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As medical care has gotten better, more and more people have lived to be in their 90s, or even beyond 100. In the United States, people who have lived more than 100 years number over 90,000. Worldwide, the figure is about six per 100,000 people. The rate in Japan is nearly 10 times that. The […]
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Apple paid its chief executive, Tim Cook, $US1.4 billion ($1.8 billion) in total since 2007. Oracle’s chairman, Larry Ellison, racked up stock and cash valued at nearly $US1.9 billion over the same period. And Mark Zuckerberg has pulled in $US5.7 billion from Facebook since the company went public in 2012. These are among the billion-dollar […]
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Why is the Biden administration considering retaliatory measures? How will the move impact India? The story so far: During the past week, the United States announced and then immediately suspended a 25% tariff on $2 billion of imports from six countries, including India, as a retaliatory measure against each of these countries’ imposition of a […]
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The jump in U.S. labor productivity in the first quarter of 2021 was unrevised from the initial estimate, according to a report released by the Labor Department on Thursday. The report showed labor productivity surged up by 5.4 percent in the first quarter, unrevised from the estimate provided last month. Economists had expected the pace […]
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French wine and spirits company Remy Cointreau (REMYF.PK) reported that its net profit attributable to the group for fiscal year 2020/21 was 144.5 million euros, up 27.5% from last year. Excluding non-recurring items, net profit attributable to the Group was 148.2 million euros, up 19.4% on a reported basis. Earnings per share, excluding non-recurring items, […]
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‘Loan overdues are set to increase’ Collections of non-banking financial companies (NBFCs) have been adversely impacted due to widespread and more stringent lockdowns in May 2021, rating agency ICRA said. “With 25-30% of collection through field operations, loan overdues are set to increase as regular collections and recoveries from overdues were impacted by the more […]
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It has been said that demography is destiny. Whatever the truth of that, some countries have dramatically different demographics from others, and one key characteristic is age. With that in mind, 24/7 Wall St. set out to identify the country around the world with the oldest population. Not surprisingly, most of the countries on our […]
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