Russia’s entertainment and media market will grow to $39 billion by 2016, with consumer spending in the sector to grow at an average annual rate of 36 percent in 2012-2016, according to a report presented by auditor PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC) on Thursday. full story ![]()
Mar. 27 - British banks must raise £25 bln of new capital, says the BoE. That’s a lot, but much less than feared. Investors breathe sigh of relief, UK banks outperform.
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Hillary Clinton is far and away the top 2016 Democratic presidential contender, according to the media.
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Reports indicating that Americans have invested more in equity funds here in 2013 than they did all last year have given rise to talk of the "Great Rotation". The idea is that Americans are selling fixed income investments bought during the financial crisis and now buying shares. We are less sanguine. There is a third asset class that needs to be integrated into the...
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Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie are leading the 2016 Republican pack of presidential contenders -- at least according to the media.
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As public cloud computing gains greater adoption across enterprises, there’s an increased level of spending occurring on infrastructure-related services including Infrastructure-as-a-Service(IaaS). Enterprises are prioritizing how to get cloud platforms integrated with legacy systems to make use of the years of data they have accumulated. From legacy Enterprise Resource...
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MOSCOW — Tom Cruise has become the first Hollywood star to set up a page on the popular Russian social network Vkontakte. The "Mission Impossible" actor's page appeared Friday, announced by a message on Twitter saying "See you there!" in Russian. His profile picture is a poster for his new science fiction film "Oblivion," which comes out in Russia on April 11, two weeks...
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Bogus tweet said explosions hit White House, Obama injured Tweet briefly wiped out 136.5 bln of SP 500 index value FBI, SEC looking into tweet and its market impact AP hacking follows breaches at other media organizationsBy Alina Selyukh
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