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...“Battling the traditional world order is what we’re doing.” In less than a decade, Wood has emerged as the public face of a tech-driven bull market on steroids....
...However, junior employees were less than impressed with a UBS town hall meeting earlier this week where senior staff recommended exercise to de-stress....
...For all his success, Mr Hall still had unfinished business....
...“We view this as negative for the stock as the attempt by Third Point to create value for shareholders now through pursuing a sale of the company or a breakup of the business are likely off the table as...
...“I’m not as easily pigeonholed as people would like.” I try to keep pace on the wine, remembering that Farage once took two bottles of gin to an election debate at Methodist Central Hall....
...It is a common complaint among business travellers who regularly attend conferences....
...And Marriott, subject of the FCC legal tussle, is doing so from Thursday. This is not the same as offering no-charge connections to every guest. It excludes those who book through discount sites....
...“Payments is a huge business,” Tim Cook, chief executive, told an Apple product launch event on Tuesday. “We’ve created an entirely new payment process.”...
...Deutsche this month said it would axe 200 jobs worldwide as it abandons most of its commodities business. JPMorgan is seeking a buyer for its physical commodities business....
...Silicon Valley’s more wide-eyed start-up founders often pitch their ideas as “saving the world” – and genuinely believe that is what they’re doing, however mundane or minute the technical advances....
...business with the town again....
...“It’s all I seem to be doing at the moment,” she says....
...Nashville trip (what to wear, what to wear?)...
...Under the initial Lehman plan, some of which may be preserved in the new proposal, some creditors would probably receive more on the dollar than others, because they were doing business directly with the...
...Only someone just emerging from a lengthy coma would have swallowed Citigroup’s explanation for the sale of its Phibro commodities unit as “consistent with Citi’s core strategy of a client-centred business...
...The return of trading to the pits in pure electronic form – bringing high-speed action as conducted by All Options to a floor once given over to the leisurely business of pit trading – is the latest twist...
...Local opponents to the scheme have included the actors Steve Buscemi, Rosie Perez and the late Heath Ledger as well as a host of New York writers and personalities....
...“I remember walking out of this office one night and there were literally 20 auditors down the hall, poring through books and records. That was all we were doing – dealing with auditors....
...“He came over well as an individual, as a sincere guy.”...
...And he moved to the desert city for good in 1963 after robbers ransacked his Nashville home. Pearson was a rough character, but at the time poker was a rough business....
...But when you see puppets doing melodrama, spitting up blood and talking about how they were raped as children, that’s funny.” Can it be long before this chef-d’oeuvre turns up on BBC3?...
...But Mr Peek wants his employees to think about industry sectors as well, something rivals such as GE are also doing. “You'll see us gradually start to become more industry-focused,” says Mr Peek....
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