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...Space-age design II Up 1 (1969) Created by Gaetano Pesce for B&B Italia, this vacuum-packed foam chair came flat....
...And the music is great – a fusion of pop, Afrobeat and R&B. I have a collection of... art! I started in 2001....
...Risky risk on Here’s an updated version of one of our go-to charts, sector performance within the S&P 500: The most defensive sectors — utilities, healthcare, consumer staples — are the bottom of the league...
...They are under the 2nd percentile for Consumer Discretionary, Health Care, Staples, Comm Services, Utilities, and Financials....
...Its China activity proxy uses figures including car and machinery sales, freight traffic, and property sales to provide a common sense alternative to government figures....
...People would potentially think twice about investing here in property, which is a big sector....
...Note that we have moved to valuing both stocks on a relative premium/discount to UK Staples vs. EU Staples previously, as we see the UK index as more representative of their businesses....
...Lex notes that the real beneficiary may be the real estate investment trust that owns underlying Caesars properties....
...This time will be worse than the global recession of 2001....
...We are being guided by the last downturn in 2001-03 when, peak to trough, Airbus/Boeing deliveries fell by 30%....
...S&P on Tuesday lowered its corporate rating on the company from BBB- one notch to B+, which puts it into non-investment grade territory. It said its outlook on the company has been set at stable....
...S&P cut DWCP’s company rating to junk, to double B from triple B minus....
...In Asia Pacific equities, futures tip Sydney’s S&P/ASX 200 index to gain 0.3 per cent at the open, while Hong Kong’s Hang Seng is set to rise 0.2 per cent when trading begins....
...(Bloomberg) Dell’s sprawling property empire Michael Dell, the tech mogul, has spent lavishly on luxury properties in recent years....
...The property developer’s interactions with his top advisers, many of whom are themselves prominent business executives, will be key....
...Argentina’s sovereign debt is rated B3/B- by rating agencies Moody’s and S&P....
...On that basis, 40 per cent of the US production and oilfield services companies it covers are rated B-minus or below. “B-minus is a very weak rating,” says Thomas Watters of S&P....
...Meanwhile offshore: S&P rates the parent’s dollar bonds B+ and they yield 12 per cent. Interest paid on domestic debt is also tax deductible, giving onshore bonds an additional attraction for issuers....
...Consider the same checkerboard now, with square B isolated. Note that squares A and B in fact have the same color. They are both dark....
...Duncan Robinson EARNINGS Anheuser-B InB Q4 $1.46 ($1.51) BAT FY 210.47p (208.10p) D Telecom Q4 €0.168 (€0.09) Engie FY €1.104 (€1.27) Hot property For a moment last year, it looked as though the world...
...● Once the go-to destination for wardrobe staples, UK stalwart Marks and Spencer has lost its magic and sparkle and ended up muddled and staid....
...More significant, internationally, is so-called “urban music”, the umbrella term for hip-hop, R&B and rap....
...In 2001, he moved to the French tennis federation, the FFT. Then, in 2006, Juventus made him chief executive....
...Joshua Walker Counsel, Simpson Thacher Joshua Walker is a leading intellectual property counsel who applies his experience in complex intellectual property issues for Silicon Valley....
...And that does not even begin to get into fashion’s evolution into reality-TV staple. Meanwhile, WME has other businesses and investments that could benefit from IMG’s fashion division....
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