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Message : Required fields BOSTON (Reuters) - Activist investors have ramped up demands for operational fixes, refreshed boards and sales of lackluster businesses in the last few months of 2020, a rush that will continue into the new year, bankers, investors and others said. Investors like Paul Singers Elliott Management and William Ackmans Pershing Square Capital Management paused earlier in the year when the coronavirus pandemic first disrupted supply chains, displaced workforces and made ...

Gov. Mike DeWine and lawmakers on different pages during lame duck session: Capitol Letter Updated Dec 16, 2020; Posted Dec 16, 2020 Ohio Governor Mike DeWine met with members of the media at Burke Lakefront Airport in Cleveland on Monday, October 19, 2020 to talk about the rise in Covid-19 cases in Ohio. David Petkiewicz, cleveland.comDavid Petkiewicz, cleveland.com Facebook Share Rotunda Rumblings Diff’rent strokes: As the 133rd Ohio General Assembly’s session nears an end, Gov. Mike D...

Capitalism forward By Bill Sims Contributing columnist The great Greek biographer and philosopher Plutarch, wrote that “The imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.” Perhaps an argument could be made that much of the social and economic tension in America today is a reflection of the increase in income and wealth disparity in our nation. To be clear about the difference in these two factors, income inequality is a measure of how unevenly income...

Maybe William Ackman had the right idea after all. Twin Citians have a propensity for defending hometown employers, even if outsiders have better ideas. We tend to paint such strangers as bad guys—politically and through clever internal and external PR campaigns that turn employees and reporters against them. And sometimes, they really are bad. Other times, our biggest-small-town-left-in-America naiveté gets the better of us. Take Target Corp. Shareholder activist William Ackma...

focused on credit when it comes to their hedge funds. well talk to john burbank of passport capital. >> been a busy conference so far. >> jeff chronicle may be the smartest man on wall street. the guy saw it all coming. if theyd let him stay at merrill lynch, merrill lynch would be king right now instead of swallowed up. futures once again had that soft tone despite the good claims number. european action looks like this. bank of england did hold steady on rates but the bank of korea...

took time to transfer ownership to his successors, which led romney to continue to be listed in various positions in the s.e.c. filings. well, the obama campaign pounced on the story, calling it the, quote, big bain lie. obama deputy campaign manager stephanie cutter charged the presumptive republican gop nominee that he may have even engaged in illegal activity by misrepresenting his position at bain to the s.e.c. a romney spokesman called the insinuation a, quote, new low for the oba...

bain capitals ceo long after he was supposed to have left the company to run the olympics in 1999. it named romney as chief executive three years after he took the olympic job. the paper said documents filed through 2002 listed romney as, quote, sole stockholder, chairman of the board, chief executive officer and president. during the period due to losses of investments as well as investigations of outsourcing have occurred. his campaign insists he was no longer at the firm and wasnt p...

company to run the winter olympics in 1999. the globe named findings that romney as chief executive three years after he took the olympic job. the paper said documents filed through 2002 listed romney as, quote, sole stockholder, chairman of the board, chief executive officer and president. well during the period in dispu dispute, many of the job loses due to investments as will as outsourcing occurred. romneys campaign insists as of yesterday he was no longer at the firm and wasnt par...

subsidiaries in ireland, netherlands and other low tax nations legally side stepping billions in taxes. a study by a former treasury economist saying that apple paid 3.3 billion in cash taxes globally on heres the big number, $34.2 billion in profits last year. a tax rate of only 8.8%. hope will any well talk about that. and phil falcone facing a deadline to reach a debt deal. if not, the wireless telecom faces possible bankruptcy. holders of light squared roughly $1.6 billion in debt ...

>> susie: good evening, everyone. a nasty day of selling here today on wall street. stocks tumbled, and so did commodities like gold and oil. and once again, tom, investors worried again about europe, the u.s. economy and jobs. >> tom: susie, the anxiety rose on word that a key bond sale in spain went poorly. thats raising concerns about that countrys financial health. also today, a report from a.d.p. the payroll processing firm showed that american businesses added 209,000 jobs in mar...