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Asian equities (ex-Japan) MSCI Asia ex-Japan (27 June): 469 (last month: 466) UBS View MSCI Asia ex-Japan (6-month target): 515 ¢ The region continued to show high volatility last month, with its P/BV temporarily close to 2008 lows. ¢ Hong Kong and Singapore markets’ domestic fu...

…connection makes an object instantly, clearly visible, it revolutionizes its potential. Little wonder so many great fortunes are being made in applying this trick of plugging goods into compression engines like apps or matching services. It’s hard to know if firms like Airbnb or...

…/19 “Revenue Streams Expand For Hemp Growers.” We think this compliments the sustainability movement that is gaining ground in global apparel and footwear production and among Millennial and Gen Z consumers. Western Producer quotes Jan Slaski, senior researcher for InnoTech Alber...

…e of our lives. A feeling of breathlessness in the face of speed isn’t new, of course. When Anna Karenina folds herself under an oncoming train at the end of Tolstoy’s novel, for instance, her suicide is as much metaphor as personal tragedy, a comment on the disorienting steam, e...

…netic combinations can create moral monsters and how particular environmental conditions can convert good citizens into uncaring killers and extortionists. This explanation will not allow us to banish evil from the world. Rather, it will enable us to understand why some individua...

…racts, confidential rebates and fees that would be considered illegal kickbacks in many other industries. IV bags can function like cheap milk and eggs in a high-priced grocery store, or like the one-cent cellphone locked into an expensive service contract. They serve as loss le...

…th me when I joined RRA, including MMB, and Jane Doe. When I joined the firm, I was not aware that Scott Rothstein was running a Ponzi scheme at RRA. Had I known such a Ponzi scheme was in place, I would never have joined RRA. I am now aware that it has been alleged that Scott R...

…t approval and improved political climate Special Report Peter Winter Positive clinical data, increases in federal funding and the first regulatory approval of a manufactured stem cell product mean momentum is building in the US. With the re-election of President Obama, this...

…er. Now, he endorsed Yitzhik Mordechai instead: a man not only with strong military credentials, but of Sephardi background and religiously observant, and a proven politician and cabinet minister. It was clear that he would be going after many of the same votes I needed to win....

…of mechanisms is in the motivational system. Motivation tells the brain what to pay attention to, by giving reward and punishment. If a brain does not get much reward for solving puzzles, the individual will find mathematics very boring and won't learn much of it. Ifa brain gets...

…g of May 17, 1977. As Nava and I watched in our tiny living room in Ramat Hasharon, Chaim Yavin, the anchorman on the country’s only TV channel, was handed an exit poll from Israel’s latest national election. He began with three words: Gvirotai verabotai, Mahapakh. “Ladies and Ge...

…12:00AM WITH his panoramic view of world affairs sharper than ever, Paul Keating blames the current global crisis on blunders by European and US leaders and warns that Australia must rediscover the keys to national success. Interviewed in his Sydney office, furnished in a style...

…y are accomplices to crime. What kind of mind is most likely to rev up the fantasy world to supersonic levels and then unleash it in the service of excessive harm? Lust murderers — individuals with a craving for the bizarre and degenerate —provide one answer to this question. Lu...

…ce of loneliness when assessed as present or absent. Loneliness is a common experience; as many as 80 percent of people under 18 years of age and 30 percent of people over 65 years of age report being lonely at least sometimes. For most people, feelings of loneliness are situatio...

… whatever. Some that are fringe organizations. My point is that over time it all gets kind of washed out, right? People understand what pulls them together, and the people on the margins I think get marginalized more and more. I believe that you'll see this in the center-right p...