Word: chips
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...China's regulators, the more important issue is this: Having overhauled the nation's laws regulating its stock markets and successfully enticed some of the country's blue chip companies to issue stock at home, what happens now if a crash comes? Some investors in China, in fact, are already miffed at the government, saying that the new supply of shares coming to the mainland's markets - regional banks such as the Bank of Nanjing are next in the IPO line - are starting to put downward pressure on equity prices. As far as the authorities are concerned...
...appeal, of course, can be intense. Blue-chip private equity firm the Blackstone Group, which sold 12% of itself to the public on June 22, has returned an annualized 30% over the past 20 years to the pension funds, endowments and high net-worth individuals invested in its flagship private equity portfolio. On the first day of trading, Blackstone's public shares surged...
...plush London neighborhood of Kensington, last week, to sample the wares of the first British outlet of the upscale U.S. supermarket chain Whole Foods. But winning over the epicurious is the easy part of promoting the healthy-eating oriented chain in the land of toad-in-the-hole and chip butties...
Solar power is now three to four times more expensive than fossil-fuel energy, but the ultra-efficient black silicon chip could reduce that cost substantially...
...hour library, campus-wide concerts, and a host of other amenities—that was my job, after all, on the Crimson’s editorial board—masked an unassailable, deep satisfaction with the people that surrounded me. That will always be Harvard’s winning chip, and this week, it upped the ante...