本期内容: Addressing Berkshire Hathaways annual general meeting, Warren Buffett called hedge funds typical 20% slice of profits a compensation scheme that is unbelievable. The sage of Omaha also said the link between soda and obesity was quite

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本期内容: Andthentherewasone.JohnKasich,governorofOhioandcontenderfortheRepublic anpresidentialnomination,droppedoutoftherace;hehadwononlyhishomestatesprimary.EarlierTedCruz,aTexassenatorandtheonlyplausiblerivalto DonaldTrumpforthenomination,su

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本期内容: The European Union finalized plans to preserve the existing legal regime for asylum-seekers by fining countries $290,000 for each refugee they refuse to accept from their allotted quotas. Member states and the European Parliament will

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本期内容: A Chinese leather-goods firm won the right to use the name IPHONE on its products. Xintong Tiandi Technology applied for the trademark in 2007; the application made in China by Apple, which makes the iPhone, was not approved until 201

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本期内容: FranoisHollandesaidtheTransatlanticTradeandInvestmentPartnershipwasabaddealforEurope.Leakeddocumentsshowmanyoutstandingdisagreements,onmattersincludingenvironmentalandconsumerprotection.Talksbeganin2013butbecameboggeddownamidrisingpub

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本期内容: Boosted by the performance of its new breast-cancer drug Ibrance and childrens vaccine Prevnar, Pfizer reported results well ahead of expectations. Quarterly sales by Americas largest drugmaker were up 20% year-on-year, to $13 billion

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本期内容: Apples chief executive announced a $1 billion investment in Didi Chuxing, a ride-hailing service that has cornered 87% of the market in China. Tim Cook said Apples stake should teach it more about certain segments of the China market. A

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本期内容: Google said that from mid-July it would bar ads from payday lenders on its sites; in America, any loans with an annual rate of 36% or higher will be blocked. David Graff, the search giants director of global product policy, said the d

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本期内容: Warren Buffett is backing a bid for Yahoos core internet assets, news reports said. The 85-year-old head of Berkshire Hathaway, who has previously shunned investment in the industry, has joined forces with Dan Gilbert, a billionaire w

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本期内容: Apple disappointed investors by reporting its first year-on-year drop in quarterly revenues since 2003. In Asia sales dropped by almost a fifth; net profit fell by 22.5%, to $10.5 billion. Amazon reported its own surprise: revenues well

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本期内容: The 14-year-old Doha round of negotiations stalled, probably fatally, at a World Trade Organisation meeting in Nairobi. The WTO will focus instead on smaller-scale deals. Ministers reached agreement on banning export subsidies for agr

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本期内容: SpaceX, an American space startup, launched 11 communications satellites into orbit before returning the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket to Cape Canaveral in Florida, where it made a powered landing. Reusing the first stage, which

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本期内容: Rescuers in Shenzhen, in southern China, continued to search for 85 people still missing after a landslide on Sunday. Seven were pulled from the rubble yesterday. A man-made mountain of earth and building debris collapsed, destroying

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本期内容: Oilfelltoan11-yearlow.ThepriceofBrentcrude,themaininternationalbenchmark,reached$36.05,theweakestsinceJuly2004.ItsAmericancounterpart,WestTexasIntermediate,felltoitslowestsince2009.LoomingIranianexportsarelikelytoaddtothesupplyglutcau

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本期内容: Satellite mapping of sea-surface heights sug*ests that the strong El Nio weather phenomenon resembles that of 1997-98, one of the strongest on record, according to Americas space agency, NASA. The current El Nio has been blamed for dr

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本期内容: DeutscheBank,Germanysbiggestlender,agreedtosellits20%stakeinHuaXia,aChinesebank,toPICCPropertyandCasualty,aninsurer,for23billionyuan.ThesalewillbolsterDeutschescapitalratio.JohnCryan,itsnewishchiefexecutive,hasalreadyannouncedbigjoblo

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本期内容: ChinasaidonThursdaythatitwasbuildingitsfirsthome-designedaircraft-carrier.Itsonlyexistingcarrier,theLiaoning,commissionedin2012,isarefittedSoviet-eravessel,morethan25yearsold.Chinaisembroiledinterritorialdisputeswithseveralothercountr

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本期内容: TalksinParisoncurbingclimatechangeendedlastweekendinadealrequiringthe190-oddparticipatingcountriestocuttheiremissions.Theaimistoholdtheincreaseintheglobalaveragetemperaturetowellbelow2Cabovepre-industriallevelsandtotrytolimititto1.5C.

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本期内容: America and Cuba agreed to restore scheduled commercial flights, the State Department said. The move comes a year after the two countries agreed to restore relations to normal. American tourism to Cuba, via charter flights, is booming

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本期内容: Japans Supreme Court upheld a 19th-century law under which married couples must have the same legal surname. Women almost always take their husbands names as a resultbreaching constitutional guarantees of sexual equality, campaigners

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