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...“We are convinced that we could have a big worldwide systemic risk claim on cyber,” de Courtois said....
...Soo Kim, a former CIA analyst now with the Rand Corporation, said Mr Kim’s announcement did not mean that North Korea was softening its stance....
...S&P Global Ratings estimated in February that the kingdom would borrow $29bn this year....
...These conflicting moods lie at the heart of one of Prince Mohammed’s biggest tests: can the de facto leader of the kingdom secure the buy-in of a bruised private sector to help reboot the economy and generate...
...S&P 500 futures notched a 0.6 per cent rise while the dollar index, a measure of the greenback against a basket of peers, was down 0.3 per cent....
...“Continuity could at least mean affairs of state do not take a radical turn from here, which would be de facto market-friendly,” said Ken Odeluga at City Index....
...The Trick to Time, by Kit de Waal, Viking, RRP£12.99 A woman reflects on a 1970s love affair in the follow-up to My Name is Leon....
...According to a “highly confidential” report on the gaming industry, Beijing believed the former Portuguese enclave had become a hotbed of CIA intrigue....
...This lavish monograph unravels how de Kooning lived by that romantic mantra, creating “visions of a temperament seen through nature”....
...With a narrative switch from Jason Bourne to Aaron Cross (Jeremy Renner), the product of a CIA programme who has been chemically enhanced to become an unstoppable killing machine, “we wanted to shake it...
...Lee Partners has bought Brazilian steakhouse chain Fogo de Chão for $400m as foreign investors fight over the country’s fast-growing consumer brands, the FT reports. http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/48e81926...
...Paul Thomas Anderson’s epic morality comedy – a tour de farce with a serious message – is surely, in part, an American homage to that Russian masterpiece about satanic charlatanism....
...After buying failed local bank PanAmericano earlier this year, Pactual has also pushed into non-financial sectors, partially funding retailer Pão de Açúcar ’s recent merger offer for Carrefour’s Brazilian...
...When he tracks a CIA operative who has vanished in Russia, he swiftly finds himself getting out of his depth....
...The MI6 memo’s author congratulates Mr Koussa on “the arrival of Abu ‘Abd Allah Sadiq”, a nom de guerre for Mr Belhadj....
...Following a 39 per cent fall in 2008, the S&P 500 index ended last year 24 per cent higher and 65 per cent above its low in March....
...Nol’s shares fell S$0.02 to S$1.53 on Monday....
...“Their fear is that this CIA operation will be repeated in Russia. That is why Putin doesn’t see the Russian opposition as a real opposition, but rather as a fifth column.”...
...InBev is currently valued at more than 18 times forward earnings, a 20 per cent premium to its European beverage peers (excluding S&N, which is about to be taken over)....
...The S&P energy sector matched a volatile day for oil prices and settled in negative territory after a loss of 4.8 per cent last week....
...Last week he won a showdown to emerge strengthened in his job. A slumping economy would put him back in the line of fire. Brazil?s economic stability linked to Palocci?s fate Go there Bolivia?...
...European governments must take a principled stand on the issue of human rights as a key part of the global strategy for combating terrorism, Gijs de Vries, the European Union?...
...But one apocryphal story had him escape with the collusion of the CIA at a time when Mr Doe was at the height of his cordiality with the Reagan administration....
...A new wrinkle in the Plame affair? An intriguing new theory has emerged in the case of Valerie Plame, the outed CIA operative....
...s merger of Belgium?s InterBrew with AmBev of Brazil as the brewer unveiled strong full-year profits and forecast further sustainable growth in 2005 and beyond....
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