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...Pano Kanelos, 53, is the president of a new college called UATX, which stands for the University of Austin, Texas (not to be confused with the highly regarded University of Texas, Austin, or UT, founded...
...FT columnist Patti Waldmeir reports on how the transportation of migrants by Texas Republicans to Democratic cities in a protest over lack of enforcement of the Mexican border has upended the politics of...
...The Founders Fund had zero per cent of its investments in Miami-based start-ups until its 2020 fund, which included about nine per cent....
...Full access to the credits will in some circumstances also require companies to source the bulk of materials — steel, iron and other products — from within the US....
...They believe if we give consumers a $1,400 cheque and small businesses more funds through the Payroll Protection Program, the stimulus will carry us across the breach....
...The chief executive of Reddit and Robinhood will testify this week at US congressional hearings, alongside leading Wall Street hedge fund managers....
...Chart of the day We have tracked the fact that ESG stock funds have outperformed this year, largely due to their limited exposure to oil and energy companies....
...The label meant something very different then than it does today — the red of workers’ blood, rather than poor white prejudice....
...The field is now under review, with “divestment an option being considered”, BHP said on Wednesday. The company also revealed it was studying bids for 50,000 acres of Texas gasfield....
...But the trustees of the M&S pension scheme played a key role in alarming Sir Phil about the scale of the pension fund deficit and their funding demands....
...If you ask them to go to Texas, they will go to Texas.”...
...east Texas, which would cut the total portfolio by around 80 per cent....
...(Look at the prices of iron ore, copper, and coal if you want to quibble about the date.) One consequence is that more than all of the increase in investment since 2008 has come from emerging markets....
...Most of the damage, the Washington-based institution said, would result from the higher cost of doing business as fears of contracting Ebola left companies without workers, disrupted transport systems and...
...The charity has been given a lifespan of 15 years as both of us, the trustees, are in our late 50s, and we have undertaken not to expand or extend the fund apart from through judicious investments....
...The actual work of creating or destroying money in modern times is as banal as it is powerful: A handful of midlevel workers sit at computers on the ninth floor of the New York Fed building in lower Manhattan...
...Service Plan, General Motors, and the Teacher Retirement System of Texas....
...The price of copper, iron ore, sugar and corn have experienced the same trend....
...But the board of trustees that manages the social security trust fund recently estimated the fund would be depleted by 2036, meaning a cut in benefits of 23 per cent – or $270 (£167) a month on average for...
...US West Texas Intermediate crude, the more heavily weighted of the two, has suffered a record discount of $20 or more a barrel to its European peer, Brent crude....
...This followed Tuesday’s news that India’s central bank had bought 200 tonnes of bullion from the International Monetary Fund....
...They suggest he was endeavouring to keep up appearances, making the usual rounds of charity dinners, sporting events and industry gatherings and taking his regular summer vacation in the south of France....
...Wildcatters strike out As oil prices soared, the FT reported from Texas on an industry busily reinventing itself In February 2008, the FT featured a story about the Texas oilmen who made their fortunes...
...coal, iron ore, steel and other key resources....
...Hedge fund humour A sense of humour is as rare in a hedge fund as a pair of hush puppies. Centaurus Capital, the London-based hedge fund, has just bought both....
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