Fortune Teller with Parakeets

Indian fortune-teller with his prophesying parakeets. The birds select cards from a pack, which the fortune-teller interprets for the customer. Animal welfare authorities are trying to eliminate the practice. Made in Pushkar, Rajasthan. Shot on Fujichrome film. Lens either 28mm or 50mm Nikkor; exposure
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Freddie Mac Var N (FMCCN) shares are being placed on chartists radar as the recent share price of 9.5000 is pushed below the balance step moving average. The balance step is a simple Moving Average calculated from last 5 Balance Points (MA/3),5) of the weekly period bar plotted in step formation
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Bill Ackman took advantage of a share price increase to sell about $125 million worth of his holdings in Automatic Data Processing Inc., the payroll outsourcer that he targeted in an unsuccessful proxy fight last year. Pershing Square Capital Management, the activist fund run by Ackman, sold 5 million
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SINGAPORE – Several banking industry leaders on Tuesday (Mar 13) warned that lenders risk being usurped by big technology companies, and becoming merely part of the infrastructure if they do not jostle for space in the financial technology (fintech) landscape. “Transform or die” was their message at
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For one of the most famous women in finance, it's been a “downer” moving from banking, where gender diversity is bad enough, to the even greater lack of female representation in blockchain. “It's somewhat disappointing, after spending the better part of three decades in the financial services sector,
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Banking, meanwhile, is an industry where stability and security trump speed, but that dynamic is changing. Technology has allowed products to emerge that combine all three, including Quicken's Rocket Mortgage and banks without bricks and mortar like Bank of the Internet (NASDAQ: BOFI). There are
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Find out more about SelectLeaders job postings by viewing the online job postings in more detail. CONTROLLER – Real Estate with Yardi and Global Integrity Realty Corp.
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First American Financial Corporation, through its subsidiaries, provides financial services. The company has market cap of $6.60 billion. It operates through Title Insurance and Services, and Specialty Insurance divisions. It has a 15.81 P/E ratio. The Title Insurance and Services segment issues title
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Big tech companies are dabbling in big finance and big banks are starting to notice. Amazon has loaned over a billion dollars to small businesses, Apple owns more corporate debt than some of the worlds biggest bond funds, and Google and Apple have gotten into the mobile payment business.
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We have partnered locally with a Fortune 20 company to help them expand their data center footprint. We are currently building teams of Critical Facility Engineers to maintain their critical infrastructure in one of their 45 data centers located in Sterling, VA.
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This morning, the ironically named columnist Andrew P Street wrote a piece giving hope to those who are crushed under the wheel of the Sydneytown house market. He believes that the solution is to flee it, articulating how many of his circle surreptitiously possess a plan to that end, to Thelma & Louise
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While still true at the national level, London can no longer be characterised as a sellers' market. An apparent shift in attitudes among sellers, combined with lower buyer numbers has sharply altered the balance of power. Experience suggests that this transformation has gone far enough to make a fall in
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LEBANON, Tenn. (WKRN) – The number of houses being built in Lebanon has increased each year since 2013. The Lebanon Planning Commission approved more than 2,100 units to be built in 2017, and because more and more people are moving to the area, that number is expected to increase this
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Arch Capital Group has confirmed its involvement in a mortgage credit risk transfer programme with Freddie Mac that it says will support market stability through economic cycles. The Bermuda-based carrier explained that Arch MRT, a new US subsidiary, is participating in a Freddie Mac programme
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IntroductionThe housing market of coastal California is a good example of a market where growing demand and stagnant supply are leading to high and rising prices. From San Diego to Sonoma County, a strong economy, rich culture, and natural beauty attract Americans and immigrants from all age
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The stock of SodaStream International Ltd. (NASDAQ:SODA) hit a new 52-week high and has $91.04 target or 3.00 % above today's $88.39 share price. The 5 months bullish chart indicates low risk for the $1.94B company. The 1-year high was reported on Mar, 13 by Barchart.com. If the $91.04 price
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Despite being late in its cycle, the global real estate market is benefiting from strong returns for investors and a positive global economic outlook, according to Emerging Trends in Real Estate – The Global Outlook for 2018, an annual forecast of global real estate investor sentiment published jointly by
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The United States is slowly dismantling many of the measures it put in place after the 2008-09 financial crisis, such as the Dodd-Frank controls on financial institutions. Canada is not automatically following suit, and indeed is slowly tightening conditions in areas such as access to mortgage financing.
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Chinese investment in Canadian property could be about to take a nosedive. That's because, according to a recent survey, new regulations are making many would-be buyers think twice about getting into the Canadian housing market. Last August, the Chinese government implemented new rules
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“Behind the Goldman Sachs Race to the Top Was a Quiet Battle for Blankfein's Favor,” is the Bloomberg News headline, and I hope they baked him cupcakes on alternating days. (“How Solomon won cage match to become Goldman heir apparent” is the Financial Times's more dramatic headline, but
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