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...IHC is chaired by Tahnoun bin Zayed Al Nahyan, known as TbZ....
...Now its flagship fund has orchestrated another shift in strategy, ditching externally managed funds to refocus on direct investments in companies and other assets, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani...
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...A rare mis-step came in 2011, when the St John group gathered new investors and headed into the hotel business, opening a hotel-restaurant version of St John on the edge of London’s Leicester Square that...
...Before that, on Friday, traders must contend with the US non-farm payrolls report, which if sufficiently robust may make a Federal Reserve rate hike in December even more likely....
...On China, much has been written about Beijing’s mis-steps in managing the exchange rate and intervening in the stock market....
...(WSJ) Jihadis kill 147 at Kenya university al-Shabaab gunmen attacked a college campus in the town of Garissa near the Somalian border....
...Non-farm payrolls are expected to show growth of 226,000 jobs, compared to the 223,000 reported in April. The jobless rate is expected to stay at 5.4 per cent....
...Discovery and Al Jazeera stretch far beyond the UK — do their long-term strategic ambitions merit betting the farm on the Premier League?...
...1970, cautioned the assembled owners of the 137-year-old bourse, which plays a pivotal role setting prices that affect producers and consumers from smelters in China to the copper wires used in US wind farms...
...The US will publish third-quarter gross domestic product numbers on Thursday, and the delayed October non-farm payrolls report on Friday....
...Contemporary photographs are juxtaposed with archive shots – Beatrix Potter at Hill Top Farm, for example....
...One of the most successful such ventures, is Shareyt.com, owned by Sharaf al Nomani....
...(Financial Times) - UK banks made commissions of up to 60% on mis-sold credit card insurance. (Financial Times) - Former Alphavillain John McDermott has a new blog....
...Abe et al are keen on ending deflation — but they are going to hinder that push with a fiscal tightening. No tension there, then....
...revelation is yet another blow for attempts by Antony Jenkins, Barclays’ chief executive, to clean up the bank’s image that has been tarnished by high-profile scandals ranging from Libor manipulation to the mis-selling...
...In gaming, Five Minutes’ Happy Farm went viral before Zynga’s FarmVille....
...The other one was Challenger, an investment vehicle of Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabr al-Thani, the prime minister of Qatar, and his family....
...There are now several al fresco eating areas and a pool with views of the medieval town of Sarnano....
...Ratings triggers, forced sales, systemic cliff risk, et al. Still a feature in some eurozone periphery bonds, despite the rally. Portugal for instance....
...Making its software work better on the new generation of mobile devices was a “bet the farm” bid for long-term relevance, said Al Gillen, an analyst at IDC....
...Bush, the Republican president in 2004, and his Democratic opponent Al Gore in the 2000 contest....
...Murad al-Katib, Alliance’s chief executive, explained: “We have to be able to control the quality and the flow of our goods to provide a consistent branded food product....
...Nigerian workers are flocking back to family farms. In Latin America, global competition has fostered productivity gains in manufacturing and non-traditional agriculture....
...Facebook targets huge IPO Facebook Inc. is inching closer to an initial public offering that it hopes will value the company at more than $100bn, according to people familiar with the matter, the WSJ reports...
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