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...And this fire has not gone out, or rather it is the biggest one left by Ghosn.” A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on August 25. ©2021 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...The quick-fire round: public auctions make a comeback (of sorts) Auctions for control of publicly traded companies, overseen by the UK’s Takeover Panel, haven’t been a big feature of the country’s M&A landscape...
...Only about half of insurance companies disclosed a low-carbon transition plan and only half of those companies were taking action with their underwriting portfolios, CDP said....
...Mitsubishi Motors chairman Osamu Masuko has resigned, marking the last departure of a Carlos Ghosn-era chief executive in the alliance with Nissan and Renault. More here....
...Several members of the family, including the twins, became formidable forces in American tech....
...As Sujeet Indap described in his Inside Finance column, the judge had some tough thoughts on activist investors who want to force companies into quick-fire sales....
...He also credits her with making him keep a dermatology appointment on the morning of 9/11, sparing him from the carnage in the twin towers....
...“I think for a lot of people it was a big warning sign,” says one credit fund manager....
...“There are puffs of smoke, but I don’t want to yell fire in a crowded theatre.”...
...The fundamentals of the housing market mirror the slowly improving economy, says Keith Gumbinger, vice-president of HSH, a mortgage research company....
...(FT) Nissan buys Mitsubishi stake Nissan is taking a 34 per cent stake in Mitsubishi Motors for about Y240bn ($2.2bn), as its smaller Japanese rival grapples with a scandal over inflated fuel economy data...
...The government came under fire last year when it began selling RBS, offloading 5.4 per cent of its stake at a £1.1bn loss to taxpayers. Just under 10 per cent of Lloyds is now held by the government....
...Technology — mostly in the form of Uber and Zipcar — has finally made it viable for city dwellers not to own a car, as well as cheaper, less stressful, healthier (you walk more) and only marginally less...
...Credit Suisse (Finance) 97. Direct Line (Insurance) 98. CVS Caremark (Retail) 99. Aviva (Insurance) 100. Verizon Communications (Telecommunications) 101. Lloyds Banking Group (Finance) 102....
...Searches produce pictures of a bikini-clad lady of that name, who appears unrelated to the private equity company or the Greek tragic heroine....
...Technology and media industry companies took up nearly a third of all new leasing in downtown Manhattan last year, compared to 17 per cent for FIRE — finance, insurance, real estate — tenants, according...
...The plan had been aimed at controlling the number of new cars clogging the city’s roads, but came under fire from Uber and its supporters who accused the mayor of protecting the taxi industry....
...as banks have pulled back from providing commercial mortgages and credit to companies....
...of extended warranties, credit life insurance and dealer-installed accessories into contracts.”...
...(Financial Times) The US’s road safety regulator on Tuesday delivered its strongest public rebuke so far over General Motors’ handling of a botched ignition switch recall when it called the company’s failure...
...Now, companies are realising it can damage their brand, their credibility, their credit rating and their insurance costs....
...(Financial Times) Virtu Financial, a high-frequency trading company, has delayed a planned US IPO after its bankers advised it to hold fire as this week’s publication of Flash Boys thrust the business of...
...But the “big data” that interests many companies is what we might call “found data”, the digital exhaust of web searches, credit card payments and mobiles pinging the nearest phone mast....
...The Motor City’s decision to treat its general obligation bonds as unsecured even though the bonds were backed by the full faith and credit of the city sent shock waves through the municipal bond world....
...Perceptions in the main cities of accelerating reform and robust growth contrast with tensions in many parts of the country....
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