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...These range from an 1865 portrait by pioneer Julia Margaret Cameron ($120,000 at Hans P Kraus gallery) to the young, British photographer Angela Brandys, born in 1988, whose provocative pieces stand out...
...In May, his painting “Past Times” (1997) was sold to Sean Combs, or P Diddy, for $21.1m at Sotheby’s, making Marshall the most expensive living African-American artist....
...Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 was down 0.4 per cent and Hong Kong’s Hang Seng gained 1 per cent....
...In reality it’s more about fashion, with Cîroc promoted as an aspirational tipple by P Diddy (popular entertainer, m’lud)....
...The S&P 500 closed up 1.62 per cent at 2,083.58....
...Tevin Eugene Crosby, 25 Crosby was director of operations for US marketing firm Saginaw....
...Sure I suffered racist abuse, the P word and all the rest of it, but [I] went on and did the jobs that I did.”...
...Halifax, led at the time by James Crosby, took a 60 per cent stake in the business in 2000, shortly before its merger with Bank of Scotland....
...Peter Grauer, Mr Bloomberg’s successor as chairman of Bloomberg L.P, earlier this month embarrassed the Labour party by signing a letter in support of the Conservatives only a day after Ed Miliband launched...
...Not so Melrose’s eagerly anticipated sale of fittings group Crosby, for an estimated £550m....
...(Bloomberg) The scathing HBOS report is out and in it, the Parliamentary Committee on Banking Standards accuses HBOS’s former chairman, Lord Stevenson, and former chief executives Sir James Crosby and Andy...
...close to £30bn, according to people familiar with the report… According to people familiar with the parliamentary investigation, Lord Stevenson, chairman of the bank from its creation up to 2008, Sir James Crosby...
...(Financial Times) OVERNIGHT MARKETS Asian markets Nikkei 225 down -138.86 (-0.99%) at 13,885 Topix down -13.49 (-1.16%) at 1,150 Hang Seng down -169.16 (-0.73%) at 22,969 US markets S&P 500 up +11.84...
...To put Mr Redstone’s endurance into perspective, consider this: he was born before Hollywood began making talking pictures or Bing Crosby cut his first record....
...(Wall Street Journal) FURTHER FURTHER READING - Crosby to give up knighthood. - Trade vs technology, labour market effects. - America’s most profitable export is cash....
...“When I was a girl, Bing Crosby was my favourite.”...
...Halifax, then led by James Crosby, took a 60 per cent stake in the business 13 years ago....
...According to a report by Spencer Stuart, the executive search firm, 57 per cent of S&P 500 companies combine the chairman and chief executive roles....
...There is a slight issue (which I thought best not to raise with Mrs P) that, unless you use an expensive third-party agency, it is impossible to book Moroccan train tickets from outside the country....
...Oil explorer Aminex took on 1.4 per cent to 3½p after saying that it had spudded a well in Tanzania....
...Chaarat Gold , which operates in the Kyrgyz Republic, added 2.9 per cent to 26¾p on a drilling update from its Tulkubash Project....
...Bellzone Mining , the West Africa-focused explorer, dropped 15.6 per cent to 25¾p after an update on a project in the Republic of Guinea disappointed....
...Beleaguered Cable & Wireless Worldwide dropped 11.1 per cent to 17¾p, taking its decline since interim results last week to 42 per cent. Set-top box maker Pace held steady at 46¾p....
...Shares in Petroneft rose 11.5 per cent to 36¼p after the company said it had found oil at the Sibkrayevskaya 372 well in Siberia....
...Petroneft fell 3 per cent to 32½p....
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