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...The Nasdaq biotechnology index is trading more than 20 per cent lower than its 2021 peak, compared with a decline of about 10 per cent in the wider S&P 500 for the same period....
...The company has announced an interim dividend of $101m ($0.9531 p/s) and is launching a new $67.3m share buyback today....
...On average, S&P 500 chiefs earn well over double those in the FTSE....
...significant addition to that super-select band is the Chicago-based African-American Kerry James Marshall, whose 1997 work “Past Times” smashed a whole set of records when it was sold a month ago to rap mogul P...
...“There is sophisticated Asian interest this year,” said Iwan Wirth, president of Hauser & Wirth, whose sales included Eva Hesse’s “No title” (1961, $2.5m) to a Chinese museum....
...Hauser & Wirth is showing Arshile Gorky; Paul Kasmin has Lee Krasner. Even the living artists will be shown in an older, art historical context — Hans P....
...Overall, the S&P 500 rose 0.31 per cent to 2,100.80....
...The company confirmed that Wolfhart Hauser would take over from John McFarlane as chairman, and said finance director Chris Surch would retire in January 2016....
...Alfred P Sloan He trained as an electrical engineer and started in business devising roller bearings, writes Robert Wright....
...A year ago, the stock was trading on a forward p/e of about 19 times, yet it now trades on about 22 times....
...Rapper P Diddy bought a Tracey Emin neon for £45,000 at Lehmann Maupin, while Lisson gallery celebrated selling a remarkable 14 works on the opening day alone....
...The shares closed up 17½p at 861½p. The company is one of the largest by market capitalisation in the FTSE 250 index....
...Product testing company Intertek gained 0.7 per cent to £10.55 after Wolfhart Hauser, its chief executive, told a Goldman Sachs industry conference that there had been no slowdown in key markets....
...Profits beat analysts’ forecasts and the shares were 2.6 per cent higher, up 23½p to 919½p in early trading....
...Woods is Hauser fellow and lecturer at the Harvard Law School human rights programme. ………………………....
...In 1989, Sir Richard Friend, a Cambridge professor, discovered certain light-emitting characteristics of the polymer poly p-phenylene vinylene....
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