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...In the 12 months to the end of June, fusion companies raised $2.83bn in investment, according to the Fusion Industry Association, bringing total private sector investment to date to almost $4.9bn....
...Office occupancy in the Loop averaged 46.3 per cent in June, the Chicago Loop Alliance reported....
...As Lazard’s longstanding chief Ken Jacobs prepares to step down, however, some have worried whether Orszag — still somewhat of a Wall Street outsider — can drive the kind of dealmaking fees needed to pump...
...You can let me know what you think at justin.jacobs@ft.com, too....
...New applications for unemployment aid are forecast to have edged down to 228,000 in the week ended June 25, from the previous week when they fell to 229,000....
...The research park’s own website says Alder is “a research laboratory focused on mycelium”....
...On Thursday, the European regulator, after reviewing laboratory and clinical evidence, said the vaccine was “safe and effective”....
...Business leaders consider the benefits of a four-day week, Emma Jacobs writes....
...Up to 11m vehicles worldwide were fitted with the “defeat devices” to reduce their nitrogen oxide emissions in laboratory tests....
...Among notable moves up, the South African rand climbed 3.6 per cent after president Jacob Zuma unstitched his controversial decision last week to replace his incumbent finance minister, Nhlanhla Nene, with...
...‘Amedeo Modigliani: The Inner Eye’, Lille Métropole Musée d’art moderne, to June 5. musenor.com Photographs: LaM/ADAGP Paris; Musée d’art/ADAGP Paris; Dallas Museum of Art/ADAGP Paris; ADAGP Paris...
...Jonathan Saunders ‘Suzy’ dress, £790 at polyvore.com 7 Marc by Marc Jacobs AW15 collection was plastered with graphic slogans that recall the billboard style of the team-sponsored cycling jersey....
...LVMH owns Veuve Clicquot, Krug and Hennessy, as well as Givenchy, Thomas Pink, Fendi and Marc Jacobs....
...As it happens, Jacob Ma-Weaver of Cable Car Capital also has an update on Plus500 in his second quarter letter to investors this week....
...US exports of processed condensate reached 126,000 b/d in June, from zero a year before, according to Clipper Data....
...Early clients from his first days in the business include 21st-century figures such as Marc Jacobs, Michael Kors and Tommy Hilfiger....
...A total of 62 out of the top 500 supercomputers use GPU-accelerated CPUs, up from 58 machines in the June list....
...Diageo is to pay $450m for a Brazilian maker of cachaça, the sugarcane-derived liquor, as it continues its drive to source half of all sales from emerging markets by June 2015....
...A champagne reception was held to announce the nominees and honorees for the 2012 Council of Fashion Designers of America Awards, which will take place on June 1 later this year....
...In boosting the role of Hong Kong as a laboratory for the slow and steady liberalisation of the renminbi, China continues to acknowledge the city’s pre-eminence as a financial centre for the mainland....
...Then, in June 2011, Jack himself became the story. On June 27, Jack, 53, was arrested and charged with second-degree forgery and forgery of a prescription drug....
...Kesa expects to meet analyst expectations when it announces full-year results in June, thanks to a relatively robust performance in France, where same-store sales rose by 5 per cent in the fourth quarter...
...The Singhs raised $2bn from the sale of their stake in India’s biggest generic drugs maker, Ranbaxy Laboratories, to Japan’s Daichi Sankyo in 2008....
...Martin Raymond, of the trend forecasting agency The Future Laboratory, says that using older models in 2010 is less about the wow factor and more about reclaiming a generation....
...The Institute of Supply Management’s index of factory activity fell for the third month running, from 56.2 in June to 55.5 last month, slightly better than analysts’ average forecast of 54.1....
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