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Barometer | 6 August 2015

Plus: Teaching in China and Hampshire; big cats; Blind Date’s track record

issue 08 August 2015

Rogue traders

Former UBS trader Tom Hayes was jailed for 14 years for rigging the Libor market. How long could you go down for financial misconduct?
19 months (plus a £100,000 fine) in the case of Julian Rifat, former trader at Moore Capital, convicted of insider trading in March this year.
7 years in the case of rogue trader Kweku Adoboli, convicted of fraud in 2012 after trading at UBS without taking out parallel hedged positions.
7 years for Alex Hope, who conned
£5.5 million out of 100 investors via an unauthorised collective investment scheme.
13 years in the case of Nicholas Levene, convicted in 2012 after running an illegal £32 million Ponzi scheme.




Boringly brilliant

Position in 2012 PISA Tests:

Shanghai
Maths 1st
Reading 1st
Science 1st
UK
Maths 26th
Reading 23rd
Science 21st

Source: OECD

Big cat count

A US dentist caused outrage by shooting Cecil the lion in Zimbabwe. How many big cats are there left in the wild?

Leopards 250,000

Lions 32,000
Cheetahs 7,500
Tigers 3,200

Source: Feline Conservation Foundation, Nicholas School of the Environment 2012, African Wildlife Foundation 2013 and WWF 2011

An estimated 10,000 big cats are kept as pets in the US, according to IFAW.

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