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...“Close family members have died and I couldn’t go home for their funerals,” said Gul, a father of six, who lives with his family in a one-room shack in Islamabad....
...To start with, they represent a fifth of the S&P 500, with a market capitalisation of $7tn. As they go, the market will (largely) go....
...With the release of “Down Home Blues”, Waters transformed Black Swan and the history of American music....
...In Nexi’s home market of Italy, for example, electronic payments represent only 25 per cent of all transactions, and Rome has recently vowed to fight tax evasion by encouraging digital payments....
...Lest we forget, Warren Buffett made a cool $1m by betting that the S&P 500 would outperform a basket of hedge funds chosen by Jeff Tarrant, the founder and chief executive of Protégé Partners over a 10-year...
...We’ve written before about the corporate world’s growing propensity to add “tech” to the end of things in a bid to make themselves sound cool and modern and d i s r u p t i v e....
...Dast-e-saba — the hand of the morning breeze. Dasht-e-tanhai — the wasteland of solitude. Ku-e-dilfigaran — the street of the broken-hearted....
...And Dignity, the funeral homes operator, has buried the divi in advance of the CMA attempting to unpick its cartel with the Co-Op....
...Shares of PG&E continued their freefall on Tuesday after S&P Global Ratings cut the California utility’s credit rating to junk status, adding to investors’ concerns over the possible financial impact of...
...The telecoms sector trades at a low forward price-to-earnings ratio of 10.2 times, according to Jeremy Zirin, strategist at UBS, while he estimated the forward P/E of the communication services to be 18.6...
...Onwards:A buyout fund just bought company E, a terrific company, for 15x ebitda, a very high “headline figure.”...
...And Iovine’s gated house, situated in the same neighbourhood as Hugh Hefner’s Playboy Mansion, is a far cry from his childhood home in the Red Hook area of Brooklyn....
...Wall Street: “Let them sell their summer homes and jets and return those fees to their investors.”...
...the ultimate middle class home furnisher – “half the world away”....
...Among the accusations in the CFTC lawsuit is the claim that 3Red engaged in deceptive trading at least 288 times in CME’s Comex copper market in December 2011 and at least 285 times in the e-mini S&P 500...
...Affairs and then the International Assistance Unit of the Metropolitan Police Service of London, has supposedly revealed that Sarao’s manipulative trading of the e-Mini S&P 500 futures contract in Chicago...
...by a foreign buyout firm… “Huarong is attracting interest because it is one of the largest AMCs in China,” Ming Tan, a Hong Kong-based analyst at Jefferies LLC, said today by e-mail....
...OGX Petróleo e Gas, the oil company controlled by the country’s richest man, Eike Batista, has been one of the market’s most notorious losers, shedding about 87 per cent of its value over the past year to...
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...Barnes & Noble shares jumped 4.3 per cent to $14.97 after the bookseller said it would sell a 5 per cent stake in its Nook e-reader business to Pearson, owner of the Financial Times....
...Mumbai, home to India’s biggest companies including Tata Sons Ltd. and Reliance Industries, returned to normal a day after the city shut down for the funeral of divisive politician Bal Thackeray. http:/...
...The agreement would provide electricity for about 24,000 homes, the company said....
...Pulled up once by a policeman after a merry night in the UK, he would later recall with delight how the policemen spelt out all his syllables as he asked Hatendi: “Dooo yooou u-n-d-e-r-s-t-a-n-d E-n-g-l-i-s-h...
...Marshall Cavendish, and seen two Kindle titles reach its list of 2011’s 10 bestsellers....
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