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...Driving down the eight hairpin turns of San Francisco’s tourist-ridden Lombard Street in a futuristic self-driving car sounds sexy, adventurous, even terrifying....
...And markets don’t seem to be factoring that in,” Prof Shiller says....
...For carmakers, used to engineering problems as they are discovered, factoring in the potential for cyber attacks at the earliest stages of the design process presents a culture shift....
...By April 2001 Enron had grown to be a $70bn energy market titan with interests in retail energy, distribution, transportation and even broadband. (It was the tail-end of the dotcom era after all.)...
...At eight years old and backed by more than $1bn of investment, the company is by far the oldest and best funded of its peers....
...The stock weighed on the Dow Jones Transportation Average, which was within sight of a 10 per cent decline so far this year....
...Mr Carlisle added: “LightSquared has had FCC authorisation to build its network for over eight years and that authorisation was endorsed by the GPS industry and fully reviewed and allowed to proceed by several...
...The report was endorsed by the US Department of Transportation and the Department of Defense....
...I can still see myself wearing it at a soirée for a semi-obscure literary magazine, raving about David Foster Wallace’s cruise ship essay in Harper’s to some goateed aspiring novelist, pulling on my Rothman...
...The IASB responded that it was “aware of the significant practical challenges” of moving to an expected loss model and for that reason it had opened an eight-month comment period on its proposals....
...Excluding volatile orders for transportation goods, new orders slid by 0.6 per cent. They were also down by 0.6 per cent after factoring out defence orders, which had fuelled February’s surge....
...And last week the commerce department reported that housing starts grew for the first time in eight months....
...Fifty-eight per cent of the companies also say they actively trade physical products with dealers....
...Merrill Lynch said it believed investors were factoring in the reality that there was little additional volume growth upside or margin leverage left in the semiconductor sector....
...Perhaps it was this early success that prompted GM’s 1964 Futurama, eight years after the first interstates started construction, to make ever-wilder forecasts....
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