MADRID — Last Sunday, the day Spain held elections, thousands in the Spanish capital chose to watch live professional basketball, something still unavailable in the United States.
Many companies that are seeking foreign capital choose to list shares in Hong Kong instead, leaving few issues to attract foreign investors and few investors to supply liquidity.
It is odd, however, that Barclays, having been forced to admit it desperately needs to raise capital, chose not to take the one obvious step: stop paying its dividend.
LBC also saw record numbers of listeners tuning in during the second quarter, reaching 1.7 million across the UK and 1.3 million in London alone during a period when the capital was choosing a new mayor.
That essentially presents those empowered to bring order in the capital with choosing between escalating disruptions to business and commerce or having the army depose the elected leadership and rule until the polarized political forces can agree on new election procedures.
A little later, though still keeping Rome as the official capital, he chose two other residences.
As the capital was chosen a decade ago as a "core electric vehicle city", charging stations for the car are ubiquitous.
Little wonder that, in 1864, when the British were looking for a commanding position for a summer capital, they chose Simla.
"The thing the Bay Area does best is incent entrepreneurs, gather and deploy capital and choose management teams," said Wade Randlett, entrepreneur, Democratic activist and chairman of the San Francisco biodiesel firm NextFuels Inc.
By contrast, the relatively modest Belgian capital was chosen in 1958 as a temporary home for the European Union's predecessor, the European Economic Community, partly because it was no rival to the continent's traditional urban focal points of nationalist pride.
