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Ma, the founder and executive chairman of Alibaba Group Holding, leaves following the company's roadshow meeting in New York

Jack Ma, ‘capital-lite’ model impress at Alibaba’s Boston IPO event

10/09/2014(0)
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd has two major things going for it as it prepares for an initial public offering that could raise more than $21 billion: founder Jack Ma ... Read More
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Africa likely to experience oil and gas boom

09/09/2014(0)
A study released by PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC) concluded that Africa had the potential to experience a major mid-term energy boom. The survey forecast demand for oil on the continent would ... Read More
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Facebook market cap tops $200bn

09/09/2014(0)
Facebook’s market capitalisation topped $200bn for the first time on Monday, beating rival Google in the time it took since going public to reach the symbolic figure. As well ... Read More
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Wall St middle-aged bankers stuck in squeezed middle

09/09/2014(0)
It is Wall Street’s “squeezed middle”: a large cohort of bankers in their thirties and forties are fretting that promotions to their banks’ top tier are becoming harder to ... Read More
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Junior Mining Companies Looking for Financial Lifeboats

09/09/2014(0)
Any company will tell you that panic starts to set in once the confidence of the board or of investors begins to wane. This is precisely the situation in ... Read More
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Rosneft struggles to grow as sanctions hit Russia’s oil champion

09/09/2014(0)
The Kremlin’s prized oil firm Rosneft is cutting staff and production and selling stakes in Siberian fields in the strongest evidence to date that Western sanctions are hurting what ... Read More
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Telefonica trials to take AT&T home security technology overseas

09/09/2014(0)
AT&T Inc (T.N) on Monday said Spain’s Telefonica SA (TEF.MC) will license its home security technology for limited trials in Europe as the U.S. carrier hopes it has found ... Read More
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Shifting Polls in Scotland Send Investors Rushing for Shelter

09/09/2014(0)
Scotland, home to just five million people, has never weighed on the minds of currency traders and market investors the way that Russia or China or the eurozone has ... Read More
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Investigation Reveals Surprising Way Foreign Governments Buy Influence In D.C.

09/09/2014(0)
An investigation by The New York Times has found that several prominent Washington, D.C. think tanks have regularly taken donations from foreign entities in exchange for using their influence ... Read More
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RBS unit may raise $3.5 billion in top U.S. bank IPO this year

08/09/2014(0)
Citizens Financial Group Inc, the U.S. unit of Britain’s Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS.L), said its initial public offering was expected to raise as much as $3.5 billion, making ... Read More
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