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...Thanks to a horde of western bond refugees desperate for yield they cannot find at home, the developing world’s corporate bond market has exploded over the past decade....
...People working at the NYSE Arca floor in San Francisco’s financial district, for example, should avoid public transport and must be subject to a medical check on entering the building....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on July 4 2018. ©2018 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...It is home to some of the world’s biggest and oldest high-frequency traders....
...● Lex: Toshiba — fool me once ● Henny Sender: Question mark over Toshiba shows Japan Inc strains Elliott’s activist campaign turns into war of words It was both a busy and acrimonious week for the US...
...Reinventing the wheel Goodyear has unveiled a spherical “concept tyre”— the Eagle 360 — which it says will shape all transport in years to come....
...Uber faces the threat of a ban in its home state of California, as it clashes with regulators who introduced pioneering ride-sharing rules in 2013....
...“It started out being more Segway than runway,” says Mr Brunner, referring to the ill-starred electric scooter once hyped as the future of transport....
...Their business just didn’t work if they had to give up their manifests for last-mile transport. Once they decided they were coming to Africa, they were all in....
...the US’s second-largest defence company by sales, wants to increase its foreign presence from 24 per cent to 30 per cent in the coming two years, as US orders for military aircraft such as its C-17 heavy transport...
...Critics say the company has stumbled in executing its ambitious plans to grow out of its European home market and expand into emerging markets....
...Growth prospects at home are shrinking....
...“Our competitors get into these brand wars like Coke v Pepsi,” says Zimmer at UTA....
...There could be no better venue for the French group to promote the new generation train that has taken 10 years to develop than in the home turf of its German rival Siemens....
...For many top executives, the private option remains the most reliable, flexible and time-efficient form of transport, which few would want to forgo, particularly when body searches by security guards and...
...Many visitors to Urban Golf also travel on public transport, so are unlikely to commute in plus fours and baggy cap, Day adds....
...Now there is an unforeseen economic risk that your customers and shareholders may have a moral objection to the greater [use of] transport that is taking place,” she says....
...Concrete examples of rising inequality, such as Robert Nardelli’s severance package from Home Depot, mean that talk of globalisation’s benefits has little resonance with many western workers....
...Mr Greenberg and Edward Matthews, president of C.V....
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