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...Al Natoor told Nikkei Asia in a recent interview....
...And, as lockdown measures are softened, the return of the likes of Gregg's, Starbucks et al to the UK FtG market will increase competition....
...It was not difficult to find admirers of Vingroup, whose logo — a V-shaped yellow bird against a red background — shares the colours of the national flag....
...Yasir Al-Rumayyan, the head of the PIF, even joined the company’s board....
...The Financial Times was more right than wrong about 2016 — superficially, at least....
...But the real fight goes far beyond the US and the fate of the TPP....
...The data can be stored in the sensor and synced to the app later, or transmitted in real time....
...I will discuss the economic effects of protectionism another time. —————————————————————————————————— Footnotes [1] Ricardo Caballero et al have published similar work, and John Cochrane has responded...
...For the local guys in those two monster segments, the threat has always been that Uber, Amazon et al can simply come in and eat their lunch....
...At one point he held a crisis meeting to figure out a way to fit the battery and speaker into the allotted space....
...We had almost no orders, except to make fun games,” he says, before qualifying the remark....
...have real-time data and analytics to improve their contracting processes and deliver better commercial outcomes.”...
...If you do have a compatible smartphone to tether it to, updating email and calendar is a lot easier, and of course you can get real-time notifications from apps and messages....
...Basically, another angry reflection of how important rising wages are to Abenomics’ success and how irritated Abe et al are at those big companies refusing to part with the extra yen Abenomics has brought...
...This year in books, accordingly, was always going to have an elegiac tone, so dominated by the centenary of the first world war that it often felt like we were commemorating its early stages in real time...
...Mr Obama’s Hamlet had turned into Henry V. There was no time to lose....
...Azevedo et al called it something different — “in the nature of a bribe”....
...Some post-Cyprus thoughts from Citi’s Buiter et al… first on rolling capital controls and the chances of a new Cypriot pound being forced into existence (our emphasis): The lack of internal convertibility...
...But his request to the UN last year was thwarted by an American threat to veto a UN resolution....
...The Good Lord Bird , by James McBride, Riverhead, RRP£16.99/$27.95 A zippy, irreverent novel set in the turbulent years just before the American Civil War, which mixes real and imagined characters and events...
...Optimists believe this time will be different because policies and institutions have greatly improved in the developing world....
...-based Johnson Controls Inc. that they ordered to suspend operations last month will remain closed through the end of the year, along with 14 more plants that also use lead, the WSJ reports....
...“A resolution will help, but there are other, larger issues at play. The local banks simply aren’t lending.”...
...Messrs Cable, Darling et al say they don’t care! They should. Moving key staff (100 or so) plus capital is relatively inexpensive....
...al at a national level....
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