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Franklin Beats All Rivals as Investors Put Stock in Top Global Bund Funds
Bloomberg
The ratio was 1.2 percent for BlackRock, which became the world's biggest money manager with the $15.2 billion acquisition of Barclays Global Investors in December 2009. Baltimore-based Legg Mason had a ratio of 0.7 percent. The number is calculated by ...
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Dubai international visitor spend to hit $7.8b this year
Khaleej Times
CB Richard Ellis recently ranked Dubai among the top 10 most popular business locations in theworld with more than half of the biggest global conglomerates operating offices in the city. The rankings compared global cities by the number of ...
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Going global - a new breed of executive MBA
Forbes (blog)
By MATT SYMONDS The world's top full-time MBA programs have enjoyed several years of rising applicant numbers, fuelled by the struggling economy and strong international demand, notably from Asia. But with an improving global jobs market, many schools ...
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One South Africa Bank bigger than nine top Nigeria banks – Banker
Vanguard
The low level of capitalization of Nigerian banks, when compared to international standard, is a challenge to regulators who are at the moment busy fragmenting the industry. The Banker Magazine, in its benchmarking of the top 1000 global, ...
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Top 8 Cities by GDP: China vs. The US
Business Insider
A McKinsey Global study estimated that from 2007 to 2025, the China region's 225 cities included in the study alone will contribute an estimated 30% to the world's projected increase in GDP. (See Graph) Shanghai Composite Index was up by 92.1% since ...
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No retail major in rush for India foray
Business Standard
Early responses from top international chains are lukewarm or guarded to the likely opening of the multi-brand retail segment in India. Even as the Cabinet may soon take up the proposal of allowing up to 51 per cent foreign direct investment (FDI) in ...
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Plane in Guyana Crash Slid off Runway
Wall Street Journal
Some safety experts, including Gunther Matschnigg, the top safety official of the International Air Transport Association, have said such runway issues may account for as much as 45% of the overall safety risks facing the global industry. ...
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DEALTALK-Global banks squeezed in Australia as bond volumes drop
Reuters
Australian lenders are both rivals and key customers for global banks as they rank among theworld's top bank bond issuers. The four banks are forecast to borrow about A$90 billion ($99 billion) in the current financial year, most of it in US dollars ...
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Top lawmakers seal US debt deal but hurdles remain
Reuters
Despite that, markets showed signs of relief after becoming unnerved in recent days as lawmakers neared an Aug. 2 deadline to raise the limit on America's borrowing or risk the world's largest economy running out of money to pay its bills. ...
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Bhutan not able to attract foreign investment
Kuensel, Buhutan's National Newspaper
The world bank survey pointed out lack of infrastructure as a major reason for poor performance in the investment sector despite doing well in terms of peace and political stability. Large transnational companies which form the majority of global ...
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Genting Group is betting on Miami as future resort destination
MiamiHerald.com
It's part of their long-term aspiration to be one of Top 3 global gaming companies.” Genting Malaysia Berhad, the subsidiary that purchased the Miami land, announced plans in 2010 to focus oninternational expansion. The move came as growth slowed at ...
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Stocks Rising 12% Before Elections Since McKinley Celebrate Budget Impasse
Bloomberg
“Treasuries are still the safe haven asset, which creates this perverse thing where you get people buying Treasuries because of concerns that in part stem from the Treasury market,” Russ Koesterich, the San Francisco-based global chief investment ...
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Industry needs to trim the fat
aircargoworld
Air Cargo World readers may feel that this is a bit over the top; the airfreight industry has faced problems before and has always come through. But this time I think the conditions are different and potentially more serious. A few weeks ago, ...
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Latest News : The rise of the dragon and its lessons for the Turks
Tehran Times
The first half of the twenty-first century will see more debates on China's growing influence on worldaffairs. Shifts in power on a global scale clearly concern regional actors like Turkey. Because like all medium-sized powers, Turkey has to study the ...
