Hints and tips:
...Foxtons FY, Fresnillo FY, Greggs FY, Hiscox FY, Inchcape FY, IWG FY, Johnson Service Group FY, Keller FY, Reach FY, Ross Stores Q4, SIG FY, STV Group FY, Target Corp Q4, Thales FY, TKH Group FY, Travis Perkins...
...H1, Smurfit Kappa H1, Starbucks Q3, Toyota Q1, Travis Perkins H1, Uber Q2, Weir Group H1 Wednesday Chinook Therapeutics special meeting of shareholders to vote on the proposed acquisition of the company...
...Monday France, President Emmanuel Macron opens the Paris Motor Show Germany, Chancellor Olaf Scholz greets Spain’s King Felipe and President Frank-Walter Steinmeier hosts a state dinner for the royals...
...The Biden campaign has built a “special litigation team” that includes former solicitors-general Donald Verrilli and Walter Dellinger, assisted by “hundreds of lawyers”, according to a campaign official....
...(The New Yorker) Billy Walters The Sin City sports gambling legend was nailed in an insider-trading scheme said to have made him a $40m fortune....
...He points me towards the Instagram feed of a builder he often works with, John Perkins: “He posts a concrete pour and it’s incredible to watch.”...
...Smart reads The rise and fall of KP Kleiner Perkins used to be the first port of call for any Silicon Valley start-up looking for funding, now the venture capital firm has found itself on the edge of irrelevance...
...But, according to Mary Meeker, a partner at venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins and former Wall Street analyst, that is set to change as they are forced to find new sources of growth....
...Pao unsuccessfully sued the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers for discrimination....
...It recounts her working life at the Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and the events leading up to the lawsuit in which she alleged gender discrimination....
...The Econocracy: The Perils of Leaving Economics to the Experts, by Joe Earle, Cahal Moran and Zach Ward-Perkins, Manchester University Press, RRP£16/$22.95 This book is the product of a campaign that began...
...The last word, however, goes to Walter Scheidel’s The Great Leveler , a sobering history of inequality....
...The Great Leveler The Great Leveler, Walter Scheidel. Boy, that looks great. Yeah, you'll need another retreat to read that. It's quite a chunky volume....
...They are Perkins’ daughter Terri Robinson, 35, and her brother-in-law Brenn Walters, 43, who is also known as Ben Perkins....
...Walter Loeb, a veteran retail consultant, is predicting that its sales dropped 25 per cent....
...Robert Walter, chairman of Travis Perkins, said: “We believe that there is a strong strategic rationale for the acquisition of BSS, which will create the leading plumbing and heating trade and retail distribution...
...Joe Biden and Chris Dodd should be Grumpy Old Men, except they are much cheerier than Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau....
...Walter O’Haire, San Francisco Tom Perkins: I am not sure. But the struggle between fear and greed will never end its cycles....
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