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...rapidly ageing and shrinking home market....
...Claude Piening, Sotheby’s head of 19th-century European paintings, says that these account for 75 per cent of its Orientalist art buyers....
...Last year was exceptional for Europe Inc in terms of growth, profitability and business expectations....
...Amber Rudd, until recently UK home secretary, for a time ran the family investment business and was also director on two Bahamas funds....
...As sociologist Claude Steele has meticulously documented, Asian girls who are reminded of their Asian identity before taking a maths test do better than other girls....
...It has 3D face-scanning security, an edge-to-edge screen and no home button....
...More than a thousand acts signed the letter to Jean-Claude Juncker, the commission’s president, saying there was a growing “value gap” between rising music consumption — which is “exploding” — and revenue...
...At present, JCDecaux estimates that it captures 14 per cent of global out-of-home advertising revenues....
...Any Greek shipping companies that do leave may not have to venture far, with nearby Cyprus styling itself as a prime destination for them to set up home....
...“Israel is among the most unequal countries in the OECD,” says Claude Giorno, senior economist for Israel for the organisation, noting that as measured by gaps between high and low earners the country is...
...It was not clear what insights the group would take home — other than that Mr Buffett and Mr Munger are addicted to peanut brittle and Coca-Cola....
...Passionate about opera, he was often seen walking the aisles of the majestic Palais Garnier in Paris — yet he loved to travel and was equally at home talking about obscure films....
...Springer’s Mr Döpfner then lobbied publicly for Jean-Claude Juncker to become European Commission president....
...Jean-Claude Juncker had a mischievous look....
...He describes the clash with Google as “David against Goliath” – an ironic description given Springer’s clout in its home market....
...Naming Ms Merkel and Jean-Claude Juncker, the next European Commission president, Mr Almunia in May hit back at “misguided” calls to reform competition rules, which would merely shift costs to consumers...
...have called the poll a “blood election”, refusing to participate or endorse a vote in the midst of a three-year-old civil war that has killed more than 160,000 people and forced another 9m to flee their homes...
...Let me offer a final word: we have at home an old dentist’s cabinet that I call the Cabinet of Fashion Curiosities....
...George Osborne, UK chancellor, cancelled his afternoon flight home to stay for the talks....
...However, Jean-Claude Detilleux, head of the development agency, says that at the end of September the number of arrivals appeared to be keeping pace with 2010....
...The art in his collection was cherry-picked by Christie’s – Lichtenstein’s “Girl in Mirror” made nearly $5m in New York last year – but there was plenty more in Palevsky’s three homes....
...Some outside its home city of Frankfurt might think the European Central Bank is about to make just such a mistake....
...Friday’s news of a disturbingly large fall in pending homes sales in April has cancelled out a better than expected reading of consumer sentiment....
...Jean-Claude Trichet, ECB president, is not characterised as a “French” dresser....
...Before the opening bell, S&P 500 futures briefly followed global stocks into negative territory when Jean-Claude Trichet, ECB president, said that the central bank would delay the withdrawal of it emergency...
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