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...News round-up Freshfields’ former tax partner sentenced to 3½ years in jail (FT) Zurich’s sale of $20bn life insurance book to PE-backed group collapses (FT) Sotheby’s cleared of art fraud in Russian...
...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....
...Bank of America is advising Sheikh Jassim on the Manchester United bid. Sheikh Jassim has long been in his father’s shadow....
...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....
...ADQ, a state holding company chaired by (you guessed it!)...
...The failure of one of Drexel’s biggest clients, the Executive Life Insurance Company, destroyed the retirement incomes of thousands of Americans....
...Now see the many state attorneys-general (acolytes, no doubt of Alito et. al.) who want to sanction corporations that adopt ESG....
...It provides a sort of insurance.”...
...Key economic and company reports Here is a more complete list of what to expect in terms of company reports and economic data this week....
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...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...
...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...
...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....
...Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
...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....
...adult over the age of 18: $1,000 a month, no strings attached, paid for by a new tax on the companies benefiting most from automation.”...
...“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....
...• Schroders, the $605bn London-listed asset manager, has appointed Marc Brookman to the newly created role of deputy chief executive, North America....
...The building is owned by Related Companies, founded by Stephen Ross, the billionaire and Miami Dolphins American football team owner. About 20 of the 107 units were reserved for low-income households....
...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....
...Like the pioneers with their sense of American exceptionalism, there’s a messianic fervour to California’s remaking of the world....
...To generalise a bit, right now the health insurance plans available in the United States tend to be generous for those who have them, covering most of the cost of even expensive treaments — but many Americans...
...And [the importance of] FDI in the United States can often be a blind spot.”...
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