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...Poly Auction’s total was boosted by its top lot, Yayoi Kusama’s acrylic “Red Pumpkin” (1989), which sold for HK$18mn with fees, far above its HK$7.5mn-HK$8.5mn estimate....
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...The US produced 5bn pounds of red meat last month, up 13 per cent from a year before, according to the US Department of Agriculture....
...Production losses have been concentrated at the red-meat plants....
...Tyson Foods’ plants can slaughter 155,000 cattle, 461,000 pigs and 45m chickens a week....
...Buffett himself comes to collect his interviewers from the lobby, in a baggy pinstripe suit, sensible shoes and a red tie....
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...Huishan denounced the Muddy Waters report as “malicious and false” and days later, Mr Yang spent HK$58.8m ($7.6m) adding to his shareholding....
...The glitzy world of red carpets and star-studded parties is perhaps a strange fit for Mr Stephenson, a 56-year-old native of Oklahoma whose father worked in the cattle business....
...Global insurers such as Zurich and AIG are braced for a tribunal ruling in Hong Kong that could push Asia’s market for corporate executive insurance into the red....
...Half of its local peers saw their net profit either fall or sink into the red in 2015. And for China Inc as a whole, the news was even worse....
...Outside the courtroom the upbeat Thomas, in a brown suit and red tie, gave a thumbs-up and waved to relatives and supporters. But he showed signs of weariness....
...Higher cattle costs resulted in lower margins for its North American beef unit. The company last month agreed to sell its US pork business to Brazil’s JBS for $1.45bn....
...He spent 42 years working at a hide house, stripping the skin and fat from dead cattle. He has no retirement fund and struggles to pay his gas bill....
...Demand is expected to rise as the US economy improves and consumers appetite for red meat swells. Tyson is undervalued compared with peers – the Hillshire deal still weighs on the price....
...Government officials accustomed to counting heads of cattle had barely got used to the thrum of multimillion dollar investments....
...But those able to snag a spot in the cattle car-style lifts, or ride the interminable escalators to the start of the traditional Ikea maze, got more than just a smorgasbord....
...Fine Art Asia, October 4-7, 1 Expo Drive, Wanchai, HK Museum quality treasures from East and West. Expect a sophisticated crowd as Sotheby’s auctions are held at the same venue....
...Ping An stock has risen almost HK$11.00, or 17.9 per cent, since the two-stage sale of the 15.6 per cent stake for HK$59.00 a share was announced in mid-December....
...The hottest July on record has wilted crops and squeezed animal feed supplies, forcing farmers to rush cattle to the market....
...of the methods companies use to assess the financial health of retirement schemes after complaints by business that low interest rates are artificially pushing final salary pension funds deeper into the red...
...Rusal’s share price closed 0.23 per cent lower at HK$4.34 on Monday, a record low since it started trading in Hong Kong in January 2010....
...It was a similar picture in Hong Kong with the Hang Seng index falling 2.1 per cent to 17,864.43, a six-week low, as Jiangxi Copper , China’s biggest producer of the red metal, dropped 3.8 per cent to HK...
...The US’s red meat exports rose 8 per cent last year to 3.4m tonnes, rebounding to surpass levels reached before the “mad-cow” disease scare of 2003....
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