International Business
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Investor’s Lawsuit Accuses 777 Partners of $600 Million Fraud
The American investment firm 777 Partners, whose bid to buy the English Premier League soccer team Everton has been on…
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Berkshire Reports Drop in Profits but Formidable Cash Stockpile
Berkshire Hathaway on Saturday reported a sharp drop in first-quarter profits, driven largely by lower investment income, as the conglomerate’s…
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Is It Good to Go Exclusive?
Paramount’s proposed merger with Skydance has been the most tumultuous media deal in years. Now it has taken yet another…
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Got an Idea for a Toy? Toymakers Want to Hear From You.
Near the end of 2022, Lucas Bolt, an environmental artist and Lego enthusiast in Amsterdam, was working on a design…
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How Scammers Are Stealing Money From Food Stamps Recipients
Something was very wrong with Jackie Kirks’s food stamp card. While standing at the checkout line in a cavernous Albertsons…
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When a Bunch of Bloody Yanks Came for English Soccer
Edens isn’t daunted. Over dinner one night, he told me about a hotel that he recently built in Jackson Hole,…
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Billionaire Donor Barry Sternlicht Assails Brown’s Deal With Protesters
One of Brown University’s major donors, the billionaire real estate mogul Barry Sternlicht, on Friday sharply criticized the school’s agreement…
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Sam Ash Music Stores to Close After 100 Years In Business
Sam Ash, the family-owned chain of music stores that supplied countless beginners and working musicians with guitars, drums and other…
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Paramount Will Let Exclusive Talks With Skydance Lapse, Imperiling Deal
Paramount told Skydance that it would not extend the Hollywood studio’s exclusive window to negotiate a merger, two people with…
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Campus Protests Over Gaza Spotlight the Work of Student Journalists
Their updates come in harried bursts. Real-time narrations of the scene at Columbia University’s protest encampment in Manhattan, interspersed with…
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