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...Research by Dr Javier Garcia Bernardo at Utrecht University found that while Luxembourg and Norway have similar levels of statutory tax, multinational companies in Luxembourg paid as little as 1 per cent...
...The excitement has died down since the r/WallStreetBets Reddit chatroom has dropped out of the headlines....
...A Dr Dre protégé and polymath — he sings, raps, drums, produces — the 33-year-old Californian’s music is rooted in hip-hop and funk, while blending soul, jazz, gospel, R’n’B, psych and “sad white-boy music...
...Add on the sale of Bayer’s Coppertone sun care and Dr Scholl’ s foot care product lines, also outlined on Thursday, and Bernstein arrives at a total take of about €7bn....
...The two vice-chairmen currently in charge of R&D will resign and become advisers....
...Read Javier Espinoza's full story here. China and India: friends at last? Little hope remained for Fosun’s proposed buyout of India’s Gland Pharma....
...(FT) Glencore/Rio: stoked Lex takes a look at Glencore’s bid to acquire Rio Tinto’s coal assets in New South Wales for $2.55bn, and how it confirms a hunger for expansion....
...“They all said, ‘We think the shift to electric vehicles is accelerating and we have only limited R&D money to invest and we are going to put all of it into the electric car revolution’,” Mr Robson says....
...Enrique L Rios Jr, 25 Rios was from Brooklyn, according to his Facebook page....
...Dr Prado Neto, head of Brazil’s Plastic Surgery Society: says: “Men are working in industries where appearance is very important....
...“They were the ugly duckling; no one had given them any attention in the HIV vaccine research field,” explains Dr Cunha-Neto....
...“We have forecast demand decline in Europe, and that is what we feel,” said Dr Karl-Ulrich Köhler, managing director of the European operations of Tata Steel, the India-based group....
...Operations are performed by resident physicians who are training at Dr Pitanguy’s private clinic and who volunteer at the ward in Santa Casa hospital....
...The red metal’s sensitivity to the strength of the global economy has earned it the nickname Dr Copper....
...“Bottom-of-pyramid” sales were R$1.3bn of a total R$16bn revenue in Brazil in 2009, and grew at 27 per cent over 2008: twice the national average and four times the global rate....
...The 28-year contract requires investments of about R$650m but gives the winner rights to commercial revenues and tariffs perhaps worth R$239m by 2038....
...It rose this week to R$1.736 per dollar. The real is trading less than 10 per cent below the decade high it set in August 2008 of R$1.55. The other currency wild card is China’s renminbi....
...at R$3.6bn ($2bn)....
...Liposuction will cost you between R$5,000 ($2,900) and R$8,000 on average, and implants R$6,000-R$10,000....
...Bandleader Wynton Marsalis, cerebral rockers Wilco and veteran soul singer Etta James join hundreds of local jazz, blues, R&B and zydeco acts performing across 12 stages just outside the city’s fabled French...
...Intel chose to respond to this recession with continued investment in R&D and manufacturing capability....
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