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...Processes involved in making lithium-ion batteries include producing electrodes, pasting the electrodes on to thin metal sheets, rolling them up, putting them in metal cans, filling the cans with liquid...
...A sheet-metal sculpture, “Tête d’homme barbu” (1962), is the latest work in the exhibition, with other highlights including an unusually tender drawing of Dora Maar from 1937, bought from the sitter’s estate...
...Nokia, the story goes, didn’t have enough software savvy to keep up with visionary Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and design whizz Jony Ive....
...When the two hedge funds were liquidated in July 2007, Bear Stearns seized the collateral that secured its loans, sticking them on its once-pristine balance sheet....
...What’s more, the model makes sense, given the demographic and housing supply issues, low unemployment, strong household balance sheets and wage growth we are seeing....
...The two 42-year-olds with shared tastes in blue suits, brown shoes and open-necked shirts are co-chief executives of Standard Industries — whose roofing materials shield buildings everywhere from the Alamo...
...Demand paradox: Bulls cite both economic uncertainty and strengthening industrial activity as key price drivers – and these can co-exist in the short-term....
...Kapor Klein wishes that balance sheets would take into account the impact of the investments on global problems....
...The Federal Reserve is raising interest rates and shrinking its balance sheet, increasing the chance of divergences in the value of futures contracts and cash bonds....
...A hostile bid in 2004 for Novar, a printing, metals and building company, was thwarted when Honeywell emerged as a “white knight”....
...Idea carries €6.7bn of debt on its balance sheet and the merger would allow Vodafone to transfer a similar amount from group level to the new company, according to analysts at BNP....
...Freeport-McMoRan was one of the leading gainers on the S&P 500 on Monday after analysts at Cowen & Co boosted their price target on the stock....
...Democratic Republic of Congo will be seen as one of the mining industry’s biggest forced sales after a steep commodity downturn that has pushed several companies to take drastic action to shore up their balance sheets...
...The precious metal has begun the new year on the front foot as concerns on the health of the Chinese economy and geopolitical tensions in the Middle East have boosted purchases of safe haven assets....
...“A lot of the price action is warranted,” says Putri Pascualy, a managing director at Pacific Alternative Asset Management Co....
...Despite sticking to miners with low production costs, top quality assets and balance sheet strength, BlackRock’s world mining fund — co-managed by veteran commodities investors Evy Hambro and Olivia Markham...
...Related links: China: Overborrowed and overbuilt — Financial Times Shenzhen and the art of balance sheet maintenance — FT Alphaville...
...Then, glowing like molten lava, the steel slab rumbles towards a series of powerful rollers that turn it into thin metallic sheets....
...The sale of the US bank is an important element in RBS’s plan to bolster the strength of its balance sheet....
...The precious metal is not abundant and deposits are usually smaller and more quickly exhausted than base metals....
...Paulson & Co also owns a portfolio of mining stocks worth about $1.1bn. The hedge fund’s largest position is in AngloGold Ashanti, where Paulson & Co is the largest holder with a 7.35 per cent stake....
...The fund, the Sheet Metal Workers Local No. 33 Cleveland District Pension Plan, said it had entered into CDS deals with Citigroup....
...“The violently erratic moves that we are seeing across asset markets are more due to investor uncertainty over whether the dominant asset market theme will be weak global growth or central bank balance sheet...
...“Hybris puts SAP on the leading edge of the consumer economy,” said Bill McDermott and Jim Hagemann Snabe, SAP’s co-chief executives....
...Nippon Sheet Glass, which obtains about 70 per cent of its revenues from outside Japan jumped 15.8 per cent to Y110. Nisshin Steel Holdings rose 9.7 per cent to Y813....
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