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...They followed the Pinault family of Ch Latour et al, who, in 2013, bought what is now called The Eisele Vineyard from the Araujos, and were so confident of their savoir-faire that they didn’t even impose...
...If you owned rate-sensitive, high-risk stocks yesterday you have Unhedged’s permission to sell and take the rest of the year off (Carvana, Zillow, SoFi, et al rose 10 per cent or more)....
...Sheikh Jassim bin Hamad al-Thani, son of one of Qatar’s richest men who had been the only party looking to buy 100 per cent of United, withdrew from the bidding on Saturday....
...The company has instead opted to list via a special acquisition company. Shares are due to begin trading later this month on the lower-tier NYSE American exchange....
...Bank of America is advising Sheikh Jassim on the Manchester United bid. Sheikh Jassim has long been in his father’s shadow....
...being undermined by the leadership of United Arab Emirates oil executive Sultan al-Jaber....
...But there’s another royal tycoon that tends to slip under the radar: MBZ’s brother Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed al-Nahyan, the United Arab Emirate’s national security adviser who also controls some of the country...
...The company has plans to open more than 120 stores, about half of which will be in North America. Investors will find out more with a trading update on Wednesday....
...His name is Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan . . . He is one of the most powerful men on Earth, and yet the ruler of the United Arab Emirates maintains a relatively low profile on the world stage....
...The decision has led to the legalised bribery that afflicts US politics. Now see the many state attorneys-general (acolytes, no doubt of Alito et. al.) who want to sanction corporations that adopt ESG....
...It comes iced, nitro (cold brew made with nitrogen gas for an ultra-smooth texture) or hot, with all of the usual suspects represented: macchiato, cappuccino, cortadito et al....
...In 1996, senator John McCain, a huge boxing fan, had railed against the UFC on the floor of the US Senate, calling it “human cockfighting”, and sent letters to the governor of every state asking them to...
...The SEC charged the United States Oil Fund, the exchange traded product at the centre of last year’s sub-zero oil market meltdown, and its partner United States Commodity Funds, for “misleading statements...
...of being a career politician’, as any reasonable person might be if one’s next promotion depended on the affirmation of the United States Senate....
...As Richard Masters, chief executive of the English Premier League, quipped this week, at least England is “confident” of a winner in this one after Manchester United’s underwhelming penalty shootout loss...
...It is slightly more realistic to hope that Facebook et al will be forced into more equitable revenue sharing with the media. Such platforms are a huge part of the problem....
...Then there’s the industry ties to Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, the ruler of Dubai and the owner of the Godolphin stables....
...For example, in a 2010 opinion (Chevron Corp v Steven Donziger, et al) handed down from the US district court in Manhattan, the judge wrote that the “evidence at trial established that Donziger, a New York...
...The case, Brown et al. vs USA Taekwondo et al., deals with sexual abuse suffered by three young former Olympic hopefuls in taekwondo, whose coach was convicted and sent to prison in 2015....
...(FT) The humbling of the Anglo-American world Some scholars have likened America and Britain’s premature relaxation of social distancing to a failure of Stanford University’s marshmallow test....
...“The fact that [David] Cameron, [Jeremy] Heywood (the most powerful civil servant) et al did not understand many basic features of how the world works is why I and a few others gambled on the referendum,...
...Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
...Chetty et al. (2017) find that there is a 14 years life expectancy gap between top and bottom 1% males in the US, and that this gap has widened since 2001....
...Certainly, the food remains classic and lush (guinea hen with truffles and Madeira et al), and the prices remain high to the point of becoming a sort of performance art....
...And, as lockdown measures are softened, the return of the likes of Gregg's, Starbucks et al to the UK FtG market will increase competition....
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