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...“I’m just called 10 Foot cos I was always really tall,” he says. Much like Michael Phelps or the Kalenjin runners, 10 Foot’s body is perfectly suited to his sport....
...Job moves Richard Olson, the head of Duff & Phelps’ European secondary market business has left the US corporate finance advisory firm....
...Photograph: Andrew Phelps...
...Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, wife of Venezuelan media billionaire Gustavo Cisneros, has collected work by mid-20th-century artists from these countries since the 1970s, when they had no global presence....
...First, those people who were previously employed in the financial services sector (or, relatedly, in construction during the housing boom) may be unwilling or unable to work in the new industries which could...
...Buying Freeport, which spent $26bn to acquire rival Phelps Dodge last year, would help the Brazilian group build its position in base metals....
...Alcoa shed 3.3 per cent to $29.10, and Phelps Dodge fell 3.8 per cent to $77.07....
...Monster Worldwide, the advertising and recruitment company, fell 11.7 per cent to $42.00, while construction equipment maker Caterpillar fell 7.3 per cent to $67.52....
...Phelps Dodgegained 4.1 per cent to $83.06 and Freeport-McMoran, the copper and gold producer, added 2.3 per cent to $55.53....
...But gains were pared as the persistence of high bond yields and stronger than expected construction spending figures weighed on sentiment....
...Phelps Dodge said on Tuesday that its earnings were affected by derivative losses on its metal trading activities....
...Hughes Supply jumped 18.3 per cent to $45.61 after Home Depot agreed a $3.5bn deal for the distributor of construction supplies....
...More than that, the intensity of the competition encourages different tiers of government to co-operate effectively....
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