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Perhaps the way it could work could be a bit like a sandbox game like Assassin's Creed or the Batman Arkham series - with Team Rocket periodically taking over sectors of a geographic area.

Call it the «tobacco - model;» and, it's not one wit different from the British tax on tea: The blood, sweat, toil and sacrifice of the productive is going to this evergreen army of Western bureaucrats whose justification for existence is that they used attorneys, courts, juries and the politics of fear and envy to gain a choke hold over sectors of the economy.

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The run of mining companies turning to the technology sector is far from over with another reverse takeover in the works.

Markets around the world spent the first month and a half of 2016 zigzagging up and down over troubling news out of China and worries about losses in the banking sector.

The sector drop followed disappointing quarterly results and a skeptical analyst report stoking uncertainty over the future of the television industry.

Shares of Exxon are down about 4 percent over the last year, compared with a 9 - percent gain for the S&P 500 energy sector.

The IIF said Argentina, Nigeria, Turkey and China recorded the largest buildup in debt ratios over the year, the latter fueled by ongoing growth in indebtedness of households and the nation's finance sector.

And the massive amount of consolidation that's swept over the Canadian media sector in recent years — Bell, Rogers and Shaw have a lock on much of the market — has created openings for a nimble, smaller player that can fill niches in a TV universe overwhelmed by me - too reality shows.

The promise of cheap energy supplies and jobs in the oil and gas sector have often overshadowed concerns over the environmental impact of fracking.

Of the 28 members of the S&P 500 Utilities sector, big names like PG&E Corp and Edison International have surged 10 percent and 6 percent, respectively, over the last three monthOf the 28 members of the S&P 500 Utilities sector, big names like PG&E Corp and Edison International have surged 10 percent and 6 percent, respectively, over the last three monthof the S&P 500 Utilities sector, big names like PG&E Corp and Edison International have surged 10 percent and 6 percent, respectively, over the last three months.

The firm maintains an index of S&P 500 companies spanning nine sectors that have offered the highest yield from share repurchases and dividend payments over the past 12 months.

Drug giant GlaxoSmithKline's head of research and development, Patrick Vallance, is departing the company to head over to the U.K. public sector.

The boom might be over but mining remains an important sector that will continue to employ thousands of people and provide many investment opportunities for business.

In the room were some 1,500 energy sector executives, most of them in a tetchy mood, given that oil was south of US$ 50 a barrel and over 35,000 Albertans had lost oilpatch jobs up to that point in 2015.

The U.S. wind and solar industries employ over 300,000 people, making clean energy an important political constituency that is about five times bigger than the coal sector for jobs, thanks to years of rapid growth fueled by government incentives and declines in the cost of their technologies.

Automation may be taking over much of the business world, but in the upper reaches of the financial services sector, the human touch still holds considerable value.

The Pilbara housing market and the South West unit market were two of the strongest regional property sectors over the past year, a report released today has found.

Qalaa will divest a number of its non-core assets over the next five years and reinvest the money into the five key sectors it is now focusing on, says Ahmed Heikal, chairman and founder of Qalaa Holdings.

The measure is aimed at European businesses, mainly in the financial and health sectors, which have been concerned over the safety of their data after former NSA contractor Edward Snowden revealed in 2013 a widespread U.S. surveillance program.

Canada's resource sector was one of the primary drivers for employment over the past decade, according to Statistics Canada, so a correction in China would also rob this country of a key engine for job growth.

In its last assessment, S&P said that Portugal's outlook was stable, «balancing our expectation of further budgetary consolidation and likely receding banking sector risks over the next two years against the risks of a weakening external growth environment and vulnerabilities related to high private - and public - sector debt.»

The estate agent said it had identified 70 «wealthy individuals», with a combined wealth of over $ 200 billion, who are targeting the growing space sector.

After all, the financial sector is one of out three main markets (energy and materials are the other two) and our banks have generally been good investments over the years.

LendingTree's portion, meanwhile, accounts for over one - third of the sector.

But such is the breathless language of luxury goods, a sector that has taken a beating over the past year.

