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...The cost of contracting boats for cable-laying and maintenance can be about $100,000 a day, making companies reluctant to risk any action that could be blocked or sabotaged....
...It’s an important win for activists in Korea Inc., where corporate behemoths including Samsung and Hyundai operate without much interference....
...PLDT and Globe Telecom currently manage to build just 900 towers a year between them, so contracting dedicated firms to handle the construction is sensible....
...Beijing has in recent years been attempting to shift its economy from a primarily construction-led and debt-financed model to one that depends more on consumption, but retail sales grew at their slowest...
...Critics see the projects as a textbook study on the fundamentally different approaches of Japan and China towards the construction and financing of mega-infrastructure....
...The family-owned company was established in 1959 and developed Thailand’s first five-star hotel, the Siam Intercontinental....
...Together, these high-tech ventures have benefited from $4.9bn in local, state and federal government support, such as grants, tax breaks, investments in factory construction and subsidised loans....
...Results from the commercial building industry were particularly disappointing, with activity contracting at its swiftest pace since July 2016....
...All contracting companies should consider the coming week to be a final opportunity to demonstrate excellence....
...The construction was chronicled in Flash Boys, the 2014 book by Michael Lewis that attacked HFT for exploiting a “pernicious inequality” unleashed by the NMS regulation....
...In a smaller WTI futures market on Intercontinental Exchange, money managers have a net short position of 6.5m barrels equivalent....
...Those opportunities are gone, says Terrence Martell, finance professor at Baruch College and a director at the Intercontinental Exchange, whose all-electronic energy bourse is Nymex’s main rival....
...He has pulled out at least 20 dead fish, including big trout, which was “a bit heartbreaking really”....
...Public investment was also weak – showing how fiscal stimulus at the start of Abenomics has turned into austerity – contracting at an annualised rate of 10.3 per cent....
...Since then, the company has approached a number of potential suitors, including InterContinental Hotels Group, Wyndham Worldwide Corp and at least two Chinese companies, according to people familiar with...
...The Financial Times reported last month that Starwood had held early talks with UK-based InterContinental Hotels, which said it was not pursuing a “combination” with its rival....
...John Deere, the maker of agricultural and construction machinery, has moved its Russian office from central Moscow to the industrial park....
...The Hong Kong bourse also outstrips fellow US derivatives exchange operator Intercontinental Exchange which owns the New York Stock Exchange and has a market valuation of $25bn....
...For decades, Africa has attracted foreign tourists to game reserves, fuelling the construction of safari resorts....
...Reserve ends its quantitative easing policy of purchasing bonds and suppressing interest rates “It’s important to recognise that the US Treasury market is the most similar to the US equity market in its construction...
...The IT industry has sought to borrow methods from the construction industry, where suppliers incur penalties for late delivery. However, IT has special challenges....
...Activity in the commercial property sector is also contracting, while the expansion in civil engineering was slower than in November....
...Across Ninth Street, Chris Marcoux, who runs Mr Rubbish, a contracting business, was surveying damage to a store where he keeps many of the tools and other equipment he uses for jobs....
...When his mother, the late Corazon Aquino, became president after overthrowing the late strongman Ferdinand Marcos in 1986, the economy quickly went from contracting by as much as 7.3 per cent in 1985 to...
...“Given that management is incentivised to maximise shareholder value we believe that it and main shareholder ValueAct are very open to any construction which may dislodge value.”...
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