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...“Chicago has a tight business community, so it’s certainly disappointing that they all left,” Roger Hochschild, chief executive of suburban Chicago-based Discover Financial Services, told the Financial Times...
...“China has made huge strides integrating US technology in their ecosystems,” said Carlson, notably using US chipmaker Nvidia’s advanced artificial intelligence chips to collect and analyse data about the...
...So far it doesn’t seem like that,” says PS Sriraj, director of the Urban Transportation Center at the University of Illinois at Chicago....
...However, Amazon represents “a Goliath target” for labour organisers everywhere, says Beth Gutelius, senior researcher at the Great Cities Institute at the University of Illinois at Chicago....
...Beyond the lay-offs in Michigan, US Steel cut jobs in Gary, Indiana, East Chicago, Illinois, and the Iron Range of Minnesota, blaming “challenging market conditions”....
...which in turn led to the US model of the full-service investment bank....
...Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), an Atlanta-based exchange operator, also has an office and a data centre in the city....
...Experts in Singtel’s other security centres, from Sydney and Tokyo to Chicago and Warsaw, work closely with each other to provide round-the-clock service....
...Ford forecasts it will make margins of more than 20 per cent from these services. Few endorse these estimates....
...Nymex will exist as a legal entity and a brand, but the action will unfold in a secure data centre next to a bike path in Aurora, Illinois....
...Each converts its thousands of hours of real-world driving experience into data from which the entire fleet can learn....
...The short-range target is to set up 20 stores in Chicago and Miami, the Manchester and Brighton of the US....
...Among the top performers today are those with the sharpest focus on digital technology and advanced manufacturing, while cities that cashed in on the oil boom are showing early signs of being buffeted by...
...Markets: Australian stocks advanced to fresh five-year highs, but sentiment in Greater China markets dimmed after new home price data showed efforts to cool the mainland property market have yet to have...
...While some big storms blanketed the central US late in the month, they ended what had been a record-long snow-free streak for cities including Chicago, Omaha and Milwaukee....
...Net revenues, which fell 21.8 per cent to $683m in the period, were also hampered by a fall in sales of market data and information services....
...Charles Joynson is managing director of Wavedata, a UK pharmaceutical data business he cofounded in 2000....
...Before joining EA in 2011, she was director of employer development at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business....
...Advanced Technology Services (ATS), a manufacturing equipment maintenance company based in Peoria, Illinois, whose clients include Caterpillar, BorgWarner, Honeywell, Eaton and Textron, is finding it tough...
...According to a recent survey by recruitment agency Marks Sattin, nearly 8 per cent of financial services workers in the UK feel “very insecure” in their jobs....
...Last year it picked an Equinix data centre in Chicago to provide access to its markets for traders based in the US city....
...The business turned a profit almost from launch, helping it expand rapidly from Chicago to Boston in the spring of 2009, and then to New York and other US cities....
...“People value the flexibility more than the cost at the moment,” says Jeff Owens, chief executive of Advanced Technology Services (ATS), a manufacturing equipment maintenance company based in Peoria in Illinois...
...This has provided (very) slight relief for Illinois CDS levels (data from Markit; amateur Excel skills from FT Alphaville): But as you can see, this comes on the back of a steady rise, driven in part by...
...Long haul networks between the two cities have traditionally been built along train lines but avoided the deep woods and mountains of central Pennsylvania....
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