In developing the new brand, Dickinson hired a diverse team of marketers from all over the retail sector, led by a former head marketer for Loblaws.

The new announcement, which comes in the context of tensions over Syria, relates to attacks on government and private - sector organizations, as well as critical infrastructure providers.

His thesis is that the primary drivers of the banks» growth over the past two decades (lower corporate taxes, a favourable regulatory environment allowing consolidation in the sector) will no longer be as significant, and a number of challenges — including new regulations — will slow their growth.

Project Jasper, a joint effort between the private sector and Canada's central bank and payment systems operator over the past two years, is a good example of this type of work, and is a blueprint that the U.S. should follow if we ever want to see blockchain become a viable Social Security number replacement.

Clinton's apparent popularity likely stems from her developing connections in the tech sector over a longer period of time than other Oval Office contenders, according to Mark Schmitt, director of the political reform program at independent think tank New America Foundation.

Bloomberg economists David Powell and Maxime Sbaihi said, «Problems in Portugal's banking sector appear to have worried investors over the solvency of the country.»

Agil8 draws on experience of working with organizations across all industry sectors over many years, and the management and delivery of some of the world's largest and most complex Agile implementations.

There's been no shortage of high - profile hacks over the last few years — think Target, Sony and Ashley Madison — but one sector that hasn't made as much news for breaches is financial.

Programmed Maintenance Services has flagged a $ 75 million impairment resulting from poor performance in its marine services division, but expects to lift earnings to over $ 100 million by FY17 as it benefits from growth in other sectors of the economy.

Cohen is also at the center of a huge debate unfolding right now about raising the minimum wage, and the low pay of service workers in the restaurant industry, where employment has increased 72 percent since 1992, compared to job growth of 22 percent in higher - paying private sector employment over the same time period.

«He's got no energy plan, no financial analysis, if he thinks he's going to sell it off and the private sector is going to come in and invest, that is a recipe for Puerto Rico being raked over the coals by private interests,» Tom Sanzillo, director of finance for the Cleveland, Ohio - based Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis.

Membership in private - sector unions has fallen steadily over the past 25 years and now represents just 17 % of the private - sector labour force.

The revelation the state government's Office of Shared Services is to be disbanded after costing taxpayers almost $ 450 million over six years is just the latest in a long line of public sector financial disasters.

That two of the world's savviest business minds seem to disagree over how key parts of how the clean energy sector will develop are reflects how the world's energy transformation is still in its early days.

The supply of starter homes is so lean that March sales were down in that sector over 21 percent compared with a year ago, according to the National Association of Realtors.

Among the most active sectors on TSX and TSXV over the last year, Real Estate provides investors with a multitude of investment opportunities.

Over 30 % of the companies listed on TSX in the Innovation sectors (Technology, Clean Technology and Life Sciences) are also graduates of TSXV.

VirtualArmour services a wide range of clients - which include those listed on the Fortune 500 - within several industry sectors, in over 30 countries, across five continents.

Traction: By the summer of 2016, Stasis Labs, out of the University of Southern California, plans to enter the health sector in India, a rapidly growing market of over 1.6 million hospital beds.

Even with our growing tech sector, the majority of domestic IPOs over the past decade have been in energy.

Over the last few years, China's debt - to - GDP has ballooned to more than 300 percent from 160 percent a decade ago, causing many people, including Chinese officials, to warn of a financial - sector debt bubble that's waiting to burst.

Second, though, the reason NASA turned over much of its space duties to the private sector was that it had fallen behind technologically.

Sales in that sector have risen an average of 20.5 % over the past two years, according to Sageworks.

«While enhanced training of UK nationals and automation might be a solution in certain sectors if we look 10 - 20 years ahead, realistically they're unlikely to make up fully for any large reduction in EU migrant workers over the next 5 - 10 years,» said Julia Onslow - Cole, global head of immigration at PwC.

The anti-protectionism comments come as market sentiment sours with signs of a looming trade war between the United States, China and Europe over U.S. President Donald Trump's plans to raise tariffs on steel and aluminium imports, and possibly up to $ 60 billion worth of Chinese imports, targeting technology and telecommunications sectors.