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...Twitter initially branded NPR’s account as “state-affiliated media” — a tag also applied to Russian state news agency Tass — but reversed the decision after the broadcaster stopped using the account in protest...
...Some Russian banks already operate the UnionPay payment system, including Gazprombank and Rosselkhozbank, said Tass....
...“It works perfectly,” he told Russian news agency Tass of the card issued by China’s UnionPay. “And it is accepted in a lot of places. In some sense, it will be more reliable than Visa....
...Russia’s sports minister, Vitaly Mutko, was quoted by the country’s Tass news agency saying on Tuesday that there would be more cases of Russian sports people using meldonium....
...“In these products a maximum of 20 per cent comes from real milk – the rest is a processed milk mixture with coconut, palm oil and other additives,” Mr Fedorov said, according to Itar-Tass, the state-owned...
...BarclayHedge, HFR and TASS (EurekaHedge and Morningstar) contain relatively more (fewer) defunct funds than alive funds....
...Online comments on a recent FT analysis of US newspapers’ troubles bid “good riddance” to the “regime apologists” writing “Leninist propaganda” for what they dubbed the American equivalents of Tass or Pravda...
...Although their work was restricted to the Tass database, they found the performance reported by this database corresponded strongly with that of several big hedge fund indices....
...Second Curve Capital, a hedge fund run by Thomas Brown, formerly of Julian Robertson’s Tiger Management, fell 6.6-8.5 per cent in its three funds in January, data provided to database Tass showed....
...HedgeWorld was set up by Tremont in 1999 - using data from Tass - for use as a research and marketing tool for the hedge fund industry....
...THIS IS SOMETHING I KEEP HEARING FROM HEDGE FUND PEOPLE SO IT WOULD BE GREAT IF YOU COULD FIND SOME RESEARCH ON THIS - TASS?/SOME BIZ SCHOOL? OR ASK PHIL COGGAN IF HE IS AWARE OF ANY RESEARCH....
...Global information provider Reuters traded 1.3 per cent higher at 428.25p after it said its financial analysis and research unit Lipper had bought the HedgeWorld and TASS database businesses....
...22.7bn) in the first quarter, according to Tass Research there are increasing concerns that the gilt may be tarnishing....
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