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...Instead, they blame investors for their lack of vision and risk appetite, like the washed-up silent-film actress Norma Desmond who thundered in the 1950 film Sunset Boulevard: “I am big — it’s the pictures...
...The 433,000 weekly audience of TalkRadio compares to about 2.7m for LBC, a fast-expanding London-based station that caught the mood of Brexit Britain....
...This compares with $35m spent in the year ending June 2018 by News Corp, which owned the now defunct News of the World at the centre of the scandal....
.../ From Elizabeth Desmond, London, UK...
...The S&P 500 was down 0.2 per cent to 2,504.77 while the Dow Jones Industrial Average was off 0.1 per cent to 22,393.83. Meanwhile, the Nasdaq Composite declined 0.4 per cent to 6,433.97....
...with Sue Desmond-Hellmann, CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation....
...and gas prices.The number of wells being drilled in the US has more than doubled, from 2,168 in the second quarter of 2016 to 4,433 in the equivalent period of this year, according to S&P Global PlattsRigData...
...Equities Wall Street certainly appeared unfazed, with the S&P 500 ending barely changed at 2,433 — less than 6 points short of last Friday’s record close for the US equity index....
...News of the setback to Project Juno comes a week after Trinity Mirror, publisher of the Daily Mirror and the UK’s biggest local newspaper group, confirmed that it was in talks with Richard Desmond about...
...LinkedIn’s data on its 433 million members may slow approval, as regulators wrestle with how to analyse the competitive impact of big data on mergers....
...However, LinkedIn’s data on its 433 million members may slow things down....
...Initially, Dr Desmond-Hellmann had been attracted by the scientific challenge....
...The Express titles, owned by Richard Desmond, are in talks with Daily Mirror owner Trinity Mirror about creating a new company that may look to share backroom operations....
...Ms Chan, who joins from Barclays, will replace Desmond Liu, who is retiring at the end of 2016....
...While it was bought for £2bn by a Canadian-led consortium of pension funds earlier this year, Irish financier Dermot Desmond paid just £23.5m for it in 1995....
...The US fund has owned London City since 2006, when it was bought for an estimated £750m from Dermot Desmond, the Irish financier, who paid just £23.5m for London City in 1995....
...Possible buyers for the publications, which made £16.7m in pre-tax profit last year, would include Trinity Mirror, publisher of the Daily Mirror, and Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, owner of The Sun....
...Ukip secured a £1m donation from Richard Desmond, owner of the Daily and Sunday Express....
...Desmond Browne QC, acting for PC Rowland, said that although Mr Mitchell could be charming to police officers he had a “capacity for menace” that “finds its outlet in a foul temper and foul language”....
...Channel 5 is in the process of being sold for £450m to Viacom, a deal that will return to its owner Richard Desmond four times his initial investment....
...5 for £350m from Richard Desmond....
...Shares in Dai-ichi dropped 5 per cent to close at Y1,433, against a 2 per cent rise in the Nikkei average....
...The two clashed in 2006 when Mr Malone covertly built an 18 per cent holding in News Corp. He ultimately exchanged it for News Corp’s controlling stake in DirecTV, the US satellite business....
...Desmond explores sale of Channel 5 Richard Desmond is considering the £700m sale of Channel 5, the free-to-air television broadcaster, which would net the media entrepreneur several times his original investment...
...service etiquette; Archbishop Desmond Tutu was told to put his mobile phone awayby former Irish President Mary Robinson during the ceremony....
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