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...The economic calendar leans heavily towards the state of Europe’s manufacturing and services sectors (all times London): 08.00: France manufacturing, services purchasing managers’ index 08.00: European...
...You know, I am not the United States of the past where we tell you where we are going to hit in the Middle East.”...
...(FT) US agents charged over Silk Road A veteran of the Drug Enforcement Agency and a computer expert for the US Secret Service were charged with stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars in digital currencies...
...yet to modernise India’s economy (Financial Times) OVERNIGHT MARKETS Asian markets Nikkei 225 up +508.22 (+3.50%) at 15,041 Topix up +46.83 (+3.98%) at 1,224 Hang Seng up +93.48 (+0.41%) at 23,117 ASX...
...(Financial Times) Johnson & Johnson is to pay more than $2.2bn in fines to US federal and state authorities for kickbacks and promotion of its medicines for diseases beyond their approved uses over more...
...Having one pregnant woman at the top— even one who looked like a whale— made the difference. Today in the United States, the United Kingdom, and the developed world, women are better off than ever....
...If this can happen in the United States, what on earth is going to happen to us? And so you had a complete collapse of confidence, and world trade fell faster than even in the 1930s....
...The average commute by public transportation in the United States is forty-eight minutes; the average commute by car is twenty-four minutes....
...Brent Crude (ICE) down -0.38 at 118.40 Light Crude (Nymex) down -0.39 at 97.66 100 Oz Gold (Comex) unchanged 0.00 at 1,585...
...CFM International, one of the world’s major aircraft engine makers, is a joint venture between Snecma — a subsidiary of Safran Group of France — and General Electric of the United States....
...banks and debt crisis: The overall picture is: Very limited direct exposure, a lot more capital in the system, a much stronger and more resilient financial system in the United States....
...He was also reported to owe tens of thousands of dollars in gambling debts to the Genovese crime family....
...The dollar stayed close to eight-year lows against the yen, but the South Korean won slipped to its weakest against the US currency for nearly two years....
...And that’s the deal you get in a bankruptcy court. Only two parties do all right—the secured creditors and the advisors. They get 100 cents on the dollar....
...Tuesday May 3 Forty-eight hours to go....
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