Hints and tips:
...Saudi Arabia plans to launch a multibillion-dollar investment company within the PIF, two people familiar with the matter told the FT’s Samer Al-Atrush in Dubai and Samuel Agini, to scout more deals in the...
...Other vaccines being deployed include BioNTech/Pfizer, Oxford/AstraZeneca and the Russian Sputnik V jab....
...It plans to start manufacturing the Sinopharm vaccine this year....
...The sovereign wealth fund of the Kingdom of Bahrain, Mumtalakat, has appointed Khalid Al Rumaihi as chief executive. Before joining the fund in 2015, Al Rumaihi was a managing director at Investcorp....
...C.banner International, the owner of UK toy store Hamleys, said in April that it was considering acquiring an interest in the business....
...These include plans for operations in the US, India, China, Indonesia and Vietnam....
...For the local guys in those two monster segments, the threat has always been that Uber, Amazon et al can simply come in and eat their lunch....
...Basically, another angry reflection of how important rising wages are to Abenomics’ success and how irritated Abe et al are at those big companies refusing to part with the extra yen Abenomics has brought...
...That makes the timing post plenum all the more enticing as it suggests Xi et al might be very serious in their reform drive and willing to hurt those holders of Chinese capital for the sake of the wider...
...But, as Neil notes, things could have been worse without all that warehousing shenanigans from Goldman et al....
...(Bloomberg) - How Goldman (et al)’s aluminium warehousing cost American consumers $5bn in three years. (New York Times) - The commodities supercycle is still ending....
...As chairman of the emirate’s Dubai World holding company and a confidant of the ruling Al Maktoum family, he was one of the untouchables - Prufrock: Hotelier Hands empties pockets: The private equity...
...Books to furnish the smallest room, complete with quirky names (101 Uses For a Dead Cat, et al), are always in plentiful supply before Christmas....
...Worse, HMC et al could be doing this amid a strengthening won and a weakening yen. Hyundai is just beginning to shift focus from volume growth to serious margin enhancement....
...It also plans a third “new small family” group of cars, built in co-operation with Suzuki, its Japanese partner, to target emerging markets and “megacities”....
...What really happened at Northern Rock, Royal Bank of Scotland et al? This gives you a clearer idea....
...And this time it’s RBS et al on the back foot....
...In Florida, the crucial state where Bush’s margin of victory was just 537 votes, they gave him 250,000 more votes than they gave Al Gore....
...You can’t take something too violent and make a toy out of it for younger audiences” - Al Kahn, 4Kids Entertainment. • Less is often more: “Don’t do easy licensing to all the companies....
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