Standard Chartered says investors representing 98.5 percent of its shares have signed up for its $5.3 billion rights issue, which will increase the Asia-focused bank’s capital ahead of tougher global rules. Standard Chartered said on Sunday that it had received valid acceptances for 256.7 million shares offered to shareholders. Bookrunners will sell the shares not [...]
This is the fourth in a series of 10 special Politics Daily columns to complement C-SPAN’s broadcasts this fall of audiotape recordings of some of the most famous and important Supreme Court oral arguments of the past 50 years. The C-SPAN broadcasts will afford most Americans their first opportunity to hear the actual words spoken [...]
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BMG Rights Management, the music publisher backed by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, continued its shopping spree, announcing Monday that it has bought Evergreen Copyright Acquisitions from investors including the private equity firm Trilantic Capital Partners. While financial terms weren’t disclosed, The New York Post, which reported the news before the official announcement, said the deal was [...]
George Soros, the billionaire investor and philanthropist, plans to announce on Tuesday that he is giving $100 million to Human Rights Watch to expand the organization’s work globally, Stephanie Strom reports in The New York Times. It is the largest gift he has made, the largest gift by far that Human Rights Watch has ever [...]
August 28 will mark the 47th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s seminal “I Have a Dream” speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. The occasion, however, will be marked by an orator of a decidedly different stripe standing at the foot of the memorial’s marble steps: Glenn Beck, frontman of the populist conservative Tea [...]
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