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Global economy: Debt default cloud hangs over US job market
Economic Times
Borrowing costs for Italy, for instance, soared at the country's latest bond auction. Austerity measures appear to be taking a toll on many of the economies they were meant to help, and a report on euro zone unemployment is expected to show a steady ...
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Li Na Nears Top Earner Sharapova With $42 Million in Endorsement Contracts
Bloomberg
By Danielle Rossingh - Sun Jul 31 23:38:20 GMT 2011 Li Na, the first Chinese player to win a majortennis title. Photographer: Feng Li/Getty Images Li Na, the first Chinese player to win a major tennis title, is set to become the world's second- ...
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Will US spark another global shock?
Philippine Star
If Congress does not raise the debt ceiling, Treasury debts would be reassessed and could be downgraded from its top AAA rating, which is regarded as the gold standard for creditworthiness. A downgrade could be “extremely damaging” for the US and world ...
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World Cup bump evident at Independence turnstiles
Delaware County Daily Times
The Independence took down Atlanta, 1-0, and racked up their top gate this season. Perhaps the attendance tally demonstrates how greatly the leaders of Women's Professional Soccer's standings table have benefited in a World Cup year. ...
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International markets news
Sydney Morning Herald
With the clock ticking on the August 2 deadline, when the Treasury says it will run out of cash,global markets are looking to Washington, where the White House, Democrats and Republicans have failed to agree a deficit-cutting plan. ...
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Ryan Lochte of the U.S. Wins 400m Medley, 5th Gold at World Championship
Bloomberg
Photographer: Clive Rose/Getty Images Ryan Lochte left the world swimming championships with five gold medals as the US claimed more than a third of the available titles in the last major globalmeet before next year's London Olympics. ...
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Al Jazeera's New Goal in Sports
New York Times
Mr. Gourcuff, Mr. Diarra and Mr. Hazard are stars of the Ligue 1, the top division of the French professional soccer league. In June, Al Jazeera acquired the rights to show Ligue 1 matches in France, signaling an escalation in the broadcaster's global ...
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One Man's View: Fedor Not the Best Ever
Sherdog.com
I hope his career ends here with some semblance of that magic intact and no real-worlddemonstration of what it would look like. The argument against Fedor being the best ever will pick up steam over the next two to three years. ...
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Etisalat boss receives top telecom award
gulfnews.com
He has overseen many of the company's major achievements and led etisalat into new markets through a number of expansions and global investments in Asia and Africa. Under his leadership etisalat has positioned itself among the best international ...
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Ennis rounds off top weekend by making strides in long jump
The Independent
The 6ft 6in 20st new big thing of British athletics might be fourth in the global scheme of things but when it came to the UK Championships he was unable to make the top four. In fact, a first-round effort of 58.67m was only good enough for fifth place ...
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Trialists battle it out at ASP PRIME Nike US Open
Global Surf News
“I'm just trying to get points and get back in to the top 100, whatever that takes. I'm super stoked to get in to the main round.” Maxime Huscenot (REU), 19, 2009 ASP World Junior Champion, rebounded from his early exit in the Nike US Open Pro Junior ...
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GLOBAL: Do rankings promote trickle down knowledge?
University World News
Governments and universities must stop obsessing about global rankings and the top 1% of theworld's 15000 institutions. Instead of simply rewarding the achievements of elites and flagship institutions, policy needs to focus on the quality of the ...
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Compuware Expands the Industry's Largest Global Performance Testing Network in ...
CFO World
Compuware solutions make the world's most important technologies perform at their best for leading organisations worldwide, including 46 of the top 50 Fortune 500 companies and 12 of the top 20 most visited US web sites. ...
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Mobeep to expand its Business in Overseas Market
India Infoline.com
According to Mike, Mobeep's expansion strategy will be based on the concept of 'glocalization'; fusing language compatibility with the latest mobile technology, thus providing global users with localized content for a more enjoyable, effective and ...
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Belarus As a New Yugoslavia on the Global Arms Market?
Belarus Digest
Secrecy is a major feature of military equipment and arms markets throughout the world and the Belarusian government is too famous for withdrawing any possible information. There are regular unproven speculations on its alleged breaking some rules or ...
