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...Venture a few steps further and you soon realise that so are the blue and yellow runners that stretch down the long hall....
...The new round of funding, its second, brings some blue chip investors to the lending group....
...All of which explains Jim Balsillie’s piercing blue eyes, sharp cheekbones, and olive skin....
...Steve Rivkin, a broker at Planet Realty LLC, estimates that East Rock’s older-style brownstones and Tudor- or colonial-style homes (originally built for shipping magnates and factory owners) sell for about...
...The latest combination would hand more than a third of trading in British blue-chip stocks to BATS, a company founded in Kansas City in 2005....
...Two paintings – a Blue Period Picasso, “Portrait of Angel Fernandez de Soto” and a water-lily work by Monet, “Nymphéas” (above) – are estimated at £30m-£40m, but may fetch much more, owing to the new-found...
...But, with the pick of the Ballydoyle runners, has he chosen correctly?...
...The Anglo-US asset manager had been seen as a front runner to buy Putnam Investments, part of insurance broker Marsh & McLennan and one of the oldest mutual fund companies in the US....
...Instead, he appeared in the kind of tailored dark-blue suit beloved of global capitalists....
...The only problem for the punter is that the likely runners in Sunday's big race have more provisos attached to their participation than the small print clauses in a contract from a dodgy car insurer....
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