The Economist - UK (2019-06-29)

TheEconomistJune 29th 2019 61 1 W hen buy-out firms first came to prominence in the 1980s, they were seen as wolves in fine Ital ...

62 Business The EconomistJune 29th 2019 2 1 $12trn deployed by American mutual and exchange-traded funds, just $4.5trn could be ...

The EconomistJune 29th 2019 Business 63 2 property funds that invest over 20 or 30 years. In 2015 it paid $5.3bn for an apart- m ...

64 Business The EconomistJune 29th 2019 L ush forests, cowbells ringing and a fairy-tale castle make the alpine foot- hills abov ...

The EconomistJune 29th 2019 Business 65 I n 2000 chinahad two supercomputers ranked among the world’s fastest 500. Ten years lat ...

66 Business The EconomistJune 29th 2019 I t is oneof the most widely quoted statistics of recent years. No report or conference ...

TheEconomistJune 29th 2019 67 1 A well-knownstockmarket sell signal is a company splurging on flashy new headquarters. It might ...

68 Finance & economics The EconomistJune 29th 2019 2 1 the City of London’s trajectory was better than that of New York as g ...

The EconomistJune 29th 2019 Finance & economics 69 2 1 only on exchanges in the eu27.  Regarding delegation, in 2017 esma pu ...

70 Finance & economics The EconomistJune 29th 2019 2 Buttonwood Russian orthodox Buyingthedream Source:CentralBankofRussia N ...

The EconomistJune 29th 2019 Finance & economics 71 1 G overnments in fiscaldistress some- times find creative ways to pay th ...

72 Finance & economics The EconomistJune 29th 2019 2 bravedthebrutalsummerheattovisitfam- ily—andtook theopportunity todo th ...

The EconomistJune 29th 2019 Finance & economics 73 E conomicsisthestudyofhowsociet- iesallocatescarceresources.Butwhy letegg ...

74 Finance & economics The EconomistJune 29th 2019 T he globaleconomic mood has taken to whipsawing between gloom and optimi ...

TheEconomistJune 29th 2019 75 1 I n 1977 richard peto, an epidemiologist at Oxford University, observed a contra- diction. Cance ...

76 Science & technology The EconomistJune 29th 2019 2 1 compared with 11-25% in human popula- tions. Some participants in th ...

The EconomistJune 29th 2019 Science & technology 77 2 However,thestrangeteethofancientcroc- odiles, they reasoned, might giv ...

78 Science & technology The EconomistJune 29th 2019 S teady improvementsin battery tech- nology, driven along by the electri ...

TheEconomistJune 29th 2019 79 1 I n the beginning it seems to be an or- dinary nature documentary. Two ga- zelles, a male and a ...

80 Books & arts The EconomistJune 29th 2019 2 which appear in “Defence Lines”, begin with the barrier’s construction in the ...