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...But then you notice the discreet pedestals at each end of the installation, created by Los Angeles based PlayLab, Inc. Each showcases four “historiated sculptures” encased in glass....
...Aluminium is set to be increasingly used in cars and trucks because it is lighter than steel, which allows vehicles to go further on one charge....
...sector, which is resurging as the US economy is showing even more robust growth,” said Mercuria chief executive Marco Dunand....
...Akzo Nobel’s specialty chemicals unit is also for sale, with a price expected at about €9bn....
...The enlarged group will supply industrial gases used in steel and glass production, among other things....
...Drew Greenblatt surveys the shop floor of his small factory in a down-at-heel district of Baltimore, Maryland, where two workers are using a large steel-bending robot....
...“These vehicles are likely to be a meaningful alternative,” says Marco Masotti, a lawyer with Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in New York, who helps many of the biggest firms to structure them....
...Phillips Specialty Products Inc (PSPI) – a subsidiary of Phillips 66, itself a spin-off from ConocoPhillips – will cost Berkshire Hathaway slightly less than $1bn, but Mr Buffett is not paying in cash....
...● Marco Tang is moving to Baring Asset Management as head of sales and business development for fund distribution in Hong Kong, China and Singapore. He joins from JPMorgan....
...But Marco Boschetti, head of international consulting at Towers Watson, the professional services firm, says cross-border deals are always more challenging than domestic market deals....
...But, says Marco Annunziata, chief economist at UniCredit, even if central and eastern Europe’s growth rate may be a little lower than before the crisis, the region retains much of its long-term appeal....
...Marco, Sao Paulo FB: The persistent contango structure is primarily a function of the extremely high level of inventories, and the ongoing supply/demand imbalance....
...High-end “specialty steel” accounts for 70-90 per cent of output at the big, integrated producers, according to S&P....
...www.russiandesignshow.com Syl Tang tracks trends and runs HipGuide Inc, ceo@hipguide.com...
...In addition, its specialty feed business exposes it to increased meat protein demand in developing markets....
...In other deal news, Gerdau Ameristeel said it was buying Chaparral Steel for $4.22bn. Chaparral rose 10.6 per cent to $83.73....
...Shares of Daido Steel were up 4 per cent to Y753 after the specialty steelmaker said Honda Motor had raised its stake in the company to 3 per cent from 0.2 per cent, in a move to protect itself from the...
...Or as Marco Annunziata of Unicredit echoes:“At the root of the current crisis is an information crunch that cannot be easily resolved.”...
...Heyman Investment Associates, the Connecticut-based investment vehicle through which he builds many of his stakes, was also active in the Mittal Steel bid for Arcelor and recently built a stake in ElkCorp...
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