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...Wauters was a former professional footballer, who had represented Belgium and befriended Marilyn Monroe while playing in the US in the 1950s....
...Here’s what else I’m keeping tabs on today: Biden’s budget: The White House will release the forecast for the president’s fiscal budget for the coming year, including an increase of corporation tax and...
...(HT M&G’s Gregory Smith): Between January and November 2022, Cameroon’s government made late payments on long-term, foreign currency (FC) commercial debt constituting a selective default (SD) according...
...Between us, we’d like to think we publish a fairly decent amount of interesting articles....
...For W.M. “Rusty” Rush, boss of listed truck dealership Rush Enterprises, Gekko’s warning read better as a blueprint....
...Another insider cautioned against dithering: “Hand on heart, if someone said would you sell M&G at the price it is today, I’d say yes because it will probably be worth less in a year or two.”...
...Infrastructure equity performed better during years of weaker equity performance such as 2011, 2018 and 2022, according to research from M&G comparing the FTSE All-World index with the FTSE Global Core Infrastructure...
...The private sector needed to “put something together that stands on its own feet”, he said: “Between Aviva, L&G, Phoenix and M&G, we reckon we can get £50bn in three years that would invest in private equity...
...Leaving a job doesn’t mean you have to leave your co-workers Hello to you, reader. I’m Sophia Smith, the latest addition to the FT’s Work & Careers desk....
...I’m Patricia Nilsson. Alex Barker I’m Alex Barker. From Pushkin Industries and the Financial Times, this is Hot Money....
...They are professional patriots....
...I’m Lilah Raptopoulos. [MUSIC PLAYING] Lilah Raptopoulos Professional tennis has more suspicious betting than any other sport. In many ways, it’s a perfect hotbed for cheating....
...Web3 professionals to facilitate collaboration with a proprietary verifiable reputation metric, called “Bushido”....
...“September is going to be similar if not worse, and I’m struggling to imagine we get a turnaround in October . . . I’d be really surprised if we got back to 500,000 [gains] before November.”...
...But the bigger challenge is a deteriorating trade-off between output and inflation. So I’m not so cheerful!...
...I'm going to draw a little corn here. Oh, I was hoping you'd draw corn. Yeah, I have to draw a corn. I'm from Indiana. You know, it's amazing. I grew up in like miles of cornfields....
...I said, “I’m not Paul Smith, I’m Bill Nighy.” Unfortunately, he’d never heard of me, which put me in a spot....
...“L&G offers a 6.3% 2020E dividend yield, 1.2% above the sector average. Pre-2016 L&G's yield averaged 0.4% above the sector.”...
...“They were basically left for dead, by a lot of people who could have been saviours if they’d been willing to make hard decisions or fund losses,” he says....
...James Smith, economist at ING: A full 2021 recovery is unlikely....
...Here’s the full story from the FT’s Gregory Meyer....
...Top corporate law firms are re-training their M&A-focused attorneys — particularly early and mid-career — to gain expertise in restructuring....
...And D&G isn’t on $1bn China Railway Construction Corporation mandates, even if some of its top officials might enjoy the Italian company’s Domenico Mask sunglasses....
...“You didn’t quite have to swear that you’d go to church on a Sunday but it was a bit like that,” says Wood....
...The law firm Jones Day has added two partners to its M&A practice in Miami, Lorne Cantor and Evan Kanter, both of whom join from Greenberg Traurig....
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