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...Investor who came in expecting a bump-free glide towards the global EV mass market should have sold already, while bargain hunters attracted by last year’s slump will probably have been stopped out by this...
...Remember Douglas Gordon’s art installation “24 Hour Psycho”, which slowed down Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho so that the film lasted a full day?...
...The decision to acquire Hunter Douglas was partly led by Daniel Schwartz, who returned to 3G Capital in 2019 as co-managing partner of the group alongside Alex Behring....
...It is likely to use Hunter Douglas, the world’s largest maker of window coverings, which it acquired recently at a $7.1bn valuation, as a vehicle to buy more assets in the sector....
...He made his name establishing long-term connections with his subjects; this show highlights more than 12 of these communities, from the gold hunters of Pará to the Macuxi people of Roraima, northern Brazil...
...Douglas Preston was on his sixth book in a publishing contract, burning through millions of dollars in advances, and still did not have a best-seller....
...The precious metal rose 0.8 per cent to break through the $1,500-an-ounce mark, capping three days of significant rises since Monday. Markets in Europe and parts of Asia are closed on Thursday....
...Elsewhere, the world’s most valuable precious metal is now palladium....
...The precious metal was down 1.6 per cent....
...In 2007 they donated 294,000ha to the Chilean state to create what was posthumously renamed Pumalín National Park: Douglas R Tompkins....
...Beijing this week ordered the company to halt sales of a video game, Monster Hunter: World, just days after it was released....
...“The scientific name for metal killing bacteria is called the oligodynamic effect,” explains the brand’s co-founder Jacob Hurwitz....
...Mining stocks are also in demand, tracking strong oil and metals prices. The Euro Stoxx mining index is up 0.2 per cent....
...But metal bending is not the most worrisome new area for protectionism....
...“The industry is shrinking,” says Douglas McCabe, Enders’ chief executive. “The decline seems to be accelerating both in circulation and in advertising — for print and online.”...
...There was only one sector making big gains — precious metal miners. Among them, Polymetal International, the Russian gold producer, rose nearly 6 per cent....
...Patagonia is no different to everywhere else in Latin America, in that house-hunters must do their homework before committing to a purchase, despite what their heart tells them....
...Across the sector, the FTSE 100’s metals and mining sub index fell 1.3 per cent....
...If a miner’s shares are worth less than it would cost to replace its assets, value hunters will start sniffing around. And that looks like the case now....
...Hunter Hillcoat, an analyst at Investec, says UK miners including Randgold, which has mines across Africa, and Centamin, which runs a mine in Egypt and started paying its first dividend this year, benefit...
...Base metals miners were also lower. Anglo American fell 2.2 per cent to £11.24 and BHP Billiton was 2 per cent weaker at £14.65....
...Johnson said operating profits within its Precious Metals Products division “was substantially lower as the division felt the final impact of the change in the Anglo Platinum contracts in this quarter’s...
...Australia’s dollar has not only been hit by the surge into US dollar assets, but also weaker global demand for its raw materials exports, including metals and energy....
...Some analysts and bankers also think Mallinckrodt could turn from hunter to hunted....
...Precious metals miners stood out, with Fresnillo up 0.5 per cent at 931½p and Randgold Resources up 0.8 per cent at £50.45....
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