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...Early this month, he forced the replacement of Ronna McDaniel as chair of the Republican national committee, with Michael Whatley, the former party head in North Carolina....
...The rise of this new class of donors comes as some prominent GOP megadonors — including Ken Griffin and Stephen Schwarzman — have urged the party to move on from the former president but continue to be in...
...Elena Kagan wrote the dissent, joined by the two other liberals, Stephen Breyer and Sonia Sotomayor....
...“This is just another nail in the coffin of the Republican establishment,” says Stephen Myrow, a former official in the George W Bush administration now at Beacon Policy Advisors....
...Raymond McDaniel, chief executive, said Moody’s would double the size of its share buyback programme this year, to $1bn, and also increase its dividend by 25 per cent....
...availability of financing from public sources, such as the long-term refinancing for banks and the ‘funding for lending’ programme in the UK, there are alternatives to securitisation markets,” said Raymond McDaniel...
...Raymond McDaniel, the chief executive of Moody’s, on Friday tried to assuage shareholder fears that his rating agency could be the next target of the US government, which is suing rival Standard & Poor’s...
...Mr McDaniel is sceptical that the industry can sustain many more actors. “There were eight or nine agencies back in the late 80s and early 90s....
...Mr McDaniel and the other agency executives present yesterday, Deven Sharma of Standard and Poor’s and Stephen Joynt of Fitch Ratings, said their companies were co-operating fully with reviews of the agencies...
...“We drink the Kool-Aid,” Raymond McDaniel, the firm’s president, told his fellow directors in late 2007 (a reference to the 1978 Jonestown massacre and those who obeyed orders to consume a cyanide-laced...
...Everyone breathed a sigh of relief," says Stephen Peacher, chief investment officer, corporates and emerging markets, at Putnam Investments....
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