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...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....
...America, in other words, should brace itself for a turbulent six months ahead – with no assurance of a safe landing....
...“Amazon” Cuomo et al will hope not. In Wisconsin, considerable effort was expended to woo Foxconn — a Taiwan-based company which makes, among other things, roughly half of the world’s iPhones....
...Per Starr et al., a 10 per cent increase in the number of non-competes leads to 6 per cent lower wages in states that enforce the agreements versus those that do not....
...Diamond et al estimated that the gains to people who were tenants in San Francisco in 1994, when there was a vote to tighten rent control laws, was $2.9bn between 1995 and 2012....
...He lost his house in the property crash in Florida and now lives in a local motel....
...At the end of last year, bonds made up about 68 per cent of US property and casualty insurers’ total investments and 76 per cent of life insurers’, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence....
...Chubb will give Ace a bigger footprint in the US, where it is a leading middle-market underwriter for commercial property and casualty insurance....
...Among the companies who pipe pay-TV into customers’ homes, satellite groups have emerged as the biggest casualties of cord-cutting....
...The deal will create America's second-largest listed property and casualty insurer by market capitalisation....
...The deal will create America’s second-largest listed property and casualty insurer by market capitalisation....
...Hancock, head of AIG’s property/casualty division since 2011, was seen as a front-runner for the top job, but the move came sooner than many had expected.”...
...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....
...That figure pales against the total value of the US housing market – $23.7tn at the end of 2012, according to Zillow – but it could grow exponentially if Blackstone et al are able to get their hands on cheap...
...In what reads like a tribute to the late Nobel Prize-winner Ronald Coase, who explained why companies exist, they outline why “the org” is important, even in a world of web-connected networks and home-workers...
...Fox Television Stations et al) was appealed to the US Supreme Court, where it was debated on Tuesday....
...Others, such as Indy Mac, American Home Mortgage and New Century Mortgage, died with nary a whimper. All were victims of poor residential real estate lending....
...Between 2007 and 2008, shares in harmony doubled in value. by March 2008, Motsepe’s portfolio of assets, which also includes a 5.5 per cent chunk of Sanlam, the life assurance company, was worth a massive...
...I propose that we close tax loopholes that reward companies for shipping American jobs overseas, and instead give companies greater incentive to create jobs right here at home – right here at home....
...As a former investment banker, Augar tells the story of the disaster in the financial markets. What really happened at Northern Rock, Royal Bank of Scotland et al? This gives you a clearer idea....
...Estelle, Coldplay et al at last week’s Grammys), British pop is better placed to cope with the economic meltdown than any of its global rivals....
...“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....
...It paints them as fearless – if foolhardy – in their expansion, but ultimately as the casualties of a global crisis....
...Chubb, the property and casualty insurer, rose 1.1 per cent to $76.63, while shares in the St Paul Travelers Companies, another property and casualty group, rose 1.4 per cent to $37.33....
...Again, Hugenholtz et al, point out that the majority of cases brought under the Directive have been about databases that would have been created anyway - telephone numbers, television schedules, concert...
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