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...Last year was exceptional for Europe Inc in terms of growth, profitability and business expectations....
...When China last week set out a list of US exports threatened with retaliatory tariffs, almost all fossil fuels were covered, including oil, coal and liquefied petroleum gases such as propane....
...The second is that the industry as a consequence has long depended on auxiliary services — such as insurance, fuel surcharging and catching customers out on T&Cs — for profitability....
...Formerly outgunned by cashed-up giants, Mr Li was now being pestered by thrifty gnats. Then, two years ago, he had an internet-inspired epiphany....
...(FT) Journalism v Silicon Valley The media has lost control of production and distribution to the opaque algorithms of Google and Facebook....
...The RD180 engines that powered the Atlas V rocket off the launch pad were built not by one of the US’s domestic aerospace companies but by Russia’s NPO Energomash, currently maker of some of the world’s...
...In the 1960s, rocket scientist Wernher von Braun, a former Nazi SS officer who had developed the infamous V-2 rocket during the second world war, was working for Nasa, the US government’s National Aeronautics...
...But he expects people to be more careful, particularly with credit cards that helped fuel the explosion in consumer borrowing ahead of the downturn....
...“Now when fuel prices are cheap it makes it much better for Jetstar,” says Mr Epstein....
...market, forcing buyers of the heating fuel to pay higher prices....
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