Iran war’s gas supply shock pushes top consumers back to coal
Energy shortages force countries to revive coal plants, with Asia leading the shift as LNG costs surge and supply tightens.
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South African particle physicist who wrote programming languages became a financial engineer and made billions
A South African born to immigrant parents physicist turned financial engineer, Emanuel Derman, helped define modern quantitative finance after an early career in programming language and modelling system development.
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The South African banking CEO who became a Knight
Bradley Fried was a bored accountant in Cape Town until one phone call with Wall Street legend John Wolfensohn changed his life.