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...In his new gig, Ubben became a prominent backer of Nikola Motors, a maker of hydrogen-powered trucks. But the deal was a disaster....
...I even thought I dated a cowboy once, though he turned out to be just a guy with a southern accent who voted Republican and drove a truck....
...Citigroup has hired Dan McDow as global head of software based in New York. He joins from Credit Suisse....
...The price of diesel fuel that powers tractors, harvesters and grain trucks has also soared, with US prices at the pump rising 70 per cent in the past year to record levels of more than $5.50 a gallon....
...Far more plausible are the autonomous tractors Deere has made to roam empty fields performing seasonal work. Autonomous trucks, too, seem likely to have a bright future....
...The price of diesel, which farmers need to fuel their tractors, trucks and harvesters, has soared to almost $5 a gallon....
...He enrolled in New York Law School and clerked for a judge in the US Bankruptcy Court of the Southern District of New York....
...(Washington Post) The UK will ban the sale of diesel trucks from 2040, and VW says EU rules will make electric vehicles more profitable than petrol cars....
...(WSJ) News round-up Morgan Stanley to bar unvaccinated staff and clients from New York office (FT) Berlin under fire over attempt to interfere with Wirecard inquiry (FT) Jack Ma’s Ant in talks to share...
...Its organisers said in the New York Times that they would live by Google’s old motto of “Don’t Be Evil”. 2....
...In September the short-seller Hindenburg Research accused Nikola, the electric truck start-up that went public via a blank-cheque company earlier this year, of being an “intricate fraud”....
...With electric truck start-up Nikola, we’ll let DD readers make up their own minds. Nikola went public via a Spac in June with its founder Trevor Milton at the helm....
...One thing to start: in an interview with DD’s Ortenca Aliaj, Nikola board member and ValueAct founder Jeff Ubben defended the electric truck start-up and its founder Trevor Milton against allegations of...
...The dealmaking continued with the New York Stock Exchange owner Intercontinental Exchange’s $11bn purchase of US mortgage data provider Ellie Mae in August....
...For Amazon, the emissions challenge is not only its data centres — which have surged under Amazon Web Services — but also its fulfilment centres and delivery trucks....
...(New York Times) Loan sharks A controversial lending deal by Oaktree Capital Management has highlighted a conundrum facing leveraged loan managers....
...Local tech companies include Viber, a messaging app, and outsourcer Epam, which is listed on the New York Stock Exchange....
...(Bloomberg) Trump’s taxes, explained Bloomberg opinion columnist David Fickling helps break down Trump’s convoluted tax avoidance tactics, which were revealed by a New York Times investigation....
...The business is an unusual combination of trucks and tractors, and was itself spun out of Italy’s Fiat Chrysler by former chief executive, the late Sergio Marchionne, in 2012....
...In Florida, as evacuations began, governor Ron DeSantis said highway patrol officers would escort fuel trucks to help maintain supplies at petrol stations....
...Earlier on Thursday, Amazon said it planned to be carbon neutral by 2040 and would order 100,000 electric delivery trucks to help it meet that goal....
...We shake hands with most of the Messieurs Faiola, one by one, who warn us to avoid the protesting tractors....
...must in almost every facet of civic life — find a way around an absent government, with generators that come in all sizes: from the little roll-on suitcase-sized ones you see outside market stalls to the tractor-trailer...
...(New York Times) News round-up Blackstone is said to be in talks to buy Bellagio and MGM Grand (BBG) Elliott invests in CNH Industrials ahead of Iveco truck split (FT) Media group Endeavor plans to raise...
...The company said its Toyota division saw its best-ever month for light truck sales....
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