Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Jan 18, 2016 (II)

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(3) Catherine Bosley, Fergal O'Brien and Jan Schwalbe, Switzerland Weathers the Superstrong Franc.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/ar ... e-superstrong-franc

Note:
(a) summary underneath the title in print: The central bank spent billions defending the exchange rate cap
(b) quotation underneath the title in print: 'Delaying * * * *would have led to a much worse outcome'

(c) "It was in a small, wood-paneled boardroom overlooking Lake Zurich that Thomas Jordan[, 'president of the SNB, , the nation’s central bank,] and his colleagues at the Swiss National Bank made a decision * * * to scrap a cap of 1.20 francs to the euro [that was 'announced at 10:30 am Central European Time on Jan 15, 2015']. The bank had kept it in place since 2011 in an attempt to control the Swiss currency’s runaway strength and avoid further damage to the country’s exports, which make up more than 60 percent of gross domestic product."
(i) Lake Zurich
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Zurich

* Zurich is the largest city (population: 400,000) of Switzerland, whose capital is Bern.
(ii) time zone
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_zone
(section 5  UTC offsets worldwide)

Europe has Western European Time, Central European Time, Eastern European Time (north to south: Finland, Baltic states, Ukraine, Moldova, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey), and Further-eastern European Time (Russia).

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(5) Zeke Faux and Bloomberg News, The Simple Truth About China's Market.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/ar ... bout-china-s-market
("The median stock on mainland exchanges still trades at about 57 times earnings—at least twice as expensive as any other major market. (Leading China stock indexes don’t look nearly so pricey but are weighted to financial companies, which tend to carry lower valuations.) In spite of currency instability and concerns about slowing economic growth, investors are treating the typical Chinese company as if its potential is somewhere between that of Google and Facebook")

Note:
(a) summary underneath the title in print: It's not just clumsy trading rules that have made the mainland's stocks so risky
(b) "Chen Gang, chief investment officer for Shanghai Heqi Tongyi Asset Management"

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(c) "A boom in initial public offerings made parts of the stock market look more like a lottery. Shares of Beijing Baofeng Technology [Co, Ltd 北京暴风科技股份有限公司], a developer of online video players, soared 4,200 percent in 55 trading days after going public on the Shenzhen stock exchange in March. (The stock then dropped 31 percent before suspending trading in October.)"

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(4) Keith Naughton, SUVs are T-Boning the Family Sedan.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/ne ... 20160111-story.html
("Small sport-utes started outselling the Camry, Honda Accord and other midsized sedans last summer * * * They don't guzzle: A [Honda] CR-V gets 33 miles per gallon on the highway")

Note:
(a) summary underneath the title in print: Small sport-utes are poised to surpass the Camry and Accord as America's favorite family ride
(b) T-bone
(i) as noun:

T-bone steak
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-bone_steak
(section 2 Anatomy of the T-bone)

(ii) as a verb and its etymology:

T-bone (n): "type of steak, 1916, so called from the T-shaped bone that runs through it. The verb meaning 'to strike (another car, bus, etc) from the side' is by 1970, from adjectival use in reference to crashes, attested from 1952, from the position of the two vehicles at impact."
Online Etymology Dictionary
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=T-bone

The use as a verb, according to Oxforddictionaries.com, is “North American[,] informal.”

(c) Southfield, Michigan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southfield,_Michigan
(a northern suburb of Detroit [actually the two shares Detroit's northern boundary)
(d) Toyota RAV4
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_RAV4
(the first compact crossover SUV [qv] making its debut in Japan and Europe in 1994 and in North America in 1995; RAV4 stands for "Recreational Active Vehicle with 4-wheel drive)
(e) Honda CR-V
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_CR-V
(There are discrepancies as to what "CR-V" stands for)

(f)
(i) ute (vehicle)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ute_(vehicle)
(A ute – an abbreviation for "utility" or "coupé utility" – is a term used originally in Australia and New Zealand)
(ii) The ute as a vehicle is pronounced the same as

Ute people
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ute_people
(now living primarily in Utah and Colorado; "The name of the state of Utah was derived from the name Ute. The word Ute means 'Land of the sun' in their language")