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...When Ms Rometty, 62, took over in 2012, IBM was riding high on hopes that it had become a dependable profit-generator that would not be disrupted by changes in the tech landscape, prompting a big investment...
...Other significant cross-border transactions in the period include Italy’s Atlantia and Spain’s ACS teaming up to jointly take over Abertis, the Spanish highway concessions group....
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...“It was like you had a commercial enterprise that developed a highway and then came up with their own coach service so blocked others from driving over the highway,” said Kees Verpalen, chief executive of...
...All remain keen to support growth in assets by attracting more deposits, which is seen by regulators as the most solid and dependable form of funding in the event of a crisis....
...As Maney writes: In the middle of last century, cars and highways made the world far more mobile. Many more people traveled to towns they didn’t know, and they needed places to sleep....
...While Citi pauses, Bank of America is pushing ahead with its new “express” branches in the US....
...Market Insight: Dependable stocks are cheap – and an opportunity The phrase “nifty fifty” conjures mixed emotions in those able to remember that particular episode in investment history....
...“West versus China” history has become a busy highway. Ian Morris had a wonderful book on long-term civilisational history out last year, Why the West Rules – For Now....
...If Beijing were ultimately to decide to jump on the Athens express, it could well turn out to be a case study in east-west co-operation....
...Good news for Ramsbottom, Lancashire, where the less-celebrated of those two highways reaches its northern end after only eight miles....
...Attendance at Round Rock Express games, averaging almost 10,000, has consistently broken records. J.J....
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