Hints and tips:
...A high priority for all concerned was to honour the dead as well as the living, something which the makers of Alive were unable to do by name....
...Iron ore has enjoyed a strong run over the past month, rising more than 17 per cent to $97.75 a tonne, according to S&P Global Platts....
...Its modern-style organisation made it “resilient and highly capable, a sort of do-it-yourself Shi’a para-state established in opposition to both the discredited government and the despised [Israeli] invaders...
...“I feel sometimes like these people who have spent their lives with elephants or dolphins and then after a while they create a kind of para-language . . . and it takes time to tame them, to create a kind...
...Here’s a para from the article:The Washington, D.C....
...The helicopter starts its descent from high above the rainforest in the Amazonian state of Pará....
...Current forecasts, based on the S&P index, predict company lifespans will drop to a historic low of 14 years over the next decade — a decline that would have been even more pronounced had it not been for...
...S&P Global Ratings has placed the ratings of 38 Brazilian financial institutions on negative watch amid a political scandal that rocked the country’s markets....
...Take a look at charts comparing the S&P 500 in 2011 with 2015, and with the exception of a little less volatility in 2015, the years are eerily similar....
...“Just because there’s a Trump victory in the US it doesn’t mean we’ll see a rise of populist policies across Europe,” said Paras Anand, head of European Equities at Fidelity International....
...Paras Anand, head of European equities at Fidelity Worldwide Investment, says Europe is stuck in a hinterland where the region remains unable to sustain even a modest economic recovery despite a decline...
...Later in the same message, the Analyst asked Cohen: “[I] don’t know if [Hedge Fund Manager A] or mat [Martoma] will answer, but do you think they know something or do they have a very strong feeling.”...
...[2482] . . .This is a case about what S&P did and did not do and whether any reasonable ratings agency could have so conducted itself....
...Meanwhile, if you want the real fireworks against S&P, and its “fundamentally flawed, unreasonable and irrational” analysis of the CPDOs — head to paras 2829 through 2836, and 2847 through 2856....
...Even more questionable than comparing GDP in current dollars is using a misleading exchange rate to do so....
...Three months ago, José Claudio Ribeiro da Silva and his wife, Maria, were on their motorbike, trying to navigate a dilapidated bridge on a remote track outside the town of Nova Ipixuna in Brazil’s Pará state...
...It plans to build a steel mill in Pará state, near its giant iron ore mine at Carajás, for a total investment of R$5.2bn (US$2.9bn)....
...“Even that chap from M&S who sits on the PM’s business council and looks like a stuffed trout?” “Even him.” “Get me Steve Hilton on the blower!” I cried, “You’re a genius!”...
...It is a mandate that we accept with humility and a firm resolve to do all that we can for the welfare of this nation....
...Their London friends are shocked by such a radical lifestyle shift, says Caroline. “They say: ‘What do you do there all the time?’ They think that we watch the grass grow.”...
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