(Adds bond returns in eighth paragraph. See {EXT4 <GO>} for more on euro-area financial crisis.) Feb. 7 (Bloomberg) — Anthony Roche is urging his unemployed son to emigrate to Australia from Ireland to escape joblessness stemming from the country’s economic collapse. “I’ve seen the good times and the bad and these are the worst,” Roche, [...]
The route from Karachi to Kabul was the best way to get supplies to U.S. troops in Afghanistan, and the main artery for a Pashtun trucking empire—until Pakistan shut it down Like a broker tracking the dips and spikes of a volatile but lucrative stock, Mohammad Shakir Afridi has kept a close eye on U.S. [...]
Unaggressive bets have led Aditya Puri’s bank to 10 years of 30 percent profit gains Aditya Puri avoids e-mail, doesn’t carry a mobile phone or wear a watch, and goes home for lunch most days. That hasn’t stopped his HDFC Bank (HDB) from becoming the country’s second-biggest lender by market value, after government-owned State Bank of India. [...]
The $25 billion video game industry now generates twice as much as Hollywood’s box office. Does that make Hilbert the most powerful agent in the world? Let’s say you have a werewolf, a vampire, and a human, and you all have to battle for survival,” Jeff Hilbert says as he drives to a meeting in [...]