Bleecker street articles
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The rise of the giant fund: How companies like BlackRock and State Street are taking over Wall Street
Assets held by fund manager State Street are higher than the GDP of Germany. BlackRock, Fidelity, State Street and Vanguard control $26 trillion in assets. Asset managers grew after banks were regulated following the financial crisis
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Sunderland Cambria Street fire: Neighbours describe 'frightening' situation as two people taken to hospital and smoke billows into street following house blaze
Neighbours have described seeing smoke billowing through the front door of an adjoining house and fearing for their own safety after an overnight house fire which resulted in two people being taken to hospital. Emergency services were called to a terraced house on Cambria Street in South Hylton, Sunderland, at around 9.35pm last night. Admin worker Kiera Jordan, 26, who lives just two doors from the the fire damaged property, said: “I was in the bath last night at around 9pm when I saw flashing...
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Why We’re Listening to The Streets Again
This is an edition of the newsletter Pulling Weeds With Chris Black, in which the columnist weighs in on hot topics in culture. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Thursday. When was the last time you heard something truly original? For me, it was 2002. I was a budding Anglophile in my early 20s, reading NME weekly. I hadn’t made it past classic Britpop like Oasis and Blur or the indies of the moment like The Libertines and Cornershop for many reasons. When The Streets’ classic debut...