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...News Corp shareholders believe that the sum of News Corp’s parts — which includes Dow Jones, book publisher HarperCollins and a majority stake in the Australian property listings group REA — is worth less...
...Since his Citigroup exit, Klein has maintained a relatively low profile, acting as an adviser to chief executives, corporations and governments on major transactions....
...While chatting about Davos, deals and the Dow Jones, he described the past few months of rising asset prices as a mere “window” of opportunity for corporations....
...That valuation applied the premium multiple of the rival New York Times to Dow Jones’s superior profits....
...On today’s episode, we examine whether Johnson & Johnson’s Texas two-step manoeuvre is setting a new precedent for corporations to evade accountability in America....
...This issue is important because, for a long time, corporations have been the only consistent net buyer of US stocks....
...listed on the Dow Jones Industrial Average in 1961 only three are there today....
...It targets directors of US corporations, who are facing competing forces. “On one hand, they have stakeholders who think companies are not doing enough for sustainability....
...This is an edited extract from “Signs: Photographs by Jim Dow” published by the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City....
...The inclusivity of modern Disney is, by contrast, blandly mainstream: the everyday stuff of a corporation seeking to maximise reach. In 2023, that much can mean war....
...That has left Lachlan, chief executive of Fox Corporation and executive co-chair of News Corp, in the same position as his father once was....
...There’s also Dow Chemical, which faces 9,000 claims tied to cancer. Michela Tindera More eyes will be watching how J&J’s case unfolds. It’s caught the attention of members of Congress....
...News clip 2 Dow down, S&P down, Nasdaq down . . . News clip 3 Biggest point drop in history . . . News clip 4 . . . ending another week in the red....
...The chemicals giant is writing the latest chapter in its complex history with plans to buy Rogers Corporation, a materials maker for electric vehicles and defence electronics, for $5bn in cash....
...The 190-strong American Chemistry Council group, which includes ExxonMobil, Shell, and Dow, is trying to water down the initiative....
...Moral Money took a look at MSCI’s ESG scores for the Dow 30 companies. Sixteen companies’ ESG scores increased and four companies’ scores went down....
...One person close to S&P suggested that it was “not a surprise that many of the largest corporations have also purchased ratings”....
...She sped up a plan to remove silicones and PEGs, or petroleum-based compounds, from Caudalie’s moisturisers and cleansers....
...S&P Dow Jones Indices and MSCI have launched a consultation on a potential revamp of the widely followed Global Industry Classification Standards (GICS) that determine which sector each company is placed...
...The world’s largest PET producer, Indorama Ventures, received a $300m loan from the International Finance Corporation to help it expand its PET bottle recycling capacity to 750,000 metric tons a year by...
...Howard Silverblatt, senior index analyst at S&P Dow Jones Indices, said companies were becoming more confident in their outlook, even if uncertainties remain....
...Senators Sherrod Brown and Ron Wyden want to levy a 2 per cent excise tax on stock buybacks by US public corporations....
...“But the earnings do matter,” said Philip Toews, president of the asset manager Toews Corporation....
...And, as the second-best performer among Dow 30 companies this year, Microsoft has helped fuel ESG performance in 2021 and 2020. But Microsoft’s lofty ESG reputation took a hit on Tuesday....
...After all, Bancolombia was ranked as one of the world’s most sustainable banks by the Dow Jones Sustainability Index in 2020....
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