Hints and tips:
...“You’re not just saying ‘we’ll build our plants somewhere else’, it’s [that] the subcontractors and suppliers to that plant are all based in South China.”...
...“Netflix is giving a margin of just 10-15 per cent to Korean production studios, and taking all the intellectual property rights for the content....
...The legions of analysts and lobbyists employed by them in all sectors suggest large companies appreciate that they do not operate in a vacuum....
...“Doug was the draw,” she stresses about her move to South America after their marriage in 1994....
...The proceeds of Thursday’s IPO all go to the parent Axa as it looks to fund its $15bn buyout of property and casualty insurer XL Group. Axa has other priorities than its US businesses....
...McKinsey, KPMG South Africa, and SAP all apologised last year after their work with Gupta-linked companies was exposed in a series of leaked emails, with SAP also referring evidence of alleged corruption...
...Xcerra, the Massachusetts-based testing chip company, was the latest casualty, when it in February ditched its agreement to be acquired by a state-backed fund in the face of regulatory hurdles....
...The city of San Bruno lies a few miles to the south of San Francisco and just to the north of other Silicon Valley headquarters such as Facebook and Apple....
...Mr Greenberg created the Chubb of today when in 2015 he struck the biggest deal in property and casualty insurance history. He was CEO of Ace, the Zurich-based insurer he joined in 2001....
...Both companies provide property and casualty cover in the state, writes Alistair Gray in New York....
...(FastFT) Commodities trading houses see more assertive China (Financial Times) “Univar Inc, the largest chemicals distributor in North America, is exploring an initial public offering that could value...
...But even before its disastrous turn with derivatives, AIG was known for aggressive pricing on premiums in its property and casualty business, focusing on top-line growth rather than profitability....
...It is just as well that underlying performance in its property and casualty unit was solid....
...she says, as a V-shaped crack in the island’s cliffs reveals the settlement of Jamestown. “And it’s British!”...
...What is more, incoming capital rules for insurers in the European Union are widely expected not only to add to this mountain of inactive property and casualty insurance books, but also to increase the economic...
...Chart’s Inc, the property and casualty arm of US insurer AIG and one of the biggest foreign employers in Japan, with more than 10,000 staff, began to move some managers and staff to offices in Osaka, Okinawa...
...Some parts of the economy – property prices in first-tier cities, for example – are a bit frothy, but the idea of a generalised bubble is folly....
...By December 2001, Mr Weill even turned his back on a big part of his legacy, moving to spin off Citigroup’s Travelers property and casualty insurance arm – which had given Mr Weill his corporate name and...
...America’s image has suffered under the Bush presidency, but most of the damage was done in the first term, especially after the war of choice against Iraq....
...“He could see around corners,” says Edward Matthews, one of Mr Greenberg’s most senior lieutenants at AIG and then at C.V. Starr, his investment vehicle....
...Morgan Stanley said that since the start of this year alone, the 10 per cent drop in the FTSE All-Share (and larger declines in overseas markets) and declining property values had added about £40bn to the...
...It is latest casualty in the growing shake-up of global aviation as carriers struggle to cope with record oil prices and weakening economic growth....
...In the second world war the castle defended the only road dividing the north and south of Italy and Rommel apparently stopped there on his way to the south....
...Earlier this month, Heritage, the Lloyd’s insurer, rebuffed an approach by Ironsure, a property and casualty insurer based in Bermuda, saying the price was too low....
...Andrew Cuomo of New York state made headlines this spring with a series of subpoenas to property appraisal companies and has said publicly that he is probing the entire industry....
International Edition