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...A Galleri pilot screening programme in Arizona for firefighters missed many instances of cancer, raising questions about accuracy....
...The Grade II-listed house dates to 1827 and, like its neighbours on the garden square, was designed by master builder Thomas Cubitt....
...Two books certainly point to a fetishisation of this period of corporate elegance....
...It will have to sell the Evergrande assets in a market where valuations are in flux and where Beijing has prioritised the financial interests of homeowners over builders....
...Broad had gone into business as a builder in the 1950s, throwing up no-frills houses for young families seeking their first suburban foothold....
...Toyota’s success has made the company an emblem of resistance to corporate governance reform, writes the FT’s Leo Lewis....
...Scott Patton, Aldi’s vice-president of corporate buying in the US, says American shoppers want a “simple, cleaner look” in the store and “they want to identify the price easily”....
...One way to focus corporate minds might be to insist companies meet the target or explain in annual reports why they do not as part of a beefed up version of the UK’s corporate governance code....
...It may also benefit from increasing appetite for homes among institutionally-funded corporate landlords, who help to finance developments upfront....
...Builders and taxi drivers are not exactly Goldman’s usual set of customers so it is a sign of the revolution in asset management....
...“It is one of those industrial ideas that the beneficiaries will be the consumers, maybe not the builders and developers.”...
...The writedown did not involve Westinghouse, the US nuclear-plant builder Toshiba bought for $5.4bn in 2006, though Toshiba said it had booked Y5.5bn in additional costs linked to the business....
...Both approaches have their fans, and the diversity — rival index builder MSCI falls somewhere in the middle — suggests investors have not settled on one method as superior when it comes to a choice of index...
...Aabar, a unit of an Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund, and Arabtec’s second largest shareholder, could buy part of Mr Ismaik’s stake to raise its holding in the builder to more than 30 per cent, Bloomberg...
...Esca said in a statement it had taken necessary steps to ensure good corporate governance, saying it had pressed Arabtec to react to rumours and that the company had obeyed disclosure rules....
...“A lack of financing may hasten private builders’ entry into public markets to more easily raise debt and equity....
...Bob Perry, the Texas home builder, was the largest single donor to Restore Our Future in February, giving $3m. He has given $4m to the fund since the beginning of 2011....
...Shares in regional builders such as Arabtec and Drake and Scull in Dubai, and Orascom Construction Industries in Egypt have rallied sharply since Qatar won the World Cup bid....
...Taylor Wimpey was up 6.9 per cent to 37½p after debt ratings agency Fitch raised its long-term default rating to positive in response to the house builder’s recent refinancing....
...I found he was involved in a fake company in Arizona and was associated with more than 150 websites selling tickets....
...Many of the aggressive business builders of the 1990s blew themselves up and, totally unexpectedly, Barclays clawed its way back....
...The broker, which has 20 FTSE 250 companies on its roster, raised £908m (£478m) for corporate clients in the period....
...In 2003, Pivotal Private Equity of Phoenix, Arizona, agreed to pay $63m for Pacific Crossing but the deal fell apart....
...equity-style deals to buy into builders, hotels and restaurants as the market neared its peak....
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