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...The stock price of Mizuho is up a tenth this year. The bank had the highest direct loan exposure to Russia at $1.8bn last September, according to S&P Global data....
...The decision represents a U-turn by Canberra, which last year supported fast-tracking construction of the Asian Renewable Energy Hub on a 6,500 sq km site in a remote region in Western Australia....
...The economy was in a shambles, after the US mortgage crisis had rocked the global financial system, and many Wall Streeters were desperate for distractions....
...’s U-turn on the use of Huawei in 5G networks....
...The U.S. government assumes that a pandemic will last 18 months or longer and could include multiple waves of illness....
...AstraZeneca Plc has made a preliminary approach to rival drugmaker Gilead Sciences Inc. about a potential merger, according to people familiar with the matter, in what would be the biggest health-care deal...
...The bank estimates that nearly one-third of the S&P 500’s profit-margin growth between 1997 and 2014 was the result of rising market concentration....
...The Navy blamed a loss of situational awareness, failure to follow the nautical “Rules of the Road”, and the crew’s inadequate knowledge of steering and propulsion systems....
...S. inventor’s U. S. patent rights.” She wrote: Because a sale abroad operates independently of the U. S. patent system, it makes little sense to say that such a sale exhausts an inventor’s U....
...The Dow is in fact no longer owned by Dow Jones, as it was sold to a joint venture of S&P Global and CME Group Inc. in 2012. But it is too good a brand to kill off....
...Donald Trump pointed the finger at a systems outage at Delta that resulted in flight cancellations on Sunday evening and Monday morning....
...Brakes The shift from conventional to carbon brakes cut 907kg from the weight of the 747’s 16 braking systems, according to UTC Aerospace Systems....
...“When consumers pick up a PlayStation VR system in October they’ll enjoy a seamless experience that’s straightforward to set up and accessible to all types of gamers.”...
...Not so long ago, this cost a lot more and required specialist wiring. Sonos sells more than just the speakers....
...in violation of sections 23A and 23B of the Federal Reserve Act, 12 U.S.C. §§371c & 371c-1, made applicable to state nonmember insured institutions by section 18(j)(1) of the Act, 12 U.S.C. §1828(j)(1),...
...Mention of a “focused power systems portfolio” will stimulate talk of disposals. A slew of results and other updates shows a patchy performance on profits from other businesses....
...The S&P 500 companies as a whole have spent more than $6 trillion on such payments between 2005 and 2014, bolstering share prices and the markets even as they were cutting jobs and investment....
...The tension contributed to a 1 per cent fall for the S&P 500 to 1,920, leaving it 3.4 per cent below its record high....
...(Financial Times) “Japan’s Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group is in preliminary talks with Royal Bank of Scotland Group about buying RBS’s U.S. retail bank, according to people familiar with the discussions...
...The deal, which would mark an escalation in the U.S. crackdown on financial firms, could be announced early next week and would consist of a roughly $1.7 billion settlement with the Justice Department, a...
...The change to the law in Japan was prompted by an IMF report in the summer of 2012 that noted that while the country’s financial system appeared sound, it lacked a clear system-wide “safety net” for depositors...
...(Bloomberg) GM “must turn over documents related to its subprime auto-lending under a subpoena issued by the U.S....
...Yes, this assumes the worst in each case, and there are exceptions and spectrums and caveats and “to be sure”s and “don’t get me wrong”s....
...The agreement transforms Amaya, a little-known supplier of betting equipment and systems, into the largest publicly held online gambling company in the world, according to a statement yesterday.”...
...Those having second thoughts include officials at the largest public pension fund in the U.S., the California Public Employees’ Retirement System, or Calpers....
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