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...Before Frieze, the big European fairs were Art Basel (still is) and Art Cologne, which sold blue-chip art from a glass monolith on the Rhine....
...At Polytechnique, a recruiting ground for blue-chip French companies, he rubbed shoulders with other future European bank bosses including Tidjane Thiam of Credit Suisse, Jean Pierre Mustier of UniCredit...
...“Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen,” she reckoned....
...Cameron and Tyler Winkelvoss are the identical twin Olympic rowers who knew Zuckerberg at Harvard in the early 2000s....
...Half of the ads shown during Super Bowl XXXIV in 2000 were promoting websites at the height of the dotcom mania....
...That means a blue stained-wood area between reception and the restaurant, and a bright yellow booth for making private phone calls....
...and chief executive Mark Radcliffe, who raised £212m selling a portion of his own holding at 262p a share described the float as a “landmark day” for the company and said he was pleased with the “strong blue-chip...
...What’s more, for a commercial gallery to bring blue‑chip art to this place seems, at first, bizarre....
...Swift supply chains In a country where blue-chip companies tend to be in regulated industries — banks or utilities — Inditex stands out for not depending on the government and for having made its own way...
...The blue-chip S&P 500 index closed 1.1 per cent higher, and the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite finished up 1.2 per cent, extending a rally after data showed new US unemployment claims fell to their lowest level...
...Michael Landy: I was at home in Tabard Street and I had just sold “Scrapheap Services” [1995], my fictitious cleaning company, to the Tate, and things had been a real struggle....
...Maintenance is expensive because it involves checking equipment such as pumps and filters, ensuring chemical levels are safe and cleaning....
...Get punchy analysis of the big trade issues by signing up to our twice-weekly Free Trade newsletter Apple eyes Intel’s chips Apple is in advanced talks to buy Intel’s smartphone-modem chip business, as...
...Most are benign, causing blue eyes or big ears or nothing at all....
...They can use this bargaining chip to impact decisions on a more macro scale.”...
...curious companies identified during an Financial Times investigation which, on paper at least, appear to have done substantial business with Wirecard, a digital payments group that ranks as an elite German blue-chip...
...Renfrew is clear that his venture poses no competition to its blue-chip counterpart across the water. “We’re not aiming to create a global fair for Asia,” he tells me....
...According to IBM, “SAGE spun off a large number of technological innovations that IBM incorporated into other computer products.”...
...They were led by a handful of large, blue-chip names favoured by foreign investors, such as Bajaj Finance, part of the Bajaj conglomerate....
...At the same time, he became ubiquitous in corporate America, serving on blue-chip boards for the likes of American Express, Xerox, Revlon and Dow Jones, just to name a few of his commercial engagements....
...three Tesco executives face a retrial (related to a £250m accounting scandal) after one of the defendants had a heart attack; and the SFO is yet to make charging decisions in a number of cases involving blue-chip...
...JPMorgan was a blue-chip corporate bank but found that this business was no longer profitable enough as lending margins fell....
...In China, the blue-chip CSI300 index rose 0.8 per cent, to a 26-month high, as the markets absorbed a speech by President Xi Jinping at the opening of the 19th Communist Party Congress....
...Returning to equities, fading analyst optimism over US “small-caps” — smaller listed companies beyond blue-chip gauges like the S&P 500 — is another warning sign....
...Rosneft officials boast of its blue-chip international shareholders — including BP, Glencore and Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund....
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