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...“They’re all drinking from the fire hose out there right now.” The company faces a tight labour market, Koos said....
...But exchanges, now for-profit companies, increasingly rely on sales of market data to generate profits as volumes stagnate, squeezing trading companies that need a fire hose of data to survive....
...A fire hose of information is no guarantee of quality. Even the best-informed traders make mistakes, as shown by high-profile losses in soyabeans last year....
...Berkshire Hathaway Inc....
...In 2000, Mr Banerjee founded AccelChip, a specialty software company that sold to Xilinx, a chipmaker, last year. In 2004 he started Binachip, another software group....
...Commodities get grown in the Midwest, get shipped to the west coast and then sent to the biggest demander, China....
...Morgan Stanley advised School Specialty. Bank of America, Deutsche Bank and JPMorgan are financing the deal, which is expected to close in October....
...Mr Tanner says: “What happens with a lot of foods is that they start in their ethnic groups then move into specialty food stores.”...
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