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...TCI made $12.9bn for investors and ended last year up 33 per cent, ahead of the S&P 500 index’s 24 per cent rise....
...The benchmark S&P 500 ended the quarter down nearly 5 per cent....
...Costas Milas: I expect the BoE to raise its policy rate up to 4 per cent....
...¿Costa Dorada? Nunca....
...Costas Milas: Unemployment will continue to rise to (perhaps) as much as 8 per cent....
...C Specialist) Apple faces shareholder vote on human rights policies (FT) Villains or visionaries?...
...“The P&C industry typically has more touchpoints with the customer as policies get renewed every year,” says Yaron Ben-Zvi, founder of life insurance start-up Haven Life....
...Grettel Soto-Gonzales, is from Costa Rica and has worked in financial services in the US, Brazil, Mexico and Puerto Rico....
...It is unlikely that he will go much further unless a) financial crisis intervenes b) the election is brought forward or c) war is declared....
...Judge Griesa initially sided with Costa Rica and a panel of the Second Circuit affirmed....
...The company played down talk that Costa may be spun off. C&W Worldwide took on 1.8 per cent to 34½p on the back of an upgrade to “buy” from Espirito Santo....
...Vodafone , up 1.4 per cent to 171¾p, has until March 12 to table a firm offer for C&W Worldwide while other UK media companies and private equity funds have been linked to the telecoms group....
...F&C Asset Management was down 6.6 per cent to 68¼p after confirming that it expected Friends Life, one of its long-term customers, to withdraw all assets at contract expiry in 2014....
...C&W Worldwide rallied 8.9 per cent to 38p on a report that Tata Communications was to make a formal cash offer for the telecoms group....
...C&W has been a very strong performer in the past six months, rising 40 per cent. Whitbread was another bright spot amid the general doom and gloom....
...The counterbid came less than a week after Xstrata sweetened its hostile cash offer for Falconbridge to C$59-a-share from C$52.50....
...Thus Dubai has doubled up as a Costa del Sol for the British package holidaymaker, a seven-star destination for the super-rich global jet set and a parachute for Iranians and Saudis hedging against future...
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