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...; Visual Comfort & Co, a lighting company; and Boyd Corporation, a California manufacturer whose products include cooling systems used for machine learning and in drones, according to its website....
...Under 28 U.S.C. section 1408, a company can file bankruptcy in any district where it has its domicile, principal place of business, or principal assets for 180 days prior to bankruptcy....
...During the 1980s, low interest rates and a stock market bubble fuelled a Japanese buying spree of trophy US assets like the Pebble Beach golf course, Columbia Records, Firestone Tire and InterContinental...
...Silicon Valley Bank, Santa Clara, California, in a manner that fully protects all depositors....
...JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Citigroup and Wells Fargo will each deposit $5bn into First Republic, a California-based lender....
...It is a disrupter in another way, too. Rather than being classed as a C or S Corp, as is usual for large US companies, Lemonade is incorporated as a public benefit corporation (PBC)....
...The fundraising was a lifeline, giving the company enough money to last until the end of the year, according to estimates from S&P Global Ratings....
...While North Dakota’s Bakken is entering a twilight, the Permian is showing signs of recovery after 2020’s price crash....
...Its balance sheet could do with a tidy-up: net debt in the past 12 months was more than $32bn, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence, almost three times that of competitor Valero Energy....
...And that means a corporation is obliged to put the interests of its workers, contractors, service providers, lenders, and others “with a legal and ethical claim to being paid” ahead of its stockholders....
...Founder Ray Kroc was at a convention in 1968 selling franchises for his fast-growing southern California burger chain when he encountered Joan Smith, then married to one of his franchisees....
...One mystery here is the identity of the investment consortia buyers, “Gemstone Investment Holding Ltd” and “Allied Cigar Corporation, S.L”....
...A group of 10 state attorneys-general led by New York and California have sued to block the $26bn mobile telecommunications deal....
...In 2010, it received a $465m loan from the Department of Energy to, among other things, help develop its manufacturing plant in California. In 2013, it paid the loan back with interest....
...Richard Peterson, of California-based MarketPsych, argues that identifying securities that generate the greatest anger could be a successful strategy: Anger distorts judgment....
...But the S&P 500 is up to 3.3 times book and the spread between the two indices is still near a record....
...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),...
...It would be hard to find the head of a publicly listed group doing something so egregious in 2016, but the total spent by S&P 500 companies on personal corporate jet flights was still roughly $40m a year...
...Lists of the companies that occupy the lowest rating rungs compiled by both Moody’s and S&P have swelled and include well-known groups such as Sears, Getty Images, Advanced Micro Devices, California Pizza...
...Minxin Pei, professor of government at Claremont McKenna College in California, raises a series of concerns....
...California-based Palo Alto logged a net loss of $38.7m for its fiscal first quarter, wider than a loss of $30.1m in the same period in 2014....
...Meanwhile, back in the lab, SoftBank corporation’s “emotional” robot, Pepper, is soon to be introduced to the US market after a successful launch in Japan....
...This was a significant U-turn from the previously cautious approach regulators had taken to the stock market and its linkages with the wider financial system....
...The Mexico line was even more coveted, as it would have been China’s first overseas high-speed rail project and could have potentially set a precedent for further deals, including a California tender to...
...In the S&P as a whole some companies have started to need that cash previously considered indefinitely foreign, with balances falling at 47 groups....
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