Hints and tips:
Related Special Reports
...The incumbent Sierra Leone People’s party claimed a first-round victory for Bio despite reports by international and local observers of widespread irregularities....
...Western Alliance said on Wednesday that total deposits had risen to $48.8bn from $47.6bn at the end of March....
...The Kimberley Process is the global body set up two decades ago to eliminate trade in conflict diamonds following a UN general assembly resolution due to international alarm at “blood diamonds” from Sierra...
...Treason convictions can carry lifetime imprisonment penalties, according to Sierra Leone’s penal code....
...Sierra Leone — the location of Britain’s largest slave trade fort — appears physically, emotionally and spiritually in his films....
...Mohamed Konneh, chair of the Electoral Commission for Sierra Leone, announced that Bio of the Sierra Leone People’s party had taken 56.2 per cent of the vote while his main challenger, Samura Kamara of the...
...Annual inflation in Sierra Leone surged to 43 per cent in April driven by soaring food costs....
...“We have to ask [western partners and investors] to inject more development-oriented funding,” said Kamara....
...Several staff members at the British High Commission in Sierra Leone have been suspended on suspicion of defrauding the UK government of about £2mn....
...On Wednesday, New York Community Bancorp on Wednesday reported it had taken losses on commercial property loans, which rekindled fears about weakness in US regional banks....
...In the past three weeks, Japan’s Aozora, Deutsche Bank and New York Community Bancorp have all flagged potentially large losses due to their exposure to the US office market....
...Western Alliance is paying a dividend this month. But hey, Mercury’s in retrograde. Maybe that’s why....
...Western Alliance’s shares reversed earlier losses and were up just over 1 per cent in early trade....
...trading statement and AGM, Galliford Try trading update, Just Eat Takeaway Q4 trading update, Liontrust Asset Management Q3 trading statement, Prologis Q4, Rathbones Q4 trading update, Safestore FY, US Bancorp...
...Bah and Jalloh’s parents are from Sierra Leone....
...There are also 56 banks with either west or western in their names, including First Western Bank based in Booneville, Arkansas, a city in the south-east of the US....
...PacWest, Western Alliance, Comerica and Zions Bancorp were among the US regional lenders swept up in a fresh round of sell-offs Tuesday....
...A rebound in deposits at Western Alliance Bancorp, one of the midsized lenders that was seen as the most at risk after Silicon Valley Bank collapsed last month, buoyed US regional bank stocks on Wednesday...
...Western Alliance surged 13 per cent to $35.70, and is up 37.7 per cent over the past five days. PacWest Bancorp jumped 18.3 per cent and Zions Bancorporation was up 11.4 per cent....
...Some banks have done better than expected: Western Alliance shares bounced 20 per cent on Wednesday after the Phoenix-based bank’s CEO said it had $3bn of deposit inflows in the past few weeks, partly compensating...
...Cussons was formed in Sierra Leone in the 19th century. Nigeria is one of its fourth most important markets and the biggest in Africa....
...Among other regional lenders, Western Alliance shed 8 per cent, First Horizon and Comerica dropped about 4 per cent and Zions Bancorp fell almost 3 per cent. Read more on PacWest here...
...Kennedy-Wilson focuses on multi-family and office properties in the western US, the UK and Ireland. It is also headquartered in Beverly Hills....
...Western Alliance fell 15.1 per cent....
...Ben Jealous, the executive director of the Sierra Club, called the ruling a “historic victory” to ensure a liveable future for all generations....
International Edition