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...“Any kid with a mobile wallet in Kigali should now have enough to deal with the rest of the world,” he said, referring to the Rwandan capital....
...So to help our UK readers get in the mood, here’s a trivia question: what do Wirecard, Hertz and MF Global all have in common? OK, so maybe it’s a little niche....
...Nick makes some interesting points for those trying to make sense of what the rest of this year entails....
...It’s a new version of the “flatteners” women wore in the 1920s to craft a fashionably boyish silhouette....
...Success increasingly rests on organising companies around what people know and how easily they can communicate rather than where they sit in the org chart....
...The armed forces were starved of cash in the 1920s and 1930s. In 1932, the British army ordered just nine tanks — delicate four-tonners....
...This pivotal role in popular music goes back to the early days of radio in the 1920s, when big bands were feted acts....
...PIL, which began with two old Dutch freighters, has expanded to over 170 container ships serving the China market, as well as the rest of Asia and Africa....
...Today, 12 are held by museums and institutions and the rest seldom come to market: the last time one appeared at auction was at Sotheby’s in 2001, when it sold for $5.6m....
...Sears, the retailer, started as a mail-order company and only began building department stores when threatened by bricks-and-mortar retailers in the 1920s....
...But Lehman Brothers’ collapse in 2008, followed by the implosion of futures brokers MF Global and Peregrine Financial Group, shook confidence in the security of customer funds....
...Under the original agreement, Mars had the right to purchase half Mr Buffett’s stake starting Thursday, and the rest of it in 2021. Instead, it accelerated the purchase to gain full ownership....
...Five stand naked, in a mannered, recreational rather than defiant way; the rest lounge in black, languorous, resigned, linked through a network of poses and gazes....
...In the spring of 2013, Jobs’s successor as CEO of Apple Inc., Tim Cook, decided the company needed to borrow $17 billion. Yes, borrow....
...They live in an upscale suburb built in the 1920s by Jesse Clyde Nichols, a developer who had a big influence on US suburban housing....
...Sugar Hill was Harlem’s most comfortable neighbourhood in the 1920s, when it was named after the sweet life its residents enjoyed....
...The case for the big four is different, and rests on earnings growth. So far, analysts have been forced to revise estimates higher and higher....
...Diacono is no dilettante, though, and this is the one to pluck out from the rest....
...For the rest of England and Wales, prices are still 15 per cent below those pre-crisis levels....
...In the fourth quarter of last year the collapse of MF Global and worries over the eurozone debt crisis led to a precipitous 16 per cent fall in Jefferies’s share price....
...Liffe’s futures volumes are down this year, along with much of the rest of the market as low interest rates persist. That will not be the case forever....
...They comply with a structure established under the League of Nations in the 1920s....
...Bonus: she was made a saint in 1920. Although called a trial, the example of Joan of Arc is perhaps more similar to the proceedings that can take place after a miscarriage of justice....
...Jefferies reports earnings before many other investment banks, so its results often act as a harbinger for the rest of the financial industry....
...The failure of MF Global also still pains the industry. For many, certainty cannot come soon enough....
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