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...Indo-Pacific strategy Indonesia accused over oil tanker carrying ‘stolen’ Cambodian oil...
...For Harris, two events are salutary: the fuel tanker strike of 2000 and the financial crash of 2008....
...Like traditional bonds, they guarantee fixed returns for investors but generally include a small tax reward for the lender....
...“I like that when you put red on top of blue it looks like it’s vibrating. The line, you can’t focus on it.” Notice how much Green is talking about the individual’s connection with the garment....
...The company’s London properties include Royal Exchange retail centre in the heart of the City, as well as a portfolio of commercial property investments ranging from the Blue Fin building in Southwark to...
...Match Group, Inc — the parent company for Match.com, OkCupid and Tinder — is valued at $4.3bn....
...Boeing shares fell on Friday after the blue-chip aerospace group said it will take a $2.1bn second-quarter charge related to its Dreamliner programme and other initiatives it has had to reassess....
...Later that day, Greenspan replied: Dear Sebastian, In 1959 I bought a Buick convertible with tail fins and red leather seats....
...For Rometty, who is under pressure to show she can turn the IBM super-tanker, partnerships like this are a sign that Big Blue “gets it” when it comes to the cloud....
...“Twitter is the soundtrack for television,” said Deb Roy, chief media scientist of Twitter who founded Blue Fins Labs, the social media monitoring firm that Twitter acquired this year....
...On the one hand, the top-down approach associated with such a massive, hierarchical organisation may make it less adept at blue-sky innovation. Samsung has proved itself the fastest of fast-followers....
...“We’ve gone through a period when Australia was the blue-eyed boy of LNG,” says Frank Harris, head of LNG at consultancy Wood Mackenzie. “Now buyers have a lot more choice.”...
...Sunoco petrol stations are a fixture of the US eastern seaboard, their blue-and-yellow awnings touting the brand’s status as official fuel of Nascar racing....
...Were you aware, for example, that 20 species of cetaceans patrol its waters, including the world’s second-biggest animal, the 20-metre-long fin whale?...
...“I think our backlog is too big,” he said, adding that there was a problem “when the market comes back like it has this year and you have blue-chip customers coming in saying ‘we want aeroplanes’ and we...
...for the recovery have become the new hot trend in business writing, seeing the release of a stack of books about “rebuilding America” and “reinventing the economy”, each with a flag-waving red-white-and-blue...
...FTSE 250 explorer Dana Petroleum ticked up 1p to £17.11 after announcing a discovery at its Fin field in Egypt....
...In the last week there has been a significant re-instatement of the contango on the short-side of the curve, something that’s well observed in the following chart from BarCap (note the dark blue line):...
...Note, for example, the convergence in the below chart, where red equals GLD shares outstanding, green equals the London gold fix and blue the daily fund’s net asset value per share....
...InterContinental Hotels led the blue-chip risers, 6.1 per cent higher at £11.36, after reporting strong first-quarter numbers from Starwood Hotels....
...A female blue whale – the largest animal that has ever lived on earth – feeds her calf 450 litres of milk a day....
...The Viennese playwright’s deceitful moral universe has inspired such notable adaptations as David Hare’s The Blue Room and Stanley Kubrick’s final film, Eyes Wide Shut....
...Sometimes, he sits on the deck and plays rembetika – Greek blues – on his bouzouki....
...Nestled among the twists and turns of the Maharajah-inspired headpiece sat an 18-carat, royal blue sapphire by the jewellers Harry Winston....
...One might conclude that free-market economies, with less ability to rein in over-consumption of blue-fin tuna or over-leverage of red-blooded bankers, were more vulnerable to sudden failure....
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