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...Chinese-owned Lisstec markets a cosmetics brand with the similarly Germanic-sounding name Hermuna, which is pitched as “Made in Germany”....
...overseas market....
...BMW Group and Audi have suspended shipments of cars by rail from Germany to China, the biggest market for both carmakers, due to the Ukraine war....
...The goal is to grab market share in the premium segment from Porsche....
...Madrid-based landscaping and design studio Urquijo-Kastner draws on the aesthetics and vegetation of the local environment in its garden designs....
...If there is a broader lesson for society from their success, the couple want it to reflect the motto of Dr Sahin’s school in Cologne, named after children’s author Erich Kästner....
..."Seehofer has lost all decency," writes Bernd Kastner in SZ....
...Michael Kastner, managing principal at Halyard Asset Management, says the lesson from past periods of surges in volatility has been to sell the Vix....
...With the S&P 500 approaching its record peak from March, the rising tide of buybacks shows little sign of easing, said Mr Kastner....
...“It’s certainly a lot of debt sales for markets to absorb,” said Mr Kastner. “Actavis’s offering is a good test of broad investor appetite.”...
...said Michael Kastner, a managing principal at Halyard Asset Management....
...We may see others coming to markets with long-term paper,” said Michael Kastner, managing principal at Halyard Asset Management....
...“We still expect the Fed will raise rates and we could be at 1 per cent by the end of the year,” says Mr Kastner....
...Michael Kastner, managing principal at Halyard Asset Management, said a further fall in the oil price raises the prospect of more underperformance of junk-rated debt, to the detriment of the broader market...
...“Rates are way too low and investors have made a mistake in thinking the Fed would tighten policy at the end of this year or in 2016,” said Michael Kastner, managing principal at Halyard Asset Management...
...“The bond market still thinks the Fed is bluffing,’’ said Michael Kastner, managing principal at Halyard Asset Management....
...Clint Eastwood, the movie’s co-star, once took another actor to the Brands Hatch motor racing circuit near Swanley in Kent to test drive a motorcycle, flouting orders from the producer, Eliot Kastner....
...“Bankers want to push deals and issuers are looking to take advantage of lower yields,” said Michael Kastner, managing principal at Halyard Asset Management....
...“The junk bond market is having a hard time and the pressure will continue,” said Michael Kastner, managing principal at Halyard Asset Management....
...One resides in companies’ hefty stock buy back programmes, says Mr Kastner....
...Mr Kastner says Fed policy has driven investors into areas of the market and exuberance that typified the end of the last boom in 2007....
...The divergence between banks and their price to book ratios is not surprising says Mr Kastner....
...Michael Kastner, managing principal at Halyard Asset Management says: “There is a view that the Fed will lose its nerve given all the market volatility.”...
...After the initial print that was softer than expected, Mr Kastner said: “I was scratching my head when it came that low.”...
...“The demand for bonds has been so great in recent years that people have looked beyond the credit rating as they just want yield – any type of yield,” says Michael Kastner of Halyard Asset Management....
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