
...“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....
...Among the executives who signed the letter were Mellody Hobson, the new Starbucks chair; her fellow Ariel Investments executive John Rogers; and Robert F Smith, founder of Vista Equity Partners....
...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...
...(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....
...But for corporations such as Starbucks, which goes through 6bn disposable cups a year, new regulations could create an existential crisis....
...Legal experts warn that researchers and corporations are exploiting social media, scraping photos without the knowledge of the people who posted them....
...Just about everyone has hurt China’s feelings at some point or another: Nike, Starbucks, Apple and Dolce & Gabbana are all offenders....
...James Smith, economist at ING: A full 2021 recovery is unlikely....
...On Thursday Blackstone announced it would ditch its tax-advantaged partnership structure and become a corporation, sending the company’s shares up 7.5 per cent....
...Lesley Ellis, Tarland, Aberdeenshire, UK We should know better than being outraged at tax / From Larry Strange, Phnom Penh, Cambodia Latin life lessons from Quintus son of Caecilius / From Susan Neil-Smith...
...Activist companies sell their vision of the world — letter from Mark Eisinger From climate change to gun rights, corporations are taking the lead....
...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....
...Starbucks paid nearly as much corporation tax in 2015 as it did in its first 14 years in the UK....
...A reform of US corporation tax would reduce the competitive advantage of the UK’s present corporation tax policy....
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