Hints and tips:
...One company alone, the Shenzhen-based BYD, which is backed by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, has soaked up a staggering 38 per cent share of those sales....
...For instance, Mark Bradford’s projects to foster youth and art in his native South Los Angeles; Kehinde Wiley’s “Black Rock Senegal” project in Dakar; Theaster Gates’ community-building in his hometown of...
...It turned out Brassler had a lot to lose — over $15m, which he has been ordered to pay as damages to his former business partners at Carbon Fund, Rick Nagel and Brandon Bradford....
...Small Talk often quotes Warren Buffett’s thesis that a business with a bad reputation will always trump a management with a reputation for brilliance and isn’t so sure....
...“The banks are looking at their future loan book and, post Brexit, they can see a decline in new mortgage lending . . . so they don’t need as many deposits, said KPMG partner Warren Mead....
...Warren Mead, a partner at KPMG and head of the professional services firm’s UK challenger banking practice, says consolidation among the larger names such as Virgin Money and, eventually, Williams & Glyn...
...Warren Buffett made a huge profit by investing in Goldman Sachs in 2008 because he had liquid assets at a time when others didn’t....
...He replaced formal education with inspiration from the biographies of “Richard Branson, Warren Buffett, Bill Gates and Ratan Tata”....
...Sir Ken told chief executive Dalton Philips at Wm Morrison’s annual meeting in Bradford on Thursday that although he kept cattle, “You have a lot more bullshit than I do.”...
...Remember Northern Rock and Bradford & Bingley – two pure retail lenders bailed out by the UK government during the crisis?...
...M&T Bank, the regional lender part-owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, is buying Hudson City in one of the biggest bank deals since the crisis....
...Bodyguard: Hostage, by Chris Bradford, Penguin, RRP£6.99, 432 pages Bone-crunching action adventure from the author of the Young Samurai series....
...The rights are often quaint: foreshore and wreckage (over seafronts and shipwrecks), free warren (sporting rights) and riparian rights (over riverbeds)....
...They should be prepared to inject equity into vulnerable institutions by buying stakes with preference shares, as the investor Warren Buffett has done with Goldman Sachs....
...Buffett snaps up NRG stake Billionaire investor Warren Buffett has bought a stake in NRG Energy, the US power producer, and sold most of his shares in brewer Anheuser-Busch, it emerged Friday....
...She lives in New York with her husband of 43 years, Robert Bradford, a film producer. Where did you grow up?...
...Bradford & Bingley would have been another case in point....
...“When markets begin to deteriorate, you don’t see it immediately,” says Bradford Smith, president of the Foundation Center....
...Although small, the endorsement from billionaire investor Warren Buffett is nonetheless significant....
...Sector watchers said AIG was not an obvious buyer, but said that Warren Buffett might be interested in the group....
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