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...In the late 1990s, fighting in the Congo claimed hundreds of thousands of lives. Now it has flared up again in the border area....
...Smart reads Tea empire A group of Kenyan co-operatives with hundreds of thousands of members has expressed interest in buying tea estates from private equity firm CVC only to be ignored, the FT reveals....
...On paper, Mnuchin has made hundreds of millions of dollars in a single day, while other investors in the deal such as hedge fund Hudson Bay Capital and private equity firm Reverence Capital are also sitting...
...Since Brexit, global banks have bolstered their operations in Paris, Frankfurt, Amsterdam and Dublin, shifting hundreds of billions of dollars in assets from London....
...The manoeuvre underscored the risks that hundreds of thousands of wealthy individuals such as multimillionaires — dubbed “retail investors” in private equity circles — had taken by investing in private assets...
...Hit The Right Notes (Music Round) Swedish Krona (Money, Money, Money by ABBA) Colombian Peso (She Wolf by Shakira) US Dollar (Despacito by Luis Fonsi) Canadian Dollar (My Heart Will Go On by Céline Dion...
...Earlier in the week, Disney had announced that Iger’s tenure would be extended by two years and that his annual bonus scheme had been increased by five times....
...Read more: Science Editor Clive Cookson explains the technology used in submersibles such as the missing Titan that allow them to travel thousands of metres below the sea’s surface. 2....
...We ate quickly, and in silence, and I paid the check and left a hundred-dollar tip. We got in the van and made for the Allapattah address the Italians had given us....
...At the end of 2023, H2O wrote down the value of its remaining Windhorst investments and was hit with a lawsuit from thousands of aggrieved investors claiming they had lost hundreds of millions of euros....
...But getting the defence department to reallocate some of its mammoth $886bn budget from its five incumbent prime contractors, which include Lockheed Martin and Boeing, to the thousands of entrepreneurs producing...
...The start of underground mining at Oyu Tolgoi in March is expected to help boost Mongolia’s economy to growth of 5.2 per cent this year, up from 4.7 per cent in 2022....
...Quentin MuggYou know instinct kicks in. You tell me that you imported a hundred thousand euros worth of shrimps. But what shrimp was that? Live shrimp? Uh, frozen shrimp? Big shrimps?...
...Munger grew up in Omaha, Nebraska, a few hundred feet from where Buffett now lives. The two met in 1959, when Buffett was 28 and Munger 35....
...Five unmissable stories this week A group of 255 of the UK’s top private equity dealmakers earned £2.7bn in carried interest in a single year, according to an analysis by law firm Macfarlanes, the kind...
...US banks have a whole lot of unrealised losses in their bond portfolios. How large were those losses at the end of 2022 to the nearest hundred billion dollars?...
...Updating and improving the regulator’s information technology systems is a process that takes years and costs hundreds of millions of dollars, yet the political appointees who run the FAA “aren’t in place...
...Chemours sets aside hundreds of millions of dollars every year to clean up past pollution....
...The recruitment of the 20-strong team was unusual for a big hedge fund in a sector largely focused on stocks, bonds and currencies....
...The CEO lived with a rotating cast of colleagues in a five-bedroom penthouse with views of the yachts in the marina....
...But within a week he was discussing rulemaking that could potentially affect tens of thousands of dollars’ worth of his personal investments....
...The central American country, where poverty and violence have pushed hundreds of thousands to seek a better life in the US, enthusiastically embraced the idea a decade ago....
...Venture capital firms, professional investors that had helped get FTX off the ground have had to write down their investments, some of them worth hundreds of millions of dollars, down to a big fat zero....
...Trouble at home: Protests against Putin’s mobilisation of hundreds of thousands of reserve soldiers spread across Russia at the weekend. 3....
...Some came from people like McKeever, a few hundred a pop. And perhaps thousands per bet came from high-net-worth interlopers partying in the corporate box....
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