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...Menhir – a sculptural espresso coffee maker by Michael Anastassiades, with a delicate twist in the handle, is simple but striking....
...The IEA forecasts crude consumption to increase by 1.3mn barrels per day this year while Opec this week maintained its growth estimates of 2.25mn b/d for 2024....
...Class B and D stock, which is nearly all owned by Refinitiv and its affiliates, receives 10 votes per share....
...There’s a lot of companies in the double-B category that were downgrades from triple-B. They’re better companies. It’s a different high-yield than, say, 10 years ago ....
...You would think it was part of a script from a budget B-movie if it wasn’t so true”....
...Why hasn’t America produced another Michael Kors or Tommy Hilfiger? It’s very expensive for a designer to start up and get momentum now....
...She is keen to highlight the practical measure of reusing fair furniture....
...As noted by the International Energy Agency, non-Opec supply will accelerate from 1.9m barrels a day to 2.3m b/d next year. The other side of the coin is weaker growth sapping demand....
...A Deutsche-Goldman tie-up would have its own problems, of course, and be far more politically sensitive, but it’d be a cheap deal....
...Among them was Bill Michael, the KPMG boss, taking a break from being lambasted by MPs over audit shortcomings....
...When Michael Dell took his PC company public in 1988, he was 23. That was at a considerably younger age than the generation of celebrated internet founders that followed....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on October 24 2018. ©2018 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...Below are the breakdowns by Prosper Rating tranches: For AA, A and B loans, 69% on a unit basis and 83% on a dollar basis For C and D loans, 63% on a unit basis and 77% on a dollar basis For E and HR...
...Through these avenues, US oil exports earlier this year rose as high as 600,000 b/d — more than the output of Ecuador, an Opec member....
...The medium-term target remains 200 superstores across the UK. Interim results are due on February 10....
...The International Energy Agency reckons the oil market is facing a third successive year when supply will exceed demand by 1.0m b/d, an imbalance that will place enormous strain on the ability of the oil...
...Production reached a 44-year high of 9.6m b/d in April, according to the Energy Information Administration....
...Among the market-goers is a bright-eyed entrepreneur, Michael Steinmetz, a native of Venezuela based in San Francisco....
...Among them was Zoetis, the animal health group in which he recently amassed a stake and suggested as a Plan B target....
...of R&D investment large drugmakers should fund....
...So as well as Chinese ceramics, visitors can admire European furniture, a Giacometti lamp or a Fabergé seal (until Monday)....
...“I went to university with the hope I’d be paid more and be able to live a good life, maybe one day even owning a home,” says Siobhan Enthoven, Ms Crisman’s 27-year-old daughter....
...In the same month, China’s net oil imports surged to 6.12m b/d, according to Chinese customs.”...
...The Association of Oil Pipe Lines said new US pipeline capacity totalling 500,000 b/d came into operation last year. US crude output rose 780,000 b/d last year, the government estimates....
...Most of the others, unlike him, are heritage acts from the pre-download era; they include David Coverdale of 1980s rockers Whitesnake and Chuck D, leader of seminal rappers Public Enemy....
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