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...She added that the banknotes, to be printed by the Bank of England, and the stamps, to be produced by the Royal Mail, would feature different designs....
...The top four banks to the conglomerate — JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley, Citi and Goldman Sachs — each reaped more than $700m since 2000....
...The US Federal Reserve and Bank of England are both expected to raise their base rates by 25 basis points, while the Bank of Japan holds off from tightening for now....
...Pincus in 2019 started a new holding company, MUSIC, with US bank LionTree. Goldman Sachs predicts music revenue will nearly double over the next decade, to more than $140bn....
...For Shamrock, which in effect took the opposite side of that bet, it must have been a tough item of due diligence....
...Its other shareholders are two kibbutzim, the Livnat family, and Shamrock Israel Growth Fund....
...David Pearce, a pupil at Queen Mary’s Grammar School in Walsall, designed the new “tails” side of the coin which will feature a rose, leek, thistle and shamrock emerging from a Royal Coronet....
...Time to dust off the shamrocks, Guinness hats and other tired clichés of Irish culture. Time also to admire the re-emergence of another Irish tradition — that of the fast-growing economy....
...Elsewhere on Wednesday, - So … didn’t Irish banks pass the stress tests in July 2010? - The ultimate shamrock shake. - A Treasury plan to fix the mortgage mess. - Insider trading, or not?...
...The Irish are understandably sensitive about tired leprechaun-shillelagh-shamrock caricatures being trotted out by foreign commentators....
...The Irish Times noted the dress the Queen wore to the banquet was adorned with 2,091 embroidered shamrocks, while a crystal-embellished Irish harp was pinned to the shoulder....
...Dallas-based cement producer Texas Industries lost 4.4 per cent to $36.76as Shamrock Capital Advisors, a fund that owns about 10 per cent ofthe company’s stock, announced that it was liquidating its funds...
...Mr Ahern enjoyed a friendlier reception at the White House, where he presented Mr Bush with his annual bowl of shamrock. But the Taoiseach also had a serious message....
...The Shamrock Holdings investment fund he heads has bought an 80 per cent stake in the famous basketball team....
...A tension between image and slogan, often revealed in retrospect, marks the most interesting badges: if you wore a swastika in early 20th-century Britain, it meant you saved with the National Savings Bank...
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