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The nation’s rapidly changing regulatory climate is creating a new landscape for R&D and manufacturing service providers

$204 million of the gross originations were allocated to affiliated or third-party funds and $22 million consisted of unfunded commitments. Over 60% of this quarter's gross originations were on existing borrowers that we know well and over 85% were on exited transactions which allows us to have greater control over the loan structuring and monitoring process.

Four Chinese tycoons transferred more than $17 billion into family trusts late last year with the ownership structures all involving entities in the British Virgin Islands. The moves come as China’s super rich brace for the possibility of the government going after the wealthy to push through tax cuts for the lower- and middle-classes this year.

In December, Parexel struck a new collaboration with Eli Lilly to launch a clinical research learning and development program in China to “bring high-value training opportunities to China’s clinical trial sites and investigators, enhancing the execution of local clinical trials.”

Yes. And, Chris, what I'll say is given our cost position though, we're going to expect to continue to run at high utilization rates at our sites. And it's just the question of how we place the product where, what region, what application, and we'll continue to drive the best outcome for the business.

So the trade we are making is we are giving up a little bit of upside of earnings expansion in an environment where rates continue to rise, but quite frankly what we are gaining is in the down side because we have forcing our assets that we had net interest margin expansion at the time you most need it, which is in a downside where you have credit, where you have credit issues. And so some of that net interest margin expansion really offset -- has the potential to offset your credit issues.

"Even if I don't feel 100 per cent, I pretend I am," she tells me, pointing out that she's only missed one engagement since she began teaching in China. In 2014, she kept an engagement to speak in Shanghai before 3000 guests, after earlier breaking her arm in several places in Hong Kong. She postponed the operation on her arm until after the speaking event.

Coats is, by all accounts, a nice guy. One of the tougher questions at his confirmation hearings, from Senator James Lankford of Oklahoma, began this way: “You’re one of the nicest people I’ve ever met.” Lankford wasn’t sure that was a good thing for the DNI to be; he wanted reassurance that Coats could be “tough.”

They're making progress in AFFE and 3% rule as always it's been top of our issue. So the way we think about the 3% rule is not shockingly the industry has been mixed, which I would say the underperformers in the industry have viewed the 3% rule as a way for the remaining trends.

Simplicity is the defining trend. Consumers demand great usability and purpose. The best innovations will be those that can break down barriers and deliver functions that combine convenience and usefulness in everyday life. Tencent’s mini-programs within WeChat typify this – at the end of 2018 it had 200 million daily users and a million apps covering everything from e-commerce to coupons to membership programs and event management. Great functionality that shows tech is everyday, for everyone, in every way.

But Madrid are eyeing a swap deal for Juve's current left-back star Alex Sandro, whereas the Bianconeri would rather sell him for a decent fee.

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.B) is the biggest investor in Kraft Heinz. It owns nearly 326 million shares. Following the huge drop Friday, that stake was worth about $4.3 billion less than what it was on Thursday.