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...“The balance of power is shifting to the Middle East in private markets.”...
...One example is Sluishuis in IJburg (also known as the IJ), an inverted V-shaped building that forms the centrepiece of a new residential neighbourhood in North Amsterdam built on artificial islands, with...
...Dawn Holland: There is limited scope for further stimulus via monetary easing....
...She visits the Madison dollar store frequently to supplement trips to Walmart and has just spent $12 on snacks for the family. Demand from customers such as Ms Lewis has fuelled a dollar store boom....
...Ahrendts, the former chief executive of luxury fashion group Burberry, had led Apple’s retail and online stores for the past five years. She will be replaced by Deirdre O’Brien....
...West Kensington’s arrival has been catalysed by the move of the Design Museum from Butler’s Wharf to Holland Park, a final acknowledgment that while London’s creative infrastructure may lie to the east of...
...Searching for more about the crucifixion portrait of the US philanthropist Fred Holland Day, I find this caption: “In 1898, after some months of frugal eating, and wearing a crown of thorns, Fred Holland...
...“If 10 years ago, I would have asked you, ‘What’s more risky as an investment: Walmart or Amazon?’ . . . and if I asked you today?”...
...Source Global Research, a female-led business, is doing very well in the socially conservative Middle East....
...The line, stocked by Net-a-Porter, Harrods and Masons, a tennis store on New York’s Upper East Side, includes a popular drawstring dress with a front mesh panel and sheer side seam details....
...George and Walmart are already increasingly collaborating in areas such as fabric, while George clothing designed in the UK is already on sale in Walmart stores in Chile and Japan, and will soon be in Canadian...
...In other earnings news, Ross Stores, operator of discount apparel retail stores, met analysts’ expectations, as profits for the third quarter rose 11 per cent on higher sales and improved margins....
...http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/115447dc-92c9-11e1-b6e2-00144feab49a.html WalMart workers freed after mislabeling charges Authorities in Chongqing, China, released two Wal-Mart Stores Inc. employees jailed...
...South Africa appeal court dismisses case against Wal-Mart’s Massmart deal Regulators’ approval of Wal-Mart Stores Inc....
...About half its 750 stores are expected to be closed. China’s ICBC gained Fed approval to buy the US subsidiary of Bank of East Asia; marking a watershed moment for Chinese lenders, says the FT....
...record, may increase 25% unemployment Chinese fund targets car-related operations Chávez back in Venezuela after chemotherapy Russia and China haggle over price of gas Wal-Mart may open India retail stores...
...* China and Iran plan oil barter * Petrobras to raise $91bn debt to fund spending program * Wal-Mart may open India retail stores * India expects farm growth to moderate to 3-4 pct in 2011/12 * Chinese...
...Reliance Retail has named Rob Cissell, former chief operating officer of Walmart China, as CEO....
...“Global connectivity is important, education and we’ve recently added chain store metrics – is there a Starbucks or a Zara?” he says....
...In the three south-east Asian countries Collective estimates it could eventually open at least 400 stores, in what it calls its “largest franchise market opportunity to date”....
...Wal-Mart Stores is expected to compete in an auction against South Korea’s Lotte Shopping and private equity fund Carlyle Group to buy Indonesian retailer Matahari’s hypermarket busines, Reuters reports....
...muscles its way in - US cables: UK-China economy summit ‘a bloody disaster’ From The Daily Express, - UK interest rates may top 5.5% - East Coast rail mastermind looks to the West -...
...It has also been planning to redesign its US stores, with a greater focus on delivering digital content and creating community areas for customers, and opened the first reformatted store just last month....
...Anyone told such a litany of restrictions came from south-east Asia would probably guess the place being described is Singapore....
...Stephen Schwarzman, Blackstone chief executive, said more than a quarter of the new BCP V buy-out fund, or more than $4bn, had already been put to work....
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