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• Principal Financial Group Inc. (PFG) Stake Maintained by Gulf ... - Community Financial News

  04-12-2016 17:38
  
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  Principal Financial Group Inc. (PFG) Stake Maintained by Gulf ...
  Community Financial News
  Gulf International Bank UK Ltd maintained its position in shares of Principal Financial Group Inc. (NYSE:PFG) during the third quarter, according to its most ...en meer »
  
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• Like a football manager, remainers can only see the other team's fouls

  04-12-2016 14:05 via theguardian.com
  
  Both sides in the Brexit debate did some embellishing, so those who wanted to stay in the EU should stop calling for a replay
  The post-match interview is a familiar part of TV’s coverage of football. Win or lose, managers are put in front of a camera to give their assessment of the match.Football fans know the drill: when a team has lost, the manager can reel off a list of blatantly bad refereeing calls that have cost his side the game, but he is always unsighted when it comes to offences
  
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• Google, democracy and the truth about internet search

  04-12-2016 11:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Tech-savvy rightwingers have been able to ‘game’ the algorithms of internet giants and create a new reality where Hitler is a good guy, Jews are evil and… Donald Trump becomes presidentHere’s what you don’t want to do late on a Sunday night. You do not want to type seven letters into Google. That’s all I did. I typed: “a-r-e”. And then “j-e-w-s”. Since 2008, Google has attempted to predict what question you might be asking and offers y
  
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• Espressos and networking: co-living has me hooked

  04-12-2016 08:55 via theguardian.com
  
  Communal work and living spaces are cropping up across the world. Could they be the secret to a successful work-life balance? My Monday morning commute in early November wouldn’t be worthy of tracking on a FitBit; it’s just two flights of stairs from my bedroom to the sun-drenched minimalistic office, where several of my co-workers have already kickstarted the day, heads down to their Macs or discussing their freelance projects, cups of espresso beside them.
  So far, perhaps a typical
  
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• Kept on hold by Barclays for four months as it fails to clear a £19,000 cheque

  04-12-2016 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  A manager told us there is a chance we’d ‘never get this money’In July I paid an American cheque for $24,000 into my Barclays current account, and four months on it has not cleared. I have repeatedly asked Barclays what is going on – at around £19,300 this is a huge amount of money – and have been getting endless excuses and conflicting information. After refusing to leave the branch one day I was taken into the bank manager’s office and told by a manage
  
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• Australia will lose triple-A credit rating, says former Liberal leader John Hewson

  04-12-2016 03:10 via theguardian.com
  
  ‘It’s just a question of timing,’ Hewson warns as Labor pushes negative gearing reform as a budget fixThe former Liberal leader John Hewson has issued a warning to the treasurer, Scott Morrison, as he puts together his mid-year budget review.“The fact we are going to lose the triple-A credit rating is a foregone conclusion, it’s just a question of timing,” Hewson told Sky News on Sunday. Continue reading...
  
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• The grim truth of Chinese factories producing the west’s Christmas toys

  04-12-2016 01:05 via theguardian.com
  
  Undercover investigation by China Labor Watch exposes low wages, hazardous chemicals and overtime beyond legal limitsXiao Fang thinks she’s one of the luckier workers making Barbie dolls for the Christmas market at the Mattel toy factory in Chang’an.True, she says, she works 11-hour days, six days a week, and shares a dormitory with nine other women and gets to see her husband only once a week. She had to leave her three-year-old daughter back home in Sichuan. And there is only a com
  
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