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Potter of Gold: 'Deathly Hallows, Part 2' Passes $1B
Reuters
The film has now earned an estimated $318.46 million domestically and an estimated $690 million on the international side for a worldwide total to date of approximately $1.008 billion, already making it the top-grossing film in Warner Bros. ...
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Scandal threatens Murdoch empire
The News Journal
With all the fallout, Murdoch's business has to change in significant -- and unwanted -- ways," Useem said, noting that dropping the BSkyB bid and closing the News of the World were majorconcessions to crisis management. "I have to give them credit ...
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Oil climbs more than $1 as US reaches debt agreement
Reuters
... (Reuters) - Crude climbed more than $1 on Monday, sending Brent above $118, after US President Barack Obama said congressional leaders agreed on a debt deal to avert default, improving the prospects for oil demand from the world's top consumer. ...
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Samsung home appliances awarded for excellence in 'Global Customer ...
By faizan
It is a very disturbing news about our siting and ex MNAs and a Senator involved in these anti Pakistan activities. It is a heinous crime and the government is reluctant to expose them, very strange and equally criminal on the other hand. ... CJP is not showing restraint in his latest move because he believes in restraint. It is only & only because the Executive seemed to have moved to take a strong stand. During his address to the Parliament, the PM must remain polite ...
Pakistan Today | Latest news,...
Top 10 Art Museums | Live Stock Trading News | Equities, Forex ...
By Shayne Heffernan
LTN's Top 10 museum destinations, in no particular order; 1. Washington, D.C., USA Here is modern history, architecture, art, religion, aerospace, or even. ... Posted by Shayne Heffernan on Jul 31st, 2011 and filed under Art & Collectibles, Connoisseur's Club, Latest News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response by filling following comment form or trackback to this entry from your site ...
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Sen. Angara Pushes For Reform To Philippines' Department of ...
By Tiffany Chua Copok
Home » Top News » Sen. Angara Pushes For Reform To Philippines' Department of Science & Technology. By Tiffany Chua Copok August 1, 2011. During his keynote speech at the S&T Stakeholders' Summit on July 29th at the SMX Convention Center, Mall of Asia, Pasay City, ...Angara highlighted the recent INSEAD The Global Innovation Index, which evaluated 125 countries representing 93.2 percent of the world's population and 98 percent of the world's gross domestic product. ...
AsianScientist.com | Asian Science,...
Deal in sight, global markets look up to Monday
Stocks will rise if the deal looks to be on track and will fall if news leaks that it might be in trouble. If the deal fails to pass in Congress, he said: "The rally will be torpedoed." A deal would remove amajor source of something investors hate: Uncertainty. ... Treasury bonds have long been considered the world's safest investment and are a top holding of the largest pension funds in the U.S., millions of Americans who own mutual funds and many foreign governments. ...
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Sci-fi prophet wraps high-tech trilogy - MAARS News
By Valkyries
MAARS News Global - The Hot Breaking News, Sport, Financial, Entertainment, Politics and everything on the headlines. Top Global Headlines! ... That bit of wisdom from Hubertus Bigend, the brilliant Belgian billionaire at the center of sci- fi author, William Gibson's latest novel, “Zero History.” Bigend (pronounced Bayh-jhan) is the morally ambiguous mastermind behind a global marketing operation, the Google of trend forecasting. He's a “cool hunter,” reminiscent of ...
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Obama unfurls 11th-hour deal to avert US ... - Pattaya Daily News
By jan
WASHINGTON, August 1, 2011 - US President Barack Obama announced Sunday that he and toplawmakers had reached an 11th-hour deal to avert a first-ever US debt payment default that would have sown chaos across the world economy. ... Business and finance leaders have warned default would send crippling aftershocks through the fragile US economy, still wrestling with stubbornly high unemployment of 9.2 percent in the wake of the 2008 global meltdown. ...
