Hints and tips:
...Sales at Christie’s Hong Kong spring auction totalled HK$3.4bn....
...Keir Starmer There’s not a minimum level of service any day because they’ve broken the NHS. (MPs shout “Hear! Hear!”)...
...Charlie Bean: Only if your crystal ball is made of green glass . .....
...As it turned out, he barely survived spring. Black quit the board entirely in March, citing “relentless public attention and media scrutiny . . . [that] have taken a toll on my health”....
...Above Caffè Sicilia is the San Carlo Suites, a charming B&B with views of the fabulous cathedral....
...Company B is a good services company, albeit with exposure to cyclical end-markets; is smaller than its peers; has lower margins, higher leverage and limited cash-generation ability; and went through a restructuring...
...I’d also expect to see fiscal policy loosened. Perhaps a cut in VAT?...
...B: Dennis Rodman got in first as Kim Jong-un’s Best Friend in the west. C: I’d say you should try the Middle East, except you’re a peace envoy. That could create conflicts....
...Since the euro came into existence in 1999, France’s G.D.P. deflator (the average price of French-produced goods and services) has risen 1.7 percent per year, while its unit labor costs have risen 1.9 percent...
...Morley Audio Network Aurox (I) Autologic Diagnostics Avon Metals B B & W Group (I) B&Q (S) Balmoral Comtec Barrie & Hibbert Baxi Heating UK (I) Beardow & Adams (Adhesives) Bestway Export, a...
...Polo Lounge Beverly Hills Hotel 9641 Sunset Boulevard Chicken noodle soup x2 $28.00 McCarthy salad $32.00 Lobster salad $36.00 Iced tea $6.00 Arnold Palmer $6.00 Total (inc. tax and service) $137.45...
...“We’d sell the UK bank and move somewhere else,” he told a colleague. “They would be crazy.” Five months on, his tone, in public at least, was more polished....
...A few blocks from the old town square, cranes looming over the trees mark the future site of the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art....
...After all, displayed front and centre in the tents at fashion week are a number of sparkling red Swarovski crystal slippers created by 18 designers including Manolo Blahnik, Diane von Furstenberg and L.A.M.B...
...price of £18 plus p&p, call the FT ordering service on 0870 429 5884 or go to www.ft.com/bookshop...
...VAT) £67.00Plus cover and service £12.88 Total £79.88...
...d fill my order, tell the clerk, who?d signal the desk, who?d call my broker, who?d call me. You?ve now eliminated all that and given the outside man a chance ?...
...When TVs using liquid crystal displays came along, Sony officials dismissed them on the grounds that the technology was not good enough....
...and CEO, Springs Industries Eli Broad, Chairman, AIG Retirement Services, Former Chairman, President and CEO, SunAmerica Edgar Bronfman, Former Chairman, Seagram Company Edgar Bronfman, Jr., Chairman...
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