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...Bank of China (ICBC). Despite the fact that Chinese banks are known for their lack of transparency and weak management, ICBC was a wild success. Its share price at one point soared 70% above its initial offering price of 39? in Hong Kong. That pushed the bank's market cap so high that for a while it was valued as the second largest financial institution in the world behind giant Citigroup. The appetite for China stocks has encouraged other big corporations to tap the market. Analysts say they're expecting China Mobile, the world's largest mobile-phone company...
...have worked to London's benefit. From Russian Big Oil (Rosneft) to a Peruvian silver mining group (Hochschild), international businesses together raised $19.6 billion on London's exchanges last year. The number of international firms on the lse's Alternative Investment Market (aim) - the lightly regulated bourse for small-cap companies - has doubled in the past two years to more than 300 (prompting accusations from the n.y.s.e. that aim lacks rigorous enough standards; the lse said the claims appeared "to indicate a misunderstanding about the operation and regulation of aim.") The lse has intentionally concentrated its attention on companies from...
...haughty of glance, with an apartment, where else, on elegant Avenue Foch. She was the American-born Baroness Stephania von Kories zu Goetzen, still stunning at 47, possessed of digs on the Left Bank fully as grand as his. They were seen everywhere, usually together, at Gstaad or Cap d'Antibes in season, and at other times in the toniest watering holes of the capital. Only recently the Paris magazine Officiel de la Couture et de la Mode had ranked them among the most elegantly dressed members...
...individual performances throughout the meet but saved their best for the last event, an exhibition 200-yard freestyle relay. Eight Crimson seniors, instead of the usual four, each swam a 25-yard leg of the relay to help the squad to a light-hearted victory in the event and cap four years of competition together at Blodgett Pool. “Today was about having fun, paying tribute to the seniors and going out with a bang,” junior diver Samantha Papadakis said. The seniors were not the only ones making a splash. Papadakis made school and Blodgett...
Perot says he knew so little about IBM that at first he thought it made only typewriters. Soon better informed, he became a Dallas-based computer supersalesman whose order books bulged so quickly that IBM put a cap on his commissions. In 1962, after five years, he founded EDS with $1,000 in capital as a company to process computerized data for other businesses. EDS quickly found a niche processing medical-insurance forms for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas. In 1968, when Perot took his firm public, its revenues were $7.7 million. He managed to persuade underwriters...