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...The French geographer Roger Brunet called the area the “blue banana” stretching from Liverpool to Milan....
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...But the dispersion of their returns has been very wide, as this chart shows: Amazon has barely outperformed the S&P 500, Nvidia has gone absolutely bananas, and the rest have covered the range in-between...
...“Israel is not a banana republic, but an independent and proud democracy that elected Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,” Likud said....
...The family company was a leading producer of bananas, among other exports....
...“Putin just doesn’t notice we’re turning into a banana republic without any bananas.”...
...Once-high flying institutions such as Credit Suisse, First Republic and Silicon Valley Bank crumbled and a drought of deals has caused mass investment banking lay-offs....
...In 1980, when 37 people died in the burning of the Spanish embassy in Guatemala City, and the M-19, a Colombian guerrilla group, held diplomats hostage at the Dominican Republic’s embassy in Bogotá....
...You see it in third-world countries — banana republics.”...
...Naturally, Trump blamed Biden for Friday’s ruling, calling it a “witch hunt” against the Democratic president’s political opponent worthy of a “banana republic”....
...Email Janan at janan.ganesh@ft.com Find out about our latest stories first — follow @ftweekend Letter in response to this article: Climate now threatens Europe’s ‘blue banana’ megalopolis / From Tobias...
...Investec has hired First Republic Bank’s Olivia Deroy for an origination and relationship management role on its new US private equity team, based in New York....
...Their bodies had been buried in a shallow grave in the banana grove. In those July days the sickly sweet smell of decay pervaded the entire city....
...After stinging criticisms from Schumer on Thursday, Netanyahu’s party Likud on Thursday called for “respect”: “Israel is not a banana republic, but an independent and proud democracy.”...
...We visited the towns of London and Banana, and were treated to a wonderful meal with entertainment by our hosts....
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...Built using materials often used or grown in the Democratic Republic of Congo — banana fibre, teak wood, raffia and rattan — the pieces began as loose hand sketches, which Mupangilaï rendered in AutoCAD...
...That Switzerland is a ‘banana republic’?...
...In the past five months, JPMorgan Chase bought First Republic; First Citizens Bank acquired much of SVB following its collapse; and New York Community Bank purchased most of Signature Bank, another failed...
...He is painted as a pimp in a banana-republic uniform, she as a peasant decked out in furs....
...The centre detests the perception that Switzerland is a hapless banana republic: failing to respect its own laws, retroactively adopting self-serving rules....
...You have the sea, you have the mountains and you have a lot of influence from north Africa – you can easily find a banana plant, or cassava....
...One way that has come is in the form of great deals on loan portfolios, as lenders look to boost their liquidity after the turmoil at First Republic and Silicon Valley Bank....
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