"Never leave that til tomorrow which you can do today," said Benjamin Franklin. Pretty good advice, especially considering it comes from a guy who was an absolute whiz at productivity (Franklin was somehow an author, printer, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat).
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Denmark’s financial watchdog is urging banks to put in place better checks and balances to prevent excessive bonuses it says may spur greater risk-taking. The warning follows a decision by the Financial Supervisory Authority this month to criticize Danske Bank A/S (DANSKE) for having a remuneration policy for key staff it said encourages “more risky dispositions” by offering bonuses as high as 200 percent of base pay.
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Toyota Motor Corp. (7203) outsold General Motors Co. (GM) and Volkswagen AG (VOW) for a third straight quarter, helped by rising demand in Japan and China. Sales at Toyota, including its Hino Motors Ltd. (7205)and Daihatsu Motor Co. (7262) units, rose about 6 percent to 2.58 million units in the January-to-March period, the Japanese automaker said today. Second place is too close to call as GM and VW said they sold about 2.4 million each, and the German company hasn’t disclosed deliveries for the MAN and Scania heavy truck brands.
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Apple has released a short video on the design of its forthcoming flying-saucer-shaped headquarters with appearances by Sir Norman Foster, whose firm Foster & Partners designed the 176-acre compound, and the project’s lead architect, Stephen Behling.
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The government said it would also spend more than A$1.6bn on new facilities at two air bases in the states of New South Wales and the Northern Territory. Prime Minister Tony Abbott said that the purchase would "ensure our edge as a regional power". He added the deal did not involve any "new spending".
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Transactions on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) on Tuesday ended on a positive trend as the All-Share Index (ASI) rose by 0.24 per cent.
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t's pretty clear bonds are a bad job, with returns relatively meager and prices likely to fall ahead, but yield-seeking investors keep pushing money their way. "People have been buying bonds for some years and going further out the risk spectrum to get yield as Treasury yields fall," said Mark Matthews, head of research for Asia at Julius Baer. Bond yields move inversely to their prices. "There's not a lot of value left in fixed income in general, not just the high yield," he said.
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Pavel Durov the former CEO of the leading Russian social network VKontakte (VK) says he has left Russia for good and now intends to develop a new mobile social network. “I’m out of Russia and have no plans to go back,” he told Tech Crunch. “Unfortunately, the country is incompatible with internet business at the moment.”
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Dangote Group, Honeywell, BUA Group and other cement, food and beverage manufacturing plants across the country are generating over 15,000 megawatts of electricity that are not in the national grid.
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The Nigerian Communications Commission is obviously excited by the latest report of a rebased Gross Domestic Product.
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