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...Eshelman made his fortune — hundreds of millions of dollars, according to Forbes — in pharmaceuticals....
...Across eight rounds, attendees were tested on their knowledge of esoterica ranging from bond king pornography habits to ’00s pop royalty. Unfortunately, Bloomberg won....
...The pound fell 4.7 per cent to $1.035 against the US currency in Asian trading, the lowest since the decimalisation of the currency in 1971....
...He didn't really want to be extradited to the United States, but I think after a short period in jail in the Bahamas that idea became a little bit more appealing to him. He was flown to the US....
...“No other president in the history of the United States will be like Trump,” one club member tells me. “Trump’s the president. He runs the country, but he’s also the king....
...When people talk about two different tech sectors, that doesn’t help anybody, I don’t think it helps the United States and it doesn’t help China. So I think we want to be in one, always....
...seven years....
...At worst, it is in the hands of incompetent politicians, with a good example being the seven-week-long experiment in “Trussonomics”....
...Iranian businessmen tell apocryphal tales of middlemen traversing the region with suitcases packed with hundreds of thousands of dollars; of developing a complex web of trading routes; and setting up offshore...
...All this is cheaper than waiting for disaster and then rebuilding: the World Bank estimates that every dollar spent on flood defences yields returns of $7 to $10....
...CAC 40 unchanged 0.00 (0.00%) at 5,317 Dax unchanged 0.00 (0.00%) at 12,861 Currencies €/$ 1.18 (1.19) $/¥ 113.01 (112.10) £/$ 1.34 (1.35) €/£ 0.8818 (0.8818) Commodities ($) Brent Crude (ICE) down -0.30...
...The dollar index tracking the US currency against a basket of peers was flat at 93.515. Oil prices were pulling back from gains made in the previous session....
...The customer services team said were open until 7:00, but in fact it closed at 6:00. And there are many complaints that came through....
...The dollar index, which tracks the currency against a basket of peers, was up 0.1 per cent at 96.81....
...“It is an extremely important counterterrorism platform for the United States; within striking distance of two active affiliates — AQIP [al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula] and al-Shabaab in Somalia.”...
...CAC 40 up +98.99 (+1.95%) at 5,183 Dax up +146.00 (+1.26%) at 11,771 Currencies €/$ 1.09 (1.09) $/¥ 124.08 (123.61) £/$ 1.53 (1.54) €/£ 0.7105 (0.71) Commodities ($) Brent Crude (ICE) up +0.51 at 62.57...
...In fact, nearly one-quarter of adults in the United States have been fired or threatened with job loss for taking time off to recover from illness or care for a sick loved one....
...It acts as a middleman, connecting thousands of restaurants with consumers who want to be able to shop around on one platform....
...(Financial Times) IPOs in UK head for best year since crisis reaching $7.16bn this year – more than eight times the amount raised by the same stage in 2012, according to Dealogic....
...Together with the collapse of power and transport infrastructure, the latter has seen large numbers of factories close and hundreds of thousands of workers lose their jobs....
...But just how over-cooked, we found out on Thursday when it fell 7.3 per cent. Paul notes that falls in the Nikkei >7 per cent are few and far between. There was the Tsunami, of course....
...Having one pregnant woman at the top— even one who looked like a whale— made the difference. Today in the United States, the United Kingdom, and the developed world, women are better off than ever....
...In early May, Glencore promised hundred of millions of dollars of extra savings above previous targets....
..., while the government has spent billions of dollars on educating an elite of tens of thousands of Saudis abroad....
...If this can happen in the United States, what on earth is going to happen to us? And so you had a complete collapse of confidence, and world trade fell faster than even in the 1930s....
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