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...In one fund, it turned a less than $220m investment in China’s JD.com into almost $6.8bn in proceeds. Flipkart, the Indian ecommerce company, has also produced huge returns for the firm’s investors....
...Peter Appert, a Piper Jaffray analyst, said that logical candidates for disposal included business media assets such as JD Power, Aviation Week and the company’s construction information group, but that...
...America’s fought-over pick-up trucks segment in particular is correlated to the housing and construction sector, now near the centre of economic concerns there....
...Construction and support services company Carillion lost 5.1 per cent to 300p after it confirmed the purchase of smaller rival Mowlem....
...Elsewhere in the construction sector, Carillion rose 6.6 per cent to 719½p and AMEC put on 5.3 per cent to 341p....
...But JD Wetherspoon was downgraded from “hold” to “sell” and fell 0.3 per cent to 248p....
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