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New record: Market cap of world's 100 largest companies exceeds $ 20 trillion

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The current indicator grew by 5% from April 2018 to March. The total capitalization of the hundred largest world companies for the first time exceeded $ 21 trillion, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers. The market value of hundreds of enterprises...

WeWork reveals financial results in the run-up to IPO

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WeWork coworking spaces chain, the most expensive US startup, revealed its financial performance in the run-up to the IPO. The company's revenue for the year doubled, and the loss grew by 25%. The American coworking spaces operator We Company...

Huawei suspected of helping African secret services spy on opposition

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The Chinese concern Huawei is cooperating with the governments of Uganda and Zambia to help them persecute their political opponents, writes The Wall Street Journal. According to the American newspaper The Wall Street Journal, the Chinese company...

CBS, Viacom announce merger

CBS, Viacom announce merger
US media companies CBS Corp and Viacom Inc have agreed to merge in the form of exchange of stocks. The deal will create a company with annual revenues of more than $ 28 billion. "The combined company - ViacomCBS Inc. - will become the leading global...
Markets & Industries

August 14th becomes the worst day for the American stock market since the beginning of 2019

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US stock indexes closed trading on Wednesday with a fall of about 3%, showing the worst dynamics since the beginning of the year due to fears of a recession in the United States, as well as weak statistics from Germany and China. During the...

Experts: German economy remains pessimistic

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The monthly economic sentiment index in Germany, published by the Center for European Economic Research (ZEW), in August dropped to minus 44.1 points, losing another 19.6 points compared to July. This is the minimum value of the index since December...

IEA lowers energy demand growth forecast for 2019

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In 2019, global oil demand this year will grow by only 1.1 million barrels per day (bpd) as the growth in January-May has been minimal since 2008, follows from the August forecast of the International Energy Agency (IEA). While the market is not in...

Number of US offline pharmacies is going down

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The largest US pharmacy chain CVS has announced that it will open significantly fewer pharmacies in 2019 compared to 2018. The second largest network, Walgreens, announced imminent closure of about 200 pharmacies. Experts note that pharmacy chains...
In-depth coverage

Filippo Ciarletti Executive Vice President and CTO at Mars&Co: "A strategy consultant must develop his architectural skills, i.e. the ability to put together science, creativity and the human dimension."

Mr Filippo Ciarletti, Italian born, raised in Switzerland, with degrees at Ecole Centrale de Paris (ECP), the MIT and INSEAD, followed by thirty five years in strategy consulting at Mars&Co where you serve as Executive Vice President and CTO. That should give you a rather unique perspective into the business challenges ahead.Could you first tell us how you see the fit between your personal stor...
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“Wherever we go, we are above all at the service of the local authorities' urban project” an interview with Carmen Munoz, CEO of the French Company Citelum

Citelum, a subsidiary of the French energy group EDF, is a company specializing in urban lighting, which currently generates more than 75% of its revenue from international operations. Its general manager, Carmen Munoz-Dormoy, explains how the company has established itself abroad and how it is involved in local urban development.1. In your last activity report, you stated that you ar...
World & Politics

Is Argentina making a left turn once again?

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Representative of the left bloc Alberto Fernandez won the presidential primaries in Argentina. His victory collapsed the country's financial market, and the peso rate has fallen by 30% since the beginning of the week. Investors fear that if this...

Volume of greenhouse gas emissions broke all records in 2018

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Level of greenhouse gas emissions broke a record in 2018. The concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere reached 407.4 parts per million, which is the highest value in history. The impact of emissions on global warming compared with 1990 was...

Is Salvini pushing Italy into crisis?

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A political crisis erupted in Italy, and there is now a question of a no confidence vote in the government. Meanwhile, the country's economy is going through hard times: the level of poverty in the country is growing, public debt has reached...

India to cut oil refining

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India intends to reduce capacity of the new largest oil refinery, as the country needs to lower spending. The need to comply with stringent environmental measures when acquiring land resulted in an increase in total costs to $ 60 billion from $ 44...
Management & Strategy

How to organize your thoughts in the information overdose era

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Our brains find unique approaches to organizing information. However, the “information overdose” era can be quite difficult to handle. What can we do to cope with the excess information? Categorization Categorization will help shift part of the...

Five tips to get a pay raise

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It is unlikely that there will be a person who would refuse a raise in salary. Often, however, we let chips fall where they may: wait until the boss offers the raise and feel underestimated if they don’t. If you are sure that you deserve more, you...

How to become a successful innovator in your company

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Even a great business model may not be enough to guarantee success of a new product. Innovations threaten the status quo, therefore they often cause fear and resistance from employees of the company and society as a whole. Beginner innovators leave...

Seven features of successful teams

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According to David Cancel, CEO and Founder of In Drift, “it’s not the skills of the product leader, but his experience that is secondary.” Cancel believes that personal skills dominate among the important characteristics of the product leader: "We...