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...Continental European stocks latched on to a positive lead from Asia, finishing about 0.4 per cent higher in the lead-up to the European Central Bank’s policy meeting later this week....
...That left an unexpectedly large vacuum of activity early in Asia early on Monday with the Japanese market closed for a public holiday....
...Those days are over, as the central bank data show. Equity investors are emerging to fill the vacuum. Avenue’s deal with Mr O’Flynn is one example....
...Mr Huber is a non-divisive figure who has a deep knowledge of VW and his appointment reflects the leadership vacuum on the board following the departure of chairman Ferdinand Piëch....
...And no bank can survive in a funding vacuum....
...For example, the robots, which have a distinctive round shape with a central power/home button, were the first to have a rotating side brush to reach into corners that other vacuum robots just cannot access...
...The January attack on the In Amenas gas facility in Algeria was still relatively recent and a power vacuum in neighbouring Mali was thought to be providing cover for militants....
...As a result, a growing vacuum at one end of the luxury market is now being filled by US brands offering products at more accessible prices....
...It began life in 1919 and now supplies the vacuum pumps used to expel unwanted gases and contaminants at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider....
...Edwards, the vacuum technology supplier to the world’s biggest chipmakers, has abandoned plans for a sale of the company and will instead pursue an initial public offering next year....
...Whatever happens, there’s a vacuum – and questions about how smooth the transition will be.”...
...Edwards, the vacuum technology company, is to cut 220 jobs in Sussex as it locates all its manufacturing operations overseas....
...The company said it had teamed up with two private equity firms to mount a $1.3bn bid for Maytag, the appliance giant behind Hoover vacuum cleaners....
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