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...The Macklowe auction was seen as a test of the art market’s recovery from the coronavirus pandemic, but this year’s spring sales are being watched as an indicator of whether war in Ukraine, Covid-related...
...Christie’s sold the priciest work at auction so far this year, Andy Warhol’s “Shot Sage Blue Marilyn” (1964), for $170mn in May ($195mn with fees) — below its low estimate of $200mn....
...It also helps investors, explaining the appeal of both high growth blue-chips and pre-revenue biotech wonders....
...Speculation on younger artists continued but was cooler than in New York in May, while sellers who had arranged guarantees for blue-chip works looked like the winners this season....
...Rival start-up Rivian has already launched its own electric pick-up, and Ford is set to launch an electric version of its F-150 in the spring....
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...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on July 23. ©2022 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...This marked the heaviest sell-off in the country’s benchmark bond since the nation’s Covid-19 crisis in spring 2020....
...DS: So, you’re saying that as long as we remain in a tight labour market, this is one of the things that could rebalance blue- and white-collar wages?...
...But some time last spring we began following one another on Instagram and, between our posts and captions, we realised we had uncannily similar thoughts and perspectives....
...Apple is expected to unveil new iPads at its Spring Loaded event at 10am Pacific time....
...If you put all of the blue next to the blue, you have just become dull. You’ve got to juxtaposition, and then make the books sing off each other intellectually.”...
...It was probably afraid of tarnishing its history as a blue-chip company by getting delisted,” Kawakita says....
...The sweater has been well acknowledged in recent fashion: homages of a sort have been popular at Gucci, and Lanvin produced a sleeveless blue sheep sweater for spring/summer 2020 that was worn by Harry Styles...
...They bleed red-and-blue proudly in Catalonia, but not like this. If you pay €110 for a T-shirt, you're an idiot, but you still deserve better....
...Buybacks have become a hot political topic in recent years and were in focus as Congress debated stimulus programmes this spring....
...“Deep ultramarine blue – a washtub bluing blue” is how John Steinbeck, who made regular forays down the peninsula from central California, described the long, narrow Sea of Cortez....
...Ten minutes later she shows off her creation: a chilli con carne made from tinned tomatoes, a sachet of chipotle paste and chilli flakes, served with grated cheese and spring onion....
...Had I been a year younger I’d have crashed out of my job, not in the spring of 1999 but of 2000, just as the dotcom bubble was bursting....
...Mr Lauren is still spry, bounding out after his fashion shows (his Spring/Summer 2019 womenswear was shown today) to take his bow and embrace his wife, Ricky, and children, who invariably stand to ovate...
...It was gone 10pm, backstage after his majestic spring/summer 19 show at the Boboli garden in Florence, where Green is this season’s guest designer of the Pitti trade fair....
...The price tag is equivalent to 25 times Blue Buffalo’s 2017 ebitda and more than six times sales....
...So they showed spring/summer, which will arrive in stores in a couple of weeks. It was their first time doing head-to-toe looks, like an excellent blue twill workers jacket and pants....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on January 17, 2018. ©2018 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...French benchmark yields are continuing to nudge higher — up 2bp to 1.11 per cent — as worries linger about the outcome of the country’s election this spring....
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