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...The World Bank and IMF met for the start of their spring jamboree in Washington yesterday....
...They feed on a broth that contains nutrients like carbohydrates, amino acids, minerals, fats and vitamins....
...But Forrest wasn’t searching for mineral deposits — he was on the hunt for clean energy....
...He was certainly able to forge relationships with the gatekeepers to Africa’s bounty of minerals....
...The Chicago-based company Nature’s Fynd makes protein using microbes found in the volcanic springs of Yellowstone Park....
...Up to the mid-19th century, the village of Camberwell was known among Londoners for its rural tranquility and the reputed healing properties of its mineral springs, supplying the well from which it takes...
...Associate Professor Julie Law, who studies gene regulation, shows me around....
...goods company said that although Mr Peltz had failed by a hair to unseat any member of the existing board, the result was “extremely close” and it would add him to an expanded board of directors in the spring...
...Cold weather curbed buying of spring garments. Prosecco is one commodity Brits are buying more of, according to Bloomberg....
...Luke French, an associate director at Savills, agrees. “Rarely do these estates make money.”...
...I even quite liked the musky mineral pong of that unbearably up-itself Terre d’Hermès aftershave (£47)....
...A consultant visits Tony Blair Associates to advise on new offices overseas*. Blair: What’s your thinking? Consultant: Stable democracies with diversified economies are popular. B: Not at TBA....
...While the Bank of Japan is expected to further ease this spring, hard as that is to imagine, given the scale of what it has done so far, little of that money will go to buoy Japan’s neighbours....
...Trading over Christmas was dire and Elliott Associates, the US activist hedge fund, has been building a stake....
...The first public waterfront space will be ready in spring next year, although the entire 10-hectare development could take several more years....
...The WSJ spotted the latest report on VC returns from Cambridge Associates: Their U.S....
...plain cigarette packaging: New Zealand’s government will bring in the legislation to cut the appeal of smoking, although it will delay implementation until legal disputes faced by Australia are resolved, Associate...
...Rothschild and his associates were to gain control of the Board ....
...Investor support for Mr Woodford came mainly from US funds such as Harris Associates and Southeastern Asset Management....
...window into the logic behind Russia’s vote to block UN sanctions against Syria, warning that the world faced a growing “cult of violence” stoked by western interference and raising the spectre of the Arab Spring...
...Tega makes products for use in mineral processing, material handling and grinding. TA Associates, previously, has invested in companies such as mobile phone manufacturer Micromax Informatics....
...Evan Calio, at Morgan Stanley, said that the WTI-Brent discount could expand to $50 a barrel by next spring....
..., said Wednesday it held talks with Anglo American, the London-listed mining group, and China Investment Corp, the $200bn sovereign wealth fund, and had hired JPMorgan, Azure Capital and Grant Samuel & Associates...
...The British organic luxury brand presenting its spring/summer 2009 women’s wear collection in Milan has engaged Blackstone Group to help it field investment offers....
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