1. Even if the tapering is smooth, the Fed could spend much of the year grappling with the prospect of raising its interest-rate target as early as 2015.

2. The upshot: The world's largest economy can still function as an oasis in a desert despite the claims of doomsayers that those days are over.

3. For almost everyone else, it was a year of frustration against a backdrop of better-than-average returns for the most popular index in the land.

4. Although Chinese domestic suppliers have expanded their market share to 32.7% in 2016, the trend was reversed in 2017, as their share shrank to 26.8%, said Qu Daokui, president of China Robot Industry Alliance.

5. 萝丝王在中国长大，在那里学会了计算机编程。大学毕业后，她希望到美国工作。第二年，《中国学生保护法案》（Chinese Students Protection Act）获得通过，萝丝王获得了休斯敦大学的计算机科学硕士学位。2001年9月11日之前，她曾在多家硅谷初创公司（包括成立自己的公司iBizWomen.com）工作。911事件让她产生了创办Binary Group的想法。Binary Group是一家与联邦政府合作的科技咨询公司。过去16年间，这家公司帮助客户节省的资金不计其数——比如美军第20支援司令部（Army 20th Support Command）就在五年时间内共节省了6,000万美元卫星通信带宽开支。

6. "While most Chinese brands remain unknown to the outside world, within China they are establishing themselves with ever more sophisticated campaigns," said Rupert Hoogewerf, Hurun Report chairman and chief researcher.

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1. However it's framed, 2018 was a strong year for many of China's biggest domestic film studios though.

2. 引发收购热议的是一篇路透社的报道，报道援引了一份关于潜在交易的文档作为消息源。实际上，三星已经至少一次地表示过对黑莓的兴趣了，那时还是2012年。而对于最新的谣言，传闻被收购的目标黑莓首先跳出来否认交易正在进行。

3. 5. Zynga. Brand love: -5% / Rank: 5

4. She created a whole world around the device -- one populated by humans, a whale in a top hat and dragons.

5. However Mr Kwon warned that young people should be cautious when seeking such operations.

6. 俄罗斯和北约(Nato)都呼吁缓和土耳其与荷兰的争执。

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1. The registered urban unemployment rate stood at 4.02 percent at year-end 2016, the lowest level in years.

2. 出口的提振在很大程度上源自对美出口，其价值自3月份以来首次出现同比增长，同比增6.9%，至368亿美元。在其他出口目的地中，对欧盟出口同比增长5.1%，至299亿美元，对日本出口同比增长3.2%，至122亿美元。

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