El 20 de noviembre es una fecha significativa en México, ya que conmemora el aniversario de la Revolución Mexicana. Además, es uno de los últimos puentes vacacionales del año y se cruza también con el Buen Fin; por ello muchas personas se cuestionan si abren los bancos el lunes, día festivo en el país.
¿Abren los bancos el 20 de noviembre? Según la disposición general de la Comisión Nacional Bancaria y de Valores (CNBV), los bancos en México suspenderán sus operaciones el próximo lunes 20 de noviembre. Read More...
At the swimming pool, my ritual of greeting fellow swimmers with “good morning” elicited a “konnichiwa” from a woman. Before I could correct her, she disappeared. It seemed somewhat comical and yet it lingered a bit, an unappealing aftertaste.
“How do you say hello in Chinese?” a friend asked. “Ni hao,” I said. “It sounds like ‘yee haw’, what they say in Texas when they are drunk,” my friend joked. “It’s ni hao,” I said, matter of fact. Read More...
The Carlyle Group has spent years attempting to shed its image as a well-connected private equity firm leveraging Washington heavyweights in the defence sector. Instead, it nurtured a reputation as a financially sophisticated asset manager that buys and sells everything from railways to oil refineries.
The recent disclosures involving National Security Agency surveillance on US citizens by Edward Snowden, an employee of Booz Allen Hamilton, a consulting firm majority-owned by Carlyle, has thrust two of Washington's most prominent corporate entities uncomfortably into the limelight, bound by the thread of turning government secrets into profits. Read More...
