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...Robots do not get sleepy, distracted or enraged. Nor will they drive drunk, talk on the phone or rush to get to work....
...Henry Fernandez When Fernandez engineered the spinout of Morgan Stanley’s financial benchmarking venture with Capital Group, indexing was a sleepy industry and the unit was valued at just $20mn....
...Unlike Connecticut’s Gold Coast, where prominent financiers like hedge fund manager Ray Dalio own expensive waterfront properties overlooking the Long Island Sound, the sleepy inland streets here are lined...
...Indexing used to be a sleepy business, often started by niche newspapers as a service to subscribers....
...The once-sleepy payments industry, which manages the back-end infrastructure that powers billions of transactions a day, has recently been woken up as new technology changes the way consumers make payments...
...The economic calendar is living up to the sleepy August stereotype (all times London): 09.00: eurozone June current account10.00: eurozone June construction output13.00: Poland July retail sales...
...But the banks of the Ettrick Water in the sleepy royal burgh of Selkirk is where Spark Energy, which has developed a niche in supplying rental properties, has settled....
...“For years it was a sleepy town full of mostly locals,” Reckson says. “But those days are long gone.”...
...Activist investors grew stronger in their attempts to replace chief executives and sleepy board members, ousting senior management in almost half of the investee companies they engaged with in 2012, according...
...Heijn retired two years after his brother’s death but rather than Monte Carlo or the Dutch Caribbean, he settled in a castellated mid-19th century mansion outside the sleepy English village of Pudleston,...
...The QIA, which has assets of about $80bn, has benefited from the country’s transformation from a sleepy Gulf backwater into the world’s largest exporter of liquefied natural gas....
...Ketchum, Idaho, is once a year transformed from being a sleepy ski resort town into a billionaires’ summer camp....
...Mr Shaibani’s rise has coincided with the return of the city’s established families, who helped previous rulers turn Dubai from a sleepy fishing village into a regional commercial hub....
...The merchants who helped the ruling Maktoums turn a sleepy fishing village into a regional trading and commercial centre have been quietly suggesting that heads need to roll....
...A Harvard and Princeton graduate who used his father’s money to win election as New York attorney-general in 1998, Mr Spitzer used that once-sleepy office to turn the financial services industry upside down...
...Born into poverty, he left school at 16 and went into the music business before shaking up the island’s sleepy broadcasting world with the launch of its first commercial television channel, gaining the reputation...
...Macao could not have dreamt of hosting such acts when it was a sleepy backwater. Not everyone is convinced that Macao will be able to match Las Vegas as an entertainment capital....
...Their forebear, Harrison Gray Otis, a lieutenant colonel in the Union army, went to Los Angeles following the civil war, where he built the Los Angeles Times and became a pillar of the then-sleepy town....
...Oslo may have the sleepy feel of a provincial backwater but in recent years the city on the fjord has been gripped by a latter-day gold rush....
...Ambridge’s sex and drugs lifestyle is a hit When the sleepy village of Ambridge started to spice up its image, pitching residents into homosexual relationships, steamy sex scenes and handing them drugs,...
...While some don't mind the roller-coaster ride of John Henry, other institutional investors are willing to pay a 3 per cent management fee and 20 per cent incentive fee to have the sleepy volatility of a...
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