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...But consultancy services to help companies improve their ratings are still widespread....
...The company has also removed dozens of shows from its HBO Max streaming service to cut costs....
...Still, some anticipate further market ructions in the months ahead, painting a bleak picture for growth companies rocked by higher borrowing costs....
...Wiley is an American artist who was commissioned to paint Barack Obama when he was president and remains best known for his portraits that render people of colour in the traditional settings of Old Master paintings...
...His thoughts and the painting got me thinking about the wisdom of investing in the latest works of art....
...Dominant tech companies will have to open up their troves of data to smaller rivals, as other sectors such as financial services already do, its proposals said....
...“What I have observed is that the clients normally are very glad that they have used the service,” Herzog says. “I think it is genuinely doing good for people — and they know it is performative....
...In 2016, he paid $500m to buy two paintings — a Jackson Pollock and a Willem de Kooning — in one of the largest ever private art deals....
...The company now has three factories and more than 1,200 employees in China, supplying equipment and providing fabrication services to clients in North America, Japan and Europe....
...I spot a Jean-Michel Basquiat painting on the wall, alongside works by Andy Warhol, Keith Haring and Tracey Emin....
...US economic data this week has been received well by the market, painting a more positive picture of the economy ahead of tonight’s non-farm payrolls numbers....
...Equities investors have seemingly brushed aside private sectors surveys painting a soft picture of business conditions in China and Japan....
...Hong Kong’s Hang Seng and Japan’s Nikkei 225 both rose 0.9 per cent as traders in the region disregarded private sector surveys painting a soft picture of business conditions in the world’s second- and third-biggest...
...He recently advised a client to move a “museum-quality” painting by one of “the great masters” from “a secondary home” to his main residence, for security reasons....
...Consolidated sales across all divisions, including financial services, galleries and private sales, climbed 32 per cent to $1bn....
...Four Old Master works and three Impressionist paintings stolen from a Dutch gallery in 1987 are on the market....
...The two sides have been embroiled in a bitter public battle since October, when Mr Loeb wrote a scathing “poison pen” letter calling the auction house “an old master painting in desperate need of restoration...
...Soon there were multiple paper routes, a painting business, and a job manning the lift at a nearby ski hill. “I wanted the independence. I wanted nice things....
...“Sotheby’s is an Old Master painting in desperate need of restoration,” said Mr Loeb, whose hedge fund Third Point holds a 9.3 per cent stake....
...civil charges with the Securities and Exchange Commission, without admitting or denying wrongdoing, it emerged that Mr Cohen had signed another big cheque – this time a record $155m for Pablo Picasso’s painting...
...“Sotheby’s is like an old master painting in desperate need of restoration,” said Mr Loeb, adding that he was willing to join the Sotheby’s board and that his team had already started to meet potential candidates...
...of postwar Britain by examining the relatively shortlived experiment with military service....
...It was his second attempt to buy the painting from casino mogul Steve Wynn....
...Mr Cohen has since been in the spotlight, recently paying $155m for a painting of Pablo Picasso’s mistress, “Le Rêve”. Mr Steinberg joined SAC in 1996, four years after Mr Cohen launched the firm....
...After SAC agreed to pay a record $616m settlement of civil insider trading accusations with regulators earlier this year, Mr Cohen went out a few days later and spent $155m on Pablo Picasso’s painting “Le...
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