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...Germany’s benchmark 10-year yield rose above 2 per cent for the first time in 11 years, while the Dax-40 share index of blue-chip German companies fell 1.4 per cent to its lowest level for almost two years...
...And those coils of steel and aluminium within two weeks are driving off the plant as vehicles....
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...Blue Ribbon Sports became Nike, Quantum Computer Services became America Online (AOL) and AuctionWeb became eBay....
...They look like astronauts, dressed in blue suits and white anti-static boots....
...He says a “deep sickness” in UK capital markets has stifled the growth of tech entrepreneurs and left London’s blue-chip FTSE 100 looking like an index from the 19th century....
...Veteran M&A lawyers such as Jacobs have decades of experience spent navigating the legal landmines underlining big deals, which will come in handy as he advises JPMorgan’s blue-chip clients on challenges...
...“If you’re a big blue-chip company, you have your own ways to solve your problems in China....
...Once the capillaries of wireless networks, the steel structures have become surplus to requirements for debt-laden European telecoms companies looking to make some cash....
...Kilar grew up in working-class Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, a city best known for its steel industry and football team....
...More than 40 big companies, including Mars Inc, PepsiCo and Unilever, are now experimenting with reusable packaging, according to the foundation....
...Blue-chip US companies are confident they can pass on rising costs to their customers and protect record profit margins as inflationary pressure is offset by buoyant business and consumer sentiment....
...Three: invest some of the excess capital in publicly traded, blue-chip stocks. Four: hold the rest in treasuries and cash, a war chest for when the next deal presents itself....
...Both come in a range of bright colours including blue, pink and yellow, rather than the gold, silver and grey of the more expensive version....
...Only 4 per cent of drivers are aged under 25, according to ATA, suggesting the industry is struggling to lure younger workers who have plenty of options in construction, energy and other blue-collar sectors...
...Resilience has also spread from the Portakabins of hard-hatted operations directors in steel-capped boots, to MBA programmes and primary schools....
...And that was largely because blue-collar voters like them chose him and his promise to revive American manufacturing....
...“It’s a very blue-collar, very American, culture,” said one former director....
...1.5 per cent lower, and those for the blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial Average — which is more heavily weighted towards affected industrial stocks — down 2 per cent....
...A vast steel mill dominates the skyline, a reminder of Ford’s vision that the plant would take in iron ore at one end and disgorge Ford Model As at the other....
...Today’s worry, of course, is that we start with tariffs on aluminium and steel and end up in a digital trade war that cannot be won....
...One study found the Bush administration’s steel move led to 200,000 Americans — more than were employed in the entire US steel industry — losing their jobs due to higher steel prices....
...Forever in blue jeans, with a splash of Warhol on the side. Photographs: Catwalking.com...
...“What the Chinese dream is about is blue sky and blue water,” says Karine Hirn, partner at EastCapital, an emerging market asset manager....
...He rarely mentions 21st-century tech champions such as Amazon or Apple — or the way that blue-collar steel towns such as Pittsburgh and Cleveland have become white-collar innovation centres built around...
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