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...Shares in Olam rose 2.8 per cent to S$1.48 on Friday....
...Handling the Agatha Christie and George Orwell estates each required delicacy; living writers who rose in public recognition could expect to be fought over....
...At 09:00am GMT EU foreign ministers will meet in Brussels, while at 09:15 the Bank of England’s Martin Weale will speak on the implications of Brexit on monetary policy....
...Already, the influence of OBOR is evident in China’s overseas investment flows, which rose 16.3 per cent in the first 10 months of this year to $92.5bn....
...But although you can no longer buy a baby lion, niche gifts can still be found — such as the bejewelled shoes so valuable they had a live Egyptian cobra as a guard....
...Prices for one-bedroom flats there rose 5.56 per cent, while two-bedroom units went up 3.47 per cent, according to figures from Ed Mead, a director at Douglas & Gordon....
...The average price of a home in Westminster is £1.2m, according to data provider LSL-Acadametrics – compared with an average price across England and Wales of £266,000....
...While gross domestic product in the first quarter of the year grew at a robust 3.1 per cent, the lion’s share of the improvement was driven by the services sector, with manufacturing and construction still...
...In England at this time, the royal coach house and its traffic at Whitehall Palace inspired the nation’s largest stables at the crossroads of London at Charing Cross....
...China is already the world’s top importer of soyabeans, snapping up the lion’s share of that harvest from the US, Brazil and Argentina....
...Although US exports have been rising, household spending still accounts for the lion’s share of the American economy....
...Which country, with one of the fastest growing economies in the world, was the first sub-Saharan African state to win the Golden Lion for its national pavilion at the Venice Biennale in June? 33....
...William Jackson of Capital Economics in London noted that on a 12-month rolling basis imports already rose by $1.3bn in January from December. But what adds to his concern are financing issues....
...Rockhopper Exploration lost 4.4 per cent to 235¼p even after the Falklands explorer revealed details of another successful appraisal well at the northern boundary of its Sea Lion discovery....
...alternative would have relegated the pension shortfall to “a black hole” - Lion Capital in talks to break up Findus: Private equity investor Lion Capital is planning to break up Findus Group, the U.K...
...Costs at Foster’s are double the average of brewers and at least 10 per cent higher than local peer Lion Nathan....
...The transaction follows hard on the heels of Duke Street Capital’s secondary buy-out of noodle chain Wagamama from Lion Capital for £215m ($344m)....
...An optimistic mood at the Frankfurt motor show led Evolution Securities to repeat “buy” advice....
...Rockhopper Exploration rose 10.4 per cent to 255p as Tuesday’s rumours of a positive drilling report from the latest appraisal well in the Sea Lion prospect were confirmed....
...Shares in the advertising agency rose a further 1.5 per cent to 771p....
...In fact, industry experts believe that while Lion is looking to sell the chain, it is not desperate to do so....
...Sea Lion discovery,” is said....
...“There are a lot of sceptics [about the Falklands] out there and it’s easy to be sceptical,” says Richard Rose, analyst at Oriel Securities....
...Hardly less famous than Alexander is the young pharaoh Tutankhamun, and London dealer Charles Ede Ltd offers a rose quartz head of Tutankhamun in the form of the god Amun which has not been on the market...
...It has just signed a partnership agreement with the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews, golf’s governing body, and renewed its backing for the British Lions, the rugby union touring side....
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