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202BusinessA purge of Russia’s banks is not finished yet
Elvira’s mad again WHEN Elvira Nabiullina took over the governorship of the Russian Central Bank (CBR) in 2013, she faced a bloated...
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117BusinessChina’s bicycle-sharing giants are still trying to make money
Shades of cycling joy STEVE JOBS liked to describe computers as “bicycles for the mind”—tools that let humans do things faster and...
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105BusinessGoogle can no longer count on political goodwill at home
“WE USED to be so dismissed,” says Jeremy Stoppelman, the boss of Yelp, an online-review site which has waged a six-year-long battle...
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125BusinessAustralia is the new frontier for battery minerals
Recession proofer FORGET the “resource curse”. Australia is blessed with the stuff. For more than a quarter of a century it has...
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100BusinessItaly’s new savings accounts fuel a boom in stockmarket listings
ITALY seems an unlikely place to be enjoying a boom in new listings on the stockmarket. It is full of family-run small...
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122BusinessJapan is embracing nursing-care robots
AT SHINTOMI nursing home in Tokyo, men and women sit in a circle following exercise instructions before singing along to a famous...