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...Average asking prices in Paris fell 6 per cent in the year to September, according to Meilleurs Agents....
...offers free tastings on Saturdays from 2pm to 6pm Wines: From $13 to $6,000 Website; Directions Le Dû Wines was founded by the legendary sommelier Jean-Luc Le Dû, who opened the store in 2005....
...Although it’s got an old town with more charm, the similarly utilitarian-style buildings of Les Deux Alpes (also known as Les 2 Alpes) are getting a makeover....
...Now Christie’s Paris has another Chardin still life, his “Le melon entamé” (1760), a rare oval work estimated at between €8mn and €12mn at a sale on June 12....
...ECB vice-president Luis de Guindos told Le Monde in an interview published on Tuesday that this was now a “fait accompli” as long as price pressures remained in check....
...The chancellor of a cash-strapped central European country known for its cobalt mines and beet fields, Elena Vernham is a curious composite of Putinesque paranoia, Marine Le Pen-style father complex and...
...While the prime area for chalets in Crans are Plans-Mayens, Les Briesses and around the golf course, there’s more space to build in Montana — home to a big development of apartments, Résidence Le Guépard...
...Sotheby’s is set to make an auction record for the British-born Surrealist painter Leonora Carrington with “Les Distractions de Dagobert” (1945), estimated between $12mn and $18mn....
...Average list prices increased 34 per cent between September 2019 and September 2023, according to Meilleurs Agents....
...Tu Le, founder of the Sino Auto Insights consultancy, said local rivals including Xpeng, Nio and Li Auto had their own self-driving systems and would drop their prices “the second” they thought consumers...
...Ils sont les meilleurs. Sie sind die Besten. These are the champions. Look at their unsmirking faces....
...The nearly month-long trial captivated the fine art world, not just because of the four masterpieces that were in contention, including one of Gustav Klimt’s “Water Snakes”, a Rene Magritte “Le Domaine D...
...Chart du jour: Power grab French far-right leader Marine Le Pen kicked off her EU election campaign yesterday by vowing to wrest back powers from an “intrusive and authoritarian” bureaucracy in Brussels...
...He has alleged that Bouvier sold him René Magritte’s “Le Domaine d’Arnheim” and Amedeo Modigliani’s “Tête” for substantially more than he had paid for them at Sotheby’s, and that the auction house provided...
...When he sat down with Madison for Lunch with the FT last year at Le Bernardin, he made his reservation under the pseudonym Hank Paulson....
...Chairwoman Le Thi Thu Thuy shared her reasons for optimism at the Nikkei and Financial Times’ Asia Green Tech Summit....
...Average list prices in the 10th and 11th arrondissements are €9,806 and €10,128 per sq m respectively, according to French property website Meilleurs Agents....
...Finance minister Bruno Le Maire has threatened to impose special taxes on food companies that do not pass on lower prices to consumers in order to claw back “undue” profits as their costs have fallen....
...“For any doubters left in the west, I hope this is the final data point that points to BYD’s strength and, as importantly, how ‘China EV Inc’ has bullied its way on to the global stage,” said Tu Le, founder...
...The works, collected by the late Rotterdam shipping magnate Willem Cordia and his wife, Marijke Cordia-van der Laan, span the 19th century — such as Edgar Degas’s “Le petit déjeuner après le bain” (c1894...
...Tu Le, founder of Sino Auto Insights, said the US still led China in several of the technologies underpinning key areas of autonomous driving including machine learning and sensors....
...Aiways’ investors were now wary of “throwing good money after bad”, said Le....
...The stricter rules, unveiled by French finance minister Bruno Le Maire, will reverberate outside of France because many asset managers market the same ESG funds across Europe in order to minimise duplication...
...He is effectively China’s Elon . . . if we are looking at branding, looking at bold moves,” said Tu Le, founder of Beijing-based advisory company Sino Auto Insights....
...“Four to five years ago no one would have thought that Chinese EVs would have the quality or reliability to compete,” said Tu Le, founder of Sino Auto Insights, a Beijing consultancy....
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