Flagged readings for this week:

• Life After Pimco: How Bond Manager Seidner Beat his Old Boss Gross – Time

Grantham Mayo Otterloo’s Marc Seidner is “beating his old boss Bill Gross at a game Gross used to dominate: calling the bond market.

• A Chinese Internet Giant Starts to Dream – MIT Technology 

Review Baidu, a company that has already made computers better at recognizing speech, translating languages, and identifying images, is ready to bring its artificial intelligence dream to the world.

• How MasterCard Became a Tech Company – FortuneThanks to CEO 

Ajay Banga, Mastercard is experimenting with mobile-payment systems, touchless transactions and its own “digital wallet.

• This Pope Means Business – Fortune

Pope Francis is not only a people person, but also “an elite manager who’s reforming the Vatican’s troubled finances.

• China in Africa: How Sam Pa Became the Middleman – FT Magazine 

An investigation into how businessman Sam Pa rose “from obscurity to clinch deals across five continents worth tens of billions of dollars.

Video reward for reading this far:

New world record in speed climbing.

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Have a good weekend,

Cup & Handle Macro Research