2020 Financial News
21.11 / 02:41
UPS
FIVE
Strategy
2020
International
bowling
Looking for the smartest IPL auction strategy
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The Indian Premier League (IPL) laid out a level playing field through player auctions from the very outset in 2008. Every team has a fixed purse, ensuring that the richest franchises cannot dominate the league simply by buying the best players.
20.11 / 22:05
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UPS
Citizens
Election
Cree
2020
reports
Investigations
Randy Boissonnault out of cabinet amid business dealings controversy
Randy Boissonnault is out of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s cabinet after months of controversy surrounding his former medical supply business.
20.11 / 14:53
Provident
Southern
exclusive
information
2020
Interviews
International
Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan to co-own financial advisor Max Matthiessen
Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan (OTPP) agreed to acquire a co-control stake in Stockholm-based financial advisor Max Matthiessen from private equity firm Nordic Capital Ltd.
20.11 / 06:01
security
Apple
Freedom
Fishing
2020
boating
He rose to riches in Hong Kong. Now he’s a symbol of China’s crackdown.
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. HONG KONG—Jimmy Lai came to Hong Kong in 1961 as a boy smuggled on a fishing boat, a refugee who left mainland China because his mother was afraid he would starve to death in the turmoil following the Communist takeover there. He rose from child laborer to clothing tycoon and media baron, living in a colonial mansion filled with books and flowers.
20.11 / 06:01
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19.11 / 08:35
markets
CEO
Sky News
2020
reports
FCA's Nikhil Rathi registers interest for top civil service job - reports
According to a report from Sky News, Rathi has thrown his hat into the ring, having been appointed to lead the UK financial watchdog by the Treasury in 2020, succeeding Andrew Bailey. Should the regulator's CEO be successful, it would not be his first foray into political life. Rathi served as private secretary to prime ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown from 2005 to 2008, before moving to the Treasury for half a decade to become director of the financial services group. FCA's Rathi calls for new approach to UK private markets to boost competition The FCA declined to comment, ...
19.11 / 03:53
HANS
Trade
2020
reports
Courts
A Singapore oil magnate faces prison in a major fraud case over financing trade
A Singapore oil magnate has been sentenced to 17.5 years in prison for fraud and forgery in a case that prosecutors said has tarnished the city-state’s reputation as Asia’s leading oil trading hub
19.11 / 03:53
UPS
CEO
Nov
poverty
country
2020
Australian mine company to pay Mali junta $160 million after its CEO and 2 employees were detained
Australia’s Resolute Mining says it will $160 million to Mali’s ruling junta to resolve a tax dispute, more than a week after the company’s CEO and two other employees were detained in the West African country
19.11 / 01:29
markets
Citi
security
Analysis
Trade
Experts
2020
City gas cos' stocks in the red as govt cuts APM quotas
city gas distributors Indraprastha Gas (IGL) and Mahanagar Gas (MGL) were among the top losers in Monday's trading after the government cut their gas allocations under the cheaper APM (administered price mechanism) over the weekend. The move triggered a spate of rating downgrades by analysts, who are mostly advising investors to sell the stocks for now. IGL plunged 19.8% to ₹325, its lowest closing since March 2020. MGL tumbled 13.8% to ₹1,130.55, the lowest closing since June 2023. Gujarat Gas, which already derives most of its supplies at market rate, fell 6.8% to ₹452.5 on Monday.
18.11 / 22:31
markets
UPS
Digital
Strategy
Research
pandemic
2020
Quebec's Caisse de depot bets on quant strategies and is bullish to do more
Quebec’s public pension fund manager has grown its quantitative equity team to more than US$14 billion of assets in less than four years, and one of its top executives is bullish on doing even more.
18.11 / 22:31
UPS
Target
Aware
Platform
2020
reports
prevention
Canadians lose hundreds of millions to fraudsters each year — Can a new bank alliance prevent that?
Jan Martin always thought she was “careful enough” in handling potential scammers. The project manager in her mid-30s frequently changed her passwords and rarely picked up calls from unknown numbers. But her confidence levels took a hit last summer when she lost $3,000 to fraudsters in the space of just a few minutes.
18.11 / 21:07
COST
UPS
Booking
JetBlue
2020
travelers
Spirit Airlines files for bankruptcy amid financial woes
Spirit Airlines said Monday that it has filed for bankruptcy protection and will attempt to reboot as it struggles to recover from the pandemic-caused swoon in travel, stiffer competition from bigger carriers, and a failed attempt to sell the airline to JetBlue.
18.11 / 16:37
markets
UPS
Digital
Cooper
country
2020
China says it stands ready to deliver on Modi-Xi common understandings to improve ties
«China stands ready to work with India to deliver on the important common understandings between the leaders of the two countries, step up communication and cooperation and enhance strategic mutual trust,» he said, adding that he has no information on the specifics of the meeting of the leaders and officials. At their Kazan meeting, the two leaders endorsed the India-China agreement on patrolling and disengagement along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh and issued directions to revive various bilateral dialogue mechanisms, signalling attempts to normalise ties that were hit by a deadly military clash in 2020.
18.11 / 00:27
markets
COST
UPS
security
Strategy
2020
Vedanta’s tangled debt, dividends, demerger: Where do shareholders stand?
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Vedanta is one lucky company. It has a monopoly on nickel production in India, is the largest private crude oil producer and iron ore miner in India, has the lowest cost of production, and pays incredible dividends.
18.11 / 00:27
markets
COST
UPS
film
show
2020
rights
Is this stock the next big ticket for investors?
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. If you’d asked anyone before covid about the movie exhibition business, the answer would’ve been simple: single screens were fading and multiplexes were booming. And they weren’t wrong.
17.11 / 09:37
Citi
Football
wellness
2020
Sporting
rowing
Football’s “sleeping giants” should be cherished
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Football fans outside Germany may not pay much attention to the country’s second division. After all, Europe boasts a plethora of high-quality leagues and there are only so many hours in the day.
16.11 / 14:19
markets
UPS
Digital
Election
Experts
show
2020
From New Jersey to Hawaii, Trump made inroads in surprising places in his path to White House
Donald Trump's return to the presidency but the fact that he carried their northern New Jersey county, a longtime Democratic stronghold in the shadow of New York City. To Maria Russo, the woman pouring the drinks, the reasons behind Trump's win were as clear in the runup to the election as the shot glasses lined up on the high-top tables. A mother raising two kids on her own in Passaic County on a barkeep's income, she saw it not just in light of her own situation but those of the people around her.
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