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...Their performance was helped by a few big successes such as insurance group Skyward Specialty, which has risen 125 per cent since listing a year ago, and Rayzebio, which is up 244 per cent, driven by news...
...Gains for companies such as insurance group Skyward Specialty and biotech company Rayzebio more than offset losses for high profile tech flops like Instacart....
...But funds at the company were short. “We didn’t have any money for advances at first, we just said: ‘Go do it and we’ll pay you a royalty,’” says Wheeler....
...Specialty chemicals group Croda topped the FTSE 100 on Tuesday morning, on a positive morning that also saw bookmakers benefit from the publication of a long-delayed report on betting machines....
...Debt has been cut to less than three times ebitda but Nicholas Hyett, analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, said that deal would “soak up cash for years to come”....
...The company also benefited from the later timing of Easter....
...The company said it is “fully committed to say no to PPG”, but said it will consider “various alternative ownership structures”, including a separate listed entity, for its specialty chemicals unit, which...
...Specialty chemicals group Elementis was the biggest riser on Friday, with shares up 8.5 per cent after it announced a $360m deal to buy SummitReheis, a US-based company that specialises in ingredients for...
...Shares in FTSE 250 specialty chemicals group Synthomer leapt to an all-time high on Friday morning, after the company said trading in the fourth quarter was better than expected....
...FTSE 100 specialty chemicals group Johnson Matthey was boosted by the weak pound in its first half, but weakness in the oil and gas industry weighed on revenues and profits....
...However, accounting costs related to the takeover pushed the company to a quarterly loss of $387m....
...Last month the Competition and Markets Authority said it is investigating “unfair treatment” in online gambling in particular, Paddy Power-Betfair’s specialty....
...Shire plans to save around $700m from integrating both companies within three years....
...The specialty chemicals and sustainable technology company is also set to benefit from sterling’s recent weakness, predicting an additional £25m full-year profit if current foreign exchange rates are maintained...
...The plunge in sterling since the UK’s vote to leave the EU has helped revenues at Johnson Matthey, but the specialty chemicals maker warned that uncertainty about the future of its overseas workers was hurting...
...Photographs: Andrew Rowat; Andrew Toth/Getty Images; Nicholas Alan/The Metropolitan Museum of Art...
...Loek Beeren is the general manager from Vermaat Groep, the company that runs all the hospitality areas in the museum....
...It is an industry tenet that tech companies are vampires draining money from music’s creators....
...The first was the firemen’s red-and-white hoses, woven together to line the ceiling, forming an absorbent acoustic system for the restaurant....
...He is working with a French university on an acoustic research project and suggests patent applications may come soon....
...In creating the Angel Place hall, architect Andrew Andersons drew inspiration from several European opera houses, and Pinchgut’s productions revel in the clean, rich acoustics....
...Didier Sornette began studying financial market bubbles and crashes more than 20 years ago as an extension to his work predicting the crash of rockets from acoustic emissions....
...But expertise of this sort takes time to develop and these are the first steps on an acoustic journey....
...Brazilian superstar Gilberto Gil is perched on a high stool not three metres in front of me, cradling his acoustic guitar as his creamy voice swoops high into the whooping chirping Tropicalia rhythms....
...Both companies make their money by putting on Tosca and La traviata in the main theatre....
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