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...When he wrote on his website, “I believe in the United States of America. I believe in a strong national defence....
...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...
...Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
...The boom in debt issuance by corporate America has been good to S&P Global, the largest credit rating agency. Its shares have jumped a fifth in 2020, far outpacing its namesake S&P 500 index....
...(FT) US biotech hit by security reviews Chinese venture capital investment in US biotech companies fell 60 per cent in the first half of this year as Washington tightened scrutiny of funding from overseas...
...Tikehau Capital has hired Nithin Johnson, the former Americas head of international fund distribution at Citigroup, as an executive director of business development based in the firm’s New York office....
...Prosecutors allege Mr Low, an understated man with extravagant tastes, diverted $3.5bn from 1 Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), the state-owned development fund, to spend lavishly on high-end Manhattan...
...For a company like Rural that is traded on a major exchange, ―[t]urnover measured by average weekly trading of . . . 1% would justify a substantial presumption‖ of market efficiency. 5 Bromberg et al., Bromberg...
...(FT) In the news Turning point for UK tech Andreessen Horowitz, the US venture capital group that backed Facebook early on, will invest $58m in TransferWise, one of London’s most high profile tech start-ups...
...Beenz said the funding included $39.5 million from investors such as Gruppo l’Espresso, the Italian media group, ING Barings and venture capitalists....
...The depressing effect on real interest rates in the United States and other markets integrated with the US will depend on the scale of these capital inflows....
...Now here he is on a blast from the past… It’s Allied Bank International v Banco Credito Agricola de Cartago et al....
...Catch up on their findings, which include the curve trade that never was, the whale and the P&L, the CIO’s Kodak moment and much much more, in the CSI:CIO series here....
...Yet Abu Dhabi, the wealthy capital of the United Arab Emirates, is not banking on immunity. Instead, it has been creating its own stress, the FT reports....
...Srei set to raise $500m abroad for India VC fund Infrastructure finance company Srei will soon be raising a $500m venture capital fund from global investors, to be deployed in domestic projects, a top company...
...If the deal goes through, the hotel chain will manage the latter’s proposed second luxury hotel at Worli in Mumbai, persons close to development told ET....
...They were issued in the name of the Société Trans-Golf pour le Commerce et l’Industrie. The business was registered in Baabda, next to Beirut, and owned by Mr Ezzedine....
...www.cassina.com 5 TV Sofa Bokja One of my personal highlights from December’s Design Miami was a preview of the Al-Sabah Art & Design Collection, the new design venture from Sheikh Majed Al-Sabah of Villa...
...Argent Classic Convertible Arbitrage Fund L.P. v....
...Chop Suey: A Cultural History of Chinese Food in the United States By Andrew Coe Oxford University Press, £15.99 The story of America’s love-hate relationship with Chinese food, from the first American...
...Entertainment was provided by British comedian Al Murray and a colourful troupe of can-can dancers....
...The MoU has continued to form the basis for calculating the tax payable by the private joint venture partners - including Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) - and the sharing of oil revenues between...
...Given a lack of defaults, the instruments should perform fine if one can survive the P&L volatility of the tranches....
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