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Lost is an essential distinction: Cartels, while homicidal, are driven by profits.

Africa's most populous country is embroiled in numerous conflicts that experts say have killed both Christians and Muslims without distinction.

That is a distinction that reflects the BOE’s continued reluctance to employ the “dot plot” favored by the Federal Reserve, which gives the interest rate forecasts of individual voting members.

Their stock trajectories this year seem to support that distinction.

That did not stop most pundits from granting them the dubious distinction of being - along with Real Oviedo - favourites to drop straight back into the second tier.