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...Relentless Melt by Jeremy P Bushnell (Melville House) A pair of unconventional amateur detectives investigate mysterious goings-on in early-20th-century Boston — but what appears to be a straightforward...
...Compared with Calla and Anton’s passion, the attraction between the two main characters of Jeremy P Bushnell’s Relentless Melt (Melville House, £16.99) is more tentative and cerebral....
...The industry has failed to beat the S&P over the long haul. So why do people buy in? The FT’s Robert Armstrong investigates in his newsletter Unhedged....
...winners don’t always outperform the market: “A good example is [steelmaker] Nucor, which was identified as an early winner in the imposition of the steel tariffs, yet that stock has underperformed the S&P...
...“I thought, ‘Wow, what a big idea’,” said Jeff Crowe, managing partner of Norwest Venture Partners, recalling the first time he met with the company....
...Sigourney Weaver has introduced co-stars to it on set, and when Hurricane Sandy hit New York last October, Russell Crowe tweeted that he had spent the break in filming with his “ritual” brew....
...Better exploitation of Uniqema’s patents and techniques has allowed Croda to quadruple its total shareholder return since January 2009, according to S&P Capital IQ....
...Even the Pop label had become a trap: his symbolic complexity and roots in the American literary tradition of Whitman and Melville had little to do with Warhol’s deadpan soup cans....
...The shares rose 2.9 per cent, to 549½p. ● FT Comment Reed has delivered a solid set of results with steady earnings growth....
...The P-word would surely put people off....
...Last month, the S&P/Case-Shiller home price index showed house prices fell further across the country as the foreclosures-fuelled glut continued to drag the real estate market....
...On Monday night, shares in the company, which has been hit by the economic downturn and the cancellation of several movies, closed at 143½p, valuing it at £67m....
...Bertie” (Firth) did hire a failed Australian actor, one Lionel Logue (Geoffrey Rush), whose only previous speech therapy credentials were treating shell-shocked soldiers back in Oz, to fix his plosives (“p-p-people...
...The shares fell 18¾p, or 20 per cent, to 75p. Tim Melville-Ross, DTZ chairman, said: “Paul’s proven track record of running a significant international business will be invaluable.”...
...In afternoon London trading the share price dropped 70p to 507½p....
...At the end of morning trading the shares were down 39½p at 256½p, while shares in Savills, another property group, fell 5.7 per cent in sympathy....
...If RBS meets its cost-cutting goal of €1.3bn ($1.8bn) and boosting revenues by €500m, this falls to a p/e ratio of 9....
...Reits have handsomely beaten broader stock market indices, returning more than 20 per cent a year over five years against less than 7 per cent for the S&P 500....
...Prices of $50 p/b or less will certainly help. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….....
...The centre, started by producer Norman Jewison in 1988, is housed on a lush 22-acre estate that was once the home of E.P. Taylor, one of Canada's foremost postwar industrialists....
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