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...The Azeri businessman, who owns an Istanbul-based construction company called Northwest Group Yapı, had no experience of the grain business, by his own account....
...Over the past few years, it has greatly worsened in secondary cities — Chiang Mai being among the best examples....
...But first it would sell those same plants the steel to make the pipes — at a huge mark-up from the price it had paid for the metal....
...“[The trade war] is a challenge for a state like Arkansas that depends on exports, whether it’s agricultural products or other manufacturing products....
...Chrissie Hynde, singer for The Pretenders rock group, this week slammed a neighbouring block under construction as a “monstrosity” that spoiled the view of the V&A Dundee....
...It can also afford to absorb the costs of offering a loss-leader, possibly offset by cross-selling other products to investors in its zero fee funds....
...It is set to start operations in Japan and, next year in Morocco, and has seven industrial plants under construction worldwide....
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...Gross domestic product has contracted more than 7 per cent over the past two years in Brazil’s worst ever recession as it struggles to deal with a massive corruption sandal....
...The chief argument is a moral one: giving robots the agency to kill humans would trample over a red line that should never be crossed. There are other concerns....
...Flag as Important Biggest IT tariff deal in two decades The World Trade Organisation is expanding its 1996 Information Technology Agreement to eliminate restrictions on the $1.3tn trade in 201 IT products...
...Meanwhile, Qatar Airways has leased an office in Trump Tower on New York’s Fifth Avenue for at least seven years, and Dubai’s Landmark Group began selling products by Trump Home, a lifestyle furniture brand...
...It has become common for advisers to assemble portfolios for clients using a basket of index-tracker funds, and Vanguard wants a piece of this portfolio construction business for itself....
...It is changing the whole complexion of the product mix in asset management,” says Amin Rajan, chief executive of Create Research and author of the report....
...The time of the fat cows, as some Spaniards call it, feels long gone. Economic growth, as measured by gross domestic product, came in at just 0.2 per cent in the second quarter....
...He says that one way to gauge underlying performance is to look at results over a longer period, and to press a company to be clear about its growth plans....
...Mr Sanchez was leading a delegation of executives from 16 companies including General Electric, Westinghouse, Shaw Group, First Solar Inc. and Elkhart Products Corp to tap into opportunities in the Saudi...
...Kawasaki’s local partner, CSR Qingdao Sifang, quickly “digested” its technology and struck out on its own, and now competes with Japanese groups....
...ICBC, the world’s largest bank, gained 3.7 per cent over the week to Rmb4.80, while China Construction Bank advanced 4.6 per cent to Rmb5.69....
...If growth in developed countries starts to look like a “U”, in emerging markets it already is a “V”....
...America’s fought-over pick-up trucks segment in particular is correlated to the housing and construction sector, now near the centre of economic concerns there....
...The Credit Suisse case was one of two antitrust disputes the court added to its agenda on Thursday, giving it four antitrust cases for its 2006-07 term....
...The Westinghouse design is only a paper product. It has never been built,” said one....
...The Dubai Towers are the first project in a $5bn investment plan agreed between the city and the Arab group, yet many Turkish commentators condemned the plan; some said it should be called the Istanbul Towers...
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