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Global economic crises driving gold price rise | China business news
By CBN
Global economic crises driving gold price rise. The global crises could continue to drive up the rising price of gold, which is being sought increasingly as a safe haven by inves-tors, a World Gold Council expert says. ... The news agency quoted Credit Suisse Group AG as saying that the metal may top$1700 an ounce in the next 12 months. “Gold never goes away. Nobody throws away gold because it's so precious and always recyclable,” Cheng noted. ...
China business news
DraftFCB Saw Writing on the Wall in SC Johnson Review | News ...
Nearly eight months ago, when news came down that SC Johnson would launch a global review of all its marketing accounts, DraftFCB, lead marketing agency on the account, felt confident it would retain the business. It had deep ties within the client, a 58-year history and had built a global network of offices around the world, some just to service SCJ. But by the time the contending agencies made their final pitches in early June, in what were said to be five- to ...
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Obama says deal reached to end debt impasse - World News - IBNLive
Now that top lawmakers have sealed a deal, both the Senate and House of Representatives are expected to vote on Monday. While Senate approval is likely, the agreement's fate may be less certain in the House. ... Financial markets showed immediate signs of relief after becoming unnerved in recent days as lawmakers neared an August 2 deadline to raise the limit on America's borrowing or risk the world's largest economy running out of money to pay its bills. ...
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NewsDaily: Britain, Japan warn of disaster if no U.S. debt deal
By Tomasz Janowski and Olesya Dmitracova
NewsDaily: Your best source for breaking newsTOP NEWS. Share Blog Subscribe Print Email Bookmark ... Governments across the world fear that because of the key role of the U.S. dollar inglobal banking and trading systems, there could be severe instability when Asian financial markets reopen Monday if a U.S. debt deal is not in sight by then. .... Enter a keyword or phrase to find thelatest news stories, plus related articles, videos, blog posts, and podcasts. ...
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Obama, Republicans eye $3 trillion debt deal - Arab News
Harry Reid, D-Nevada, speaks during a news conference on debt ceiling legislation on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP). By AGENCIES. Published: Aug 1, 2011 00:32 Updated: Aug 1, 2011 02:09. WASHINGTON: With barely two days to act, ...
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Middle East banking sector competitiveness to increase further ...
The banking sector in the Middle East will become more competitive over the coming two years according to the annual Barclays Corporate Global Banking Survey. The survey was conducted among 200 top... ... more Barclays news. The research also revealed that banks and financial institutions across the globe are now focused on Asia as the world's number one region, followed closely by Africa and the Middle East, to provide the industry with significant growth. ...
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Ticketmaster.com is the global event ticketing leader and one of the world's top five eCommerce sites, with over 26 million monthly unique visitors. Live Nation Concerts produces over 20000 shows annually for more than 2000 artists ...
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Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup | Watts Up With That?
By Anthony Watts
By Ken Haapala, Executive Vice President, Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP). Videos from the Sixth International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC) sponsored by Heartland Institute are available on the web. Go to: ... A quick look at the costs of automobiles on web sites, such as one by US News, gives examples of the impracticality of thinking displayed by this announcement. The vaunted Toyota Prius has an invoice price of $22108 plus but gets only 51 mpg...
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CRWE, CIS, MTW, VQ, - CRWESelect.com Stock News! Crown Equity ...
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Internet is a global platform. It offers businesses an exposure to a worldwide audience. Business is no more limited to an area or location and can reach even the remotest places possible. People from any part of the world can visit ... CRWE previously reported it has extended its CRWENEWSWIREglobal platform web presence and is now publishing online news and information to the following countries: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, Ireland, ...
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ICS Wraps Up Record Breaking 14th World Conference On Lung Cancer ...
7031 experts from over 100 different countries gathered at the Amsterdam RAI Convention Centre in The Netherlands, from July 3 to 7 for the 14th World Conference on Lung Cancer (WCLC). ... Most Read News. BizBash Names The 68 Most Innovative People In Events · Top Meetings Destinations For Associations 2010 ... e-newsletter. Subscribe our daily news alert keeping you at the forefront of developments within the global meetings industry. ...
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