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...Works by Willem de Kooning, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Cy Twombly join Magritte’s “L’Empire des lumières” (1951, est $35mn-$45mn) and “Le Domaine d’Arnheim” (est $15mn-$25mn)....
...He was surrounded by family in his final days, his partner of 48 years, William L Thompson, having pre-deceased him....
...“It’s the closest thing a man can get to giving birth to a baby,” he says, in an exhibition of collaborator and noted comic artist Frank Quitely’s work showing at Glasgow’s Kelvingrove Art Gallery....
...Téthys, the holding company that administers the wealth of the Bettencourt-Meyers family, who own a stake in L’Oréal, has hired Blaise Duault, a person familiar with the move has said....
...In November, we brought you the story of tech company Aruba Networks that was sold to H-P by star banker Frank Quattrone....
...Analysis by Frank Packer of the BIS and Marlene Amstad of the Chinese University of Kong Kong, Shenzhen, demonstrates clearly that EMs tend to have lower ratings than developed economies despite being less...
...Frank D’Amelio, Pfizer’s chief financial officer, told analysts the new company’s effective tax rate would be 17-18 per cent after the deal closes, compared to 25.5 per cent in 2014....
...In the end Malle was “seduced” by the fact that Leonard Lauder, chairman emeritus of Estée Lauder Inc, was someone he admired. “Leonard and Fabrizio [Freda, Lauder’s CEO] came to see me....
...Pinault, according to the French Quotidien de l’Art, bought a stunning 37 works at the fair’s VIP opening....
...“I would be significantly more likely to encourage a whistleblower post-Dodd-Frank than pre-Dodd-Frank,” he says....
...… Let Me Be Frank with You, by Richard Ford, Bloomsbury, RRP£18.99/ Ecco, RRP$27.99 In this fourth outing for Frank Bascombe, Ford’s protagonist continues to grapple with the ageing process as he deals...
...Moreover, recent rules such as the Dodd-Frank financial reform and the Affordable Care Act cannot explain a trend that spans deregulation during the Clinton and Bush administrations....
...… The Medici Boy, by John L’Heureux, Astor & Blue, RRP£14.99/$24.95 A tremendous historical tale evoking the creative fervour of Renaissance Florence....
...That is the bottom line of Dodd-Frank....
...The residual sugar was never more than 12g/l and in several cases was under 2g/l even though the total acidity ranged up to an eye-watering 13.6g/l (most French still white would be around 4g/l)....
...“Getting the best people on boards is important to getting the best returns,” according to L&G’s Mr Sadan....
...It was built in the 1990s and early 2000s by the late Frank Lanza, a former top Lockheed Martin executive, who scooped up dozens of niche defence companies orphaned by a wave of mega-mergers in the sector...
...No word yet on those weirdo L-shaped slices....
...In Mao’s Great Famine: The History of China’s Most Devastating Catastrophe 1958-62, Frank Dikotter has written the definitive account of the Great Leap Forward....
...“Cyclicals like energy and materials are very good suspects for leading markets [where as] financials have a lot of question marks like Basel III and Dodd-Frank,” he said....
...Charles Mills, a partner at the K&L Gates law firm, said: “It seems there’s no real appetite I can detect to have retroactive application.”...
...Related links: Testimony concerning the SEC’s failure to identify the Bernard L. Madoff Ponzi scheme – Robert Khuzami / SEC How much money did JP Morgan make on Madoff?...
...Will the institutions we work for or invest in suddenly implode, like Bear Stearns or Enron or Lehman Brothers or Bernard L. Madoff Securities? When will the next crisis hit, and who will it hurt?...
...Frank was rude all the time. It wasn’t personal and it was very unfriendly.”...
...The strategy marks a significant shift from that pursued by his predecessor, Frank Lanza....
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