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...This happened in January 1944, at the height of the Second World War, when Anne Frank and her family still hid in the back rooms of their building in Amsterdam....
...It soared by 23 times within 11 trading days as those who had bet the price would fall were forced to buy shares to cover their obligations....
...In Bedford-Stuyvesant, Crown Heights, Lefferts Gardens and Bushwick, sales rose 21 per cent....
...Three years ago, growth in the group’s core search business had slowed to about 11 per cent and was threatening to slip into single digits....
...Brainery hosts a lecture on the history of scotch whisky (with a tasting, of course). 19:00 – Author Jonathan Gould discusses his new book about Otis Redding in Harlem. ———————————————————- Weds 13 Dec...
...“It was at the height of the [Celtic tiger] boom. Everyone said, ‘You had better buy, otherwise you will price yourself out of the market’,” says Ms Flynn....
...The S&P is up 6.5 per cent since its 2-year intraday low on February 11, with analysts citing a range of factors for the bounce back....
...In the case of Square, it was possible for bankers to price the IPO at $9 a share, below the initial $11-$13 range they had given....
...The other shareholders with more than 5 per cent of the voting rights are Guggenheim Partners Investment Management, which has 11.22 per cent, Janus Capital Management, with 11.15 per cent and Wellington...
...It is nothing approaching the run they suffered at the height of Greek market panic in 2012. But all the same, there has been continuing withdrawals....
...Spurs, which has failed to secure a place in the Champions League since the 2010-11 season, plans to expand its stadium’s current 36,240 capacity to 56,250....
...The saturnine Canadian is a ringer for Heathcliff, the passionate outsider who shakes up the established order in Wuthering Heights....
...(Financial Times) Private equity keeps $789bn of powder dry: Private equity groups are holding more cash for acquisitions than they had at the height of the leveraged buyout boom, in spite of a fall in...
...Countrywide was taken private by buyout group Apollo at the height of the housing boom in 2007 for £1.1bn....
...buyout group, has started discussions with banks, including Goldman Sachs, about launching an initial public offering for Countrywide, the estate agency that operates 46 high street brands and sells one in 11...
...“The UK-born Ms Lake was most recently CFO of JPMorgan’s consumer business and worked as global controller of the investment bank from 2007-2009 at the height of the financial crisis.”...
...In fact the majority shareholders of Mail.ru are MIH – 28.998% and two companies controlled by Alisher Usmanov – Ardoe Finance Limited (11.682%) and New Media and Technology Investment, L....
...An affiliate of Apollo Global Management, the US private equity group, is seeking to raise $1bn in a share offering to reduce debt at a property company acquired at the height of the US housing boom....
...Apax’s last fund – which raised €11.2bn – was set up in 2007, with an annual net return of 4 per cent to date, says data by the Washington State Investment Board....
...On August 16, at the height of the Book Festival, the shares of its main sponsor, Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), traded at 26p – down from about 40p in early July....
...At the height of the market in 2008, 11.3m Russians travelled abroad, according to Rostourism, the state agency....
...The following year, during the height of the sell-off, when stocks lost nearly one-quarter of their value, Barnegat soared by nearly 56 per cent....
...They bought a lot of private equity deals you know at the height of the market....
...“The deal was done at the height of the frothy investment banking model, and the company was saddled with $2.2bn worth of debt,” said Tom Williams, chief financial officer....
...But by February, as Aleris bled, TPG had withdrawn its support and the group filed for Chapter 11....
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