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...And that wasn’t the only mini-drama....
...Alleghany, a property and casualty insurance and reinsurer, has long been described as a mini-Berkshire Hathaway....
...Yet, as Charles Fishman wrote in The Wal-Mart Effect in 2006, Walmart derives all of its impact from us, “from our willingness to open our wallets, just a few dollars at a time . . ....
...Earnings Bumble Inc is expected to show a rise in fourth-quarter revenue, driven by strong growth in paying users for its dating apps....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on February 13 2021. ©2021 Nikkei Inc....
...The setting is Los Angeles, a low-rise beige-out of warehouses and mini-marts....
...Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway has provided a rare fillip to retail investors who face being wiped out by the collapse of London Capital & Finance, which pushed unregulated “mini bonds”....
...Reports of plans for 3,000 shops would give the company close to a tenth of the total US convenience store estate, excluding those attached to gas stations....
...Apple innovates like no other company on earth, and we are not taking our foot off the gas....
...Still, with the country’s mini marts and convenience stores poised for aggressive growth around the country this year — CP All Group is set to operate 11,000 stores by the end of the year — changing people...
...Chief among them: what to do with power markets that were never designed for millions of people turning their rooftops into mini power stations?...
...Wal-Mart owns Asda; Apple claims to have 6500 employees in the UK; BMW still has significant operations associated with its Mini brand; AT&T claims to employ almost 1500 people in the UK....
...Analysts at Citigroup earlier this week said they believed that the common equity at US oil and gas explorer Linn Energy was worthless. Its peak equity value was $11bn....
...By August 2015, the whole mini-boom was over with a rapid decline in prices for the entire group....
...Ranga, the manager of a nearby mini-mart who is reluctant to give his surname after criticising government policies, concurs. He recalls with a shudder the “crazy” years of hyperinflation....
...Exxon Mobil (Oil & Gas) 25. Royal Bank of Scotland (Finance) 26. AstraZeneca (Biotech & Pharma) 27. BG (Oil & Gas) 28. EasyJet (Travel & Tourism) 29. Burberry (Retail) 30....
...Officials have touted the Kyaukphyu special economic zone as a “mini-Singapore”, potentially providing a trade corridor between China, Africa and the Middle East....
...Chris Donat, an analyst at Sandler O’Neill in New York, says that investor demand this year has been sustained by a combination of high employment and low gas prices — both strong supports for subprime....
...of course I mean everybody in Wall Street, has been so fixated by the nightmare of the Big One, as in the next global financial crisis, that they have overlooked that we are in the middle of a series of Mini...
...It is a reminder, as a mini-reporting season for oil services groups commences, that, seen reductively, these are just contract labour suppliers....
...At the same time, Silicon Valley and the shale gas energy revolution are showing, once again, the power of the private sector to drive growth in the US....
...The robots resemble mini JCB machines and crawl under floors to spray foam-based insulation to the underside of floorboards....
...Amazon’s dream of delivering millions of parcels using mini-helicopters may still be some way from coming true, but the unmanned aircraft industry has scored a breakthrough after winning the first approval...
...GE does not expect to be much affected by the “mini-stimulus” announced by the government at the beginning of April, which was focused on areas such as railway lines and housing for low-income families,...
...It is more important to work with local retailers and distributors to get the product out to the mini-marts, small eateries and street stalls where lower income Indonesians spend their cash....
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