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...Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin has a notable number of paintings, as did the late Genesis P-Orridge – founder of industrial sound provocateurs Throbbing Gristle....
...Wall Street’s benchmark S&P 500 index rose 0.8 per cent, building on gains that carried it to a 15-month high in the previous session. The tech-dominated Nasdaq Composite added 1.6 per cent....
...Here is a chart of the S&P 500 against the two-year Treasury yield: At 2pm, the press release landed....
...In 2011 when S&P downgraded American debt from AAA to AA+, it cost the government $1.3bn in interest....
...Yoshitomo Nara, for instance, has a ratio of 1.85, Joan Mitchell is at 1.23 but Damien Hirst is -0.15, implying the returns from holding his work are not worth the risk....
...Futures for the S&P 500 and Nasdaq were down 0.3 per cent and 0.4 per cent, respectively....
...That is well behind the S&P 500 in the US, up over 13 per cent, and even European stocks, up over 12 per cent, as measured by the Euro Stoxx 50 index....
...The estimated cost of €100m- €500m would account for a big chunk of earnings, which RWE forecast in the range of €2.7bn-€3bn for 2020, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence....
...Steep steps lead up from it, and here you can experience Alfredo Jaar’s three-chamber interpretation of Dante’s Divine Comedy, incorporating a video work by Joan Jonas....
...According to The Conference Board, five of the 12 S&P 500 chief executives who were fired last year were #MeToo-related....
...significant addition to that super-select band is the Chicago-based African-American Kerry James Marshall, whose 1997 work “Past Times” smashed a whole set of records when it was sold a month ago to rap mogul P...
...year-old company, based in Nashville, is best known for instruments — with brands including Gibson, Epiphone and Dobro — that have been wielded by guitar legends including Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin, BB King, Joan...
...Then, at Christie’s on May 17, “Blueberry” (1969) by the late, great Joan Mitchell sold for $14.5m ($16.6m with fees, est $5m-$7m)....
...Through his trades, Mr Sarao allegedly made $40m in illegal profits from trading so-called e-mini S&P 500 futures contracts between 2010 and 2014....
A joyous, defiantly silly musical based on PG Wodehouse and laced with Gershwin tunes
...“With almost no exposure to off-price, a higher growth segment of the market place with multiple players expanding, we expect competitive pressures could intensify for Macy’s,” said Joan Payson, an analyst...
...(CFR live from 1600 GMT) Food for thought Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson reached the summit of the 3,000-foot rock known as El Capitan in Yosemite National Park yesterday....
...According to the research by John Asker, Joan Farre-Mensa and Alexander Lundqvist (Corporate Investment and Stock Market Listing: A Puzzle?...
...The writer is a senior editor at The Weekly Standard ——————————————- Letter in response to this column: Indignant public may have had enough / From Mr P Roberts...
...Or, assuming Mr Hollande is serious about honouring France’s pre-revolutionary past, Solitude before Joan of Arc, France’s patron saint and national heroine? For some, that is not the point....
...JPMorgan led the benchmark S&P 500 higher after the US bank said quarterly profits topped Wall Street expectations....
...P Roberts, Athens, Greece...
...On Wednesday Joan Walsh of the online magazine Salon discovered that some of the voters she likes best are behaving like bigots....
Mark Zuckerberg’s pressure group shows contempt for public opinion
...The controversy resembles the Dubai Ports controversy that erupted in 2006, when the British company P&O sold its port management operations in six US cities to a Middle East-based company....
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