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...Instead, many asset managers have embraced direct indexing — when individual investors create their own bespoke benchmarks — by either constructing their own custom indexing platforms or simply buying a...
...As last year, fair organisers confirm that they have been granted bonded status, enabling overseas visitors to save on advance customs taxes....
...Protesters picketed the company’s headquarters in Palo Alto this summer over a contract with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement....
...At the global aggregate level the economy has already breached several key environmental thresholds, such as with climate change....
...First, they offered retailers a simple technical solution for the ability to offer free gifts in return for custom and loyalty: the stamp....
...Aggregate household debt balances were unchanged in the second quarter at $11.85tn, according to data from the New York Federal Reserve, and remain more than 6 per cent below the pre-Lehman peak....
...“It had a huge impact on my business,” says Mr Patel, who now gets 90 per cent of his custom through the site....
...In December, Technology and Science Dynamics Inc/ArmtabTechnologies Company, an American-Armenian joint-venture, announced the first tablet and smartphone made-in-Armenia....
...According to data compiled by analysts at Nomura, RBS has launched an aggregate £23.6bn of debt buybacks over the past two years, with Lloyds buying back £6.4bn....
...In other words, deleveraging has finally come to China Inc....
...Triple-A rated US corporate bonds have returned almost 6 per cent to investors over the past 12 months, according to Barclays Capital’s aggregate credit indices....
...It also has a cadre of “tobacco control officers” working to introduce such novelties as tobacco-free weddings (Chinese weddings come with an odd-sounding custom whereby the bride does the rounds of the...
...Our air freight, when it caught up with us, had been plundered by customs officers. The movers had no explanation....
...Nuclear engineers in America today have become like custom car mechanics....
...VVM Group operates two cement grinding mills with a combined capacity of 1.5m tonnes in Belgium and two ready mixed concrete plants in Belgium and France....
...By contrast, the average watch costs SFr2,212, based on 2010 figures from Swiss customs – the only aggregate industry data available....
...Stuart Gulliver’s decision to pay tax in the UK should be of interest only to Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs. What matters more to HSBC investors is that the new chief executive sticks to it....
...It only took 48 years but the juggernaut that is Walmart finally showed signs of grinding to a halt in the fourth quarter....
...Hence the centrepiece of the new services is Vodafone People: an address book that lets customers aggregate their phone numbers with contacts on social networks such as Facebook and instant messaging forums...
...The worst case scenario will see networks grinding to a halt, with untold effects on business productivity and competitiveness....
...In 2007, high net worth individuals increased their wealth 9.4 per cent to an aggregate $40,700bn while their numbers rose 6 per cent to 10.1m....
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