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...Sachs, JPMorgan and other western groups that spent years building up often-unprofitable investment banking units in mainland China, the upcoming Shanghai initial public offering of Syngenta should be a dream...
...Luton Town are one of English football’s fairytales — the club sank all the way into non-league and almost went out of business, before being rescued by local fans....
...Diletta Giorgolo, head of residential at Italy Sotheby’s International Realty, describes Sicily’s “environmental low-impact lifestyle” as a big draw for foreign buyers....
...Some people’s dreams of home ownership have been put back by years. Producer Ollie Ireland, 26, has been saving for the past few years to buy a one-bedroom flat in London, where she grew up....
...Plus, a classic Provençal mas in towns and villages like Ménerbes, St-Rémy, L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, Gordes (where Knight Frank is selling a seven-bedroom house for €2.35mn) and, of course, Cézanne’s native...
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on August 5 2022. ©2022 Nikkei Inc....
...Hailing a driverless car to get from one part of town to another feels like living in the future....
...New York-listed Digital Realty will acquire a 55 per cent stake in South Africa’s Teraco, which operates some of the continent’s biggest “carrier neutral” data centres in Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban...
...The sentiment is keenly felt in his recent project, a public playground that opened in October in the German town of Monheim....
...This article is part of a guide to New York from FT Globetrotter Few of us dream of ending up middle-aged in New Jersey. Unless, that is, you end up in Montclair, New Jersey....
...From December 1, Facebook Inc’s stock ticker FB will be relegated to the dust of time....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on February 1 2022. ©2022 Nikkei Inc....
...But the property-developer dream faded after an MBA at UCLA’s business school....
...Now, despite anecdotal accounts that the pandemic has persuaded hundreds to follow their Caribbean dreams, a vast supply of new builds is proving difficult to shift, and some sellers are having to reduce...
...“It’s really a town centre more than a mall.” A few years ago Marx considered tinkering with the formula. At the time, the $3bn American Dream was under construction and the talk of the mall world....
...“We’re seeing people looking for outside space, getting away from density,” says Kevin Skipworth, owner of Dexter Realty in Vancouver....
...But as Walmart charts its American dream elsewhere, the Issa brothers and TDR have a chance to rewrite the US-born growth strategy that Asda has struggled to translate in the UK....
...Its cutting-edge technology is supposed to allow financial institutions “to send money across borders, instantly, reliably and for fractions of a penny”, by the power of its immutable digital dream-ledger...
...Real estate agents in the seaside towns of the Hamptons outside New York City are having a bumper year for both rentals and sales as the Wall Street crowd seeks refuge....
...Like Twin Peaks and Stranger Things, Dark leans heavily on the potential for horror and unease in the small town....
...(New York Magazine) Digital diplomacy Disney’s dreams of breaking the box office with its $200m Mulan live-action remake aren’t over....
...“Every time we went into town, I went to the bookstore.”...
...Ali Carter, economic development co-ordinator in Arlington, said the town of about 45,000 decided to act after 17 units on a single block were left unoccupied....
...Sotheby’s International Realty is marketing a 400 sq metre villa in Trsteno, a half-hour drive away, for €1.42m....
...There are new bogeymen in town and the most visible is Uber....
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