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...On the demand side, Israelis have been shunning stocks in favour of investments in the surging real estate market....
...In the US, Psagot invests more in consumer companies, healthcare, infrastructure and real estate than it does in technology, because of the higher prices of tech companies lately....
...Purity, by Jonathan Franzen, Fourth Estate, RRP£20/FSG, RRP$28 So it’s not Franzen’s finest — not up there with The Corrections (2001), say....
...There is the redoubtable Zeev Aram’s lively upstairs space in an old banana warehouse in Drury Lane....
...The machines of modernism, including the morass of concrete housing estates inspired by Le Corbusier’s vision and the blank rows of corporate boxes that disfigure the world’s commercial centres, have shown...
...Yuval Ben Zeev, the head of research at Clal Finance, a Tel Aviv investment firm, said: “From being the darling of the markets, Leviev has gone all the way down....
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