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...They were largely in oil and related industries, however, so they will not do much to diversify the kingdom’s economy....
...We’re just at the letter ’E’ in the industry, but you get the point. As you’d imagine, the deals are getting bigger as well....
...was on course for a further increase in short-term interest rates as soon as September....
...A financial industry friend has witheringly described it as being “full of rubbish mining companies”. Over the summer, I congratulate myself on my shrewdness....
...In 1962 he took charge of the company’s Liverpool unit, with 14,000 employees and activities in aero-engines, steam turbines and domestic appliances....
...Back in the 1980s, traders and bankers who specialised in the new and exotic fields of loan syndication and forward rate agreements found themselves in desperate need of a benchmark against which to price...
...Microsoft’s Xbox 360 and Sony’s PlayStation 3 are now nearly seven years old, and both companies are looking to offer music, movies and even live television through them, in addition to games, to reignite...
...That in turn would generate steam either to power turbines driving the propellers or generate electricity to power them. “It’s simply replacing your heat source,” Mr Jenkins said....
...Toshiba is to invest $100m in one of the world’s largest producers of enriched uranium, as the top players in the nuclear industry race to secure their supply chain....
...Under the terms of an agreement dating back to Vivendi’s sale of its interest in Universal Studios to GE, the French group behind properties such as Universal Music and Activision Blizzard could have pursued...
...materials in utility-sized systems to concentrate the sun’s heat to warm a synthetic liquid, which heats water to power steam turbines and produce electricity....
...Either accord – and any other airline deal that follows – would promise to give the combined company impressive global reach, financial heft and, yes, opportunities to raise ticket prices and eliminate less...
...Given that the top companies in the UK’s powerful pharmaceutical industry spent little more than £5bn in 2006 on research and development, a $1.5bn prize should be taken seriously on hard-nosed commercial...
...So did Twentieth Century Fox – where pampered executives had unworthy nephews on the payroll and steam rooms and masseuses in the boardroom on the company dime....
...Over the long term he is planning on advanced coal gasification to provide fuel for combined gas and steam turbine generators....
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