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...Thomas Falk, chief executive, said given the input cost and currency “headwinds”, “we will continue to aggressively manage costs and evaluate further opportunities to increase net selling prices.”...
...The cover lot of the second sale, Robert Falk’s “Man in a Bowler Hat” and Petr Konchalovsky’s “Family Portrait in the Artist’s Studio” from the same sale have already sold to a private Russian collector....
...The world’s deepest thinkers have failed to account satisfactorily for time – apart from novelist Douglas Adams....
...This raises the stakes in Russia where, after record growth until last year, sales there will drop by about 60 per cent this year, Moody’s analyst Falk Frey said....
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