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...Occupy iterations popped up in cities all over the United States and around the world, from London to Australia, Rome to Nigeria....
...United States of Japan, by Peter Tieryas, Angry Robot, RRP£8.99/$14.99 Sometimes you just feel the need for a story about giant robots, virtual reality and sumo wrestlers....
...It is not immediately obvious that there will be closer economic ties with the United States, although Trump may well aim for that....
...The US central bank announced a quarter-point increase in the target range for the federal funds rate to 0.25-0.5 per cent, lifting it from the historic lows it has occupied since December 2008....
...scheme, customers would use local currency to buy an equivalent amount of digital cash – “Internet dollars”, say – from a bank....
...(WSJ$) Christie wants fugitive returned from Cuba The governor of New Jersey asked Barack Obama to demand that Cuba return a woman convicted of killing a policeman in his state 41 years ago....
...My spending plans in the last parliament reduced the share of national income taken by the state from the unsustainable 45% we inherited, to 40% today....
...-43.33 (-0.64%) at 6,730 CAC 40 down -66.16 (-1.53%) at 4,246 Dax down -186.20 (-1.94%) at 9,407 Currencies €/$ 1.34 (1.34) $/¥ 102.87 (102.79) £/$ 1.69 (1.69) €/£ 0.7932 (0.7928) Commodities ($) Brent...
...(Financial Times) “Chinese Bitcoin exchanges said domestic banks closed their accounts after the nation’s central bank barred financial institutions from handling transactions in the virtual currency to...
...the $55 billion lawsuit against the United States over AIG” (WSJ) From Patton Boggs to Bingham McCutchen, big law firms have a big revenue problem (WSJ) Monsanto at centre of intensifying debate on food...
...(Financial Times) OVERNIGHT MARKETS Asian markets Nikkei 225 down -251.09 (-1.79%) at 13,799 Topix down -17.05 (-1.46%) at 1,154 Hang Seng up +29.61 (+0.13%) at 22,571 US markets S&P 500 down -8.77 (-...
...(Bloomberg) China to invest in £650m Manchester project: The state-owned Industrial and Commercial Bank of China will invest in a new £650m business district at Manchester airport in a deal the government...
...(Financial Times) Luxembourg said it would exchange information with the rest of the EU about EU holders of bank accounts in the country....
...Art & Place: Site-Specific Art of the Americas, Various authors, Phaidon, RRP£49.95/$79.95 Another Phaidon coffee table-straining blockbuster, this curious, lovely book spans everything from pre-Columbian...
...It is the form in which central banks hold more than 60 percent of their foreign currency reserves…....
...The double-pronged Parkway deal demonstrates a degree of nimble-footed aggression that few expected from Malaysia’s state investment fund, better known as the custodian of the state’s shareholdings in...
...Where reckless behavior and a lack of responsibility led to crisis, we will not allow a return to banking as usual. 17....
...The data on the United States ‘real” trade balance consequently paints a far more discouraging picture. The real balance removes the impact of price changes from the data....
...Certainly the United States has been growing at a remarkable rate for the past 10 years, the sort of rates that we might think are more plausible in a catch up country, rather than one that was at the production...
...The numbers included seven months of profits from Adelaide Bank, which Bendigo bought in November last year. The bank expects to open a further 25 branches a year....
...of the Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Act by the United States of America Congress which outlaws Zimbabwe’s right to access credit from International Financial Institutions in which the United...
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