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...The company, Plan D LLC, owned a Gulfstream jet. In court papers reviewed by the FT, the US Virgin Islands government cites flight logs showing that the plane transported underage girls....
...Quant funds like Renaissance Technologies, the $60bn firm founded by Jim Simons, and DE Shaw, continued their winning streak....
...“I’d say to our designer: make the B on the headphones bigger,” Iovine recalls. “And he’d say, ‘I don’t know . . . it’s too big.’ We are competing with headphones but we’re also competing with Nike....
...The event closed with the premiere of an original song by the R&B artist The Weeknd. The reaction from the crowd was muted. It had not been a great presentation....
...We employed a curve in which the average grade was a B+, and only a tiny number of students received grades below a C. I told the class this, but it had no effect on the students’ mood....
...By midday on September 26, and before either Vista or Sponsor B submitted a final bid, someone at TIBCO discovered that the share count information in the Second Cap Table was incorrect....
...Royal Dutch Shell B shares lost a further 2.1 per cent to £21.55 after Thursday’s weaker-than-expected results, which led Merrill Lynch to cut the stock off its “buy” list....
...Which means that a) a tax will hit them hard, and b) redomiciling – at least in a technical sense - could be fairly easy....
...Last month, it acquired Kazakhstan’s Sumbe for $335m, a company expected to produce 20,000 b/d by 2014. KNOC now pumps 128,000 b/d after adding 54,000 b/d from Harvest....
...Among hedge fund groups rumoured as possible IPO candidates, Renaissance Technologies’ James Simons is 68, David Shaw of D.E. Shaw is 55 and Thomas Steyer of Farallon Capital is 49....
...Investment Management Hugh B....
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