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...The party at the back is the rock ’n’ roll 60 per cent slice in equities that portfolio managers hope will dazzle the crowd.” Katie, I was dazzled by this passage....
...Ethan WuB-O-N-K. Bonk, right on the head. Katie MartinHmm. Means something different in English, English English. But whatever....
...“Sable” was Sable Starr, one of a number of young girls attracted by the dangerous glamour of the LA rock’n’roll scene in the early 1970s....
...At a press conference in Atlanta on Wednesday morning, Rodney Bryant, the city’s acting chief of police, did not rule out calling the shootings a hate crime....
...Mr Mercuriadis, the former manager of Guns N’ Roses, Iron Maiden and Beyoncé, has through Hipgnosis raised about £860m and built a portfolio of more than 50 artist catalogues....
...Meanwhile, Amazon has blamed a “bad actor” for racial slurs that appeared on some of its listings, with product images replaced with abusive messages containing the N-word....
...They are poor, though, “stuck with scratch-offs and bottle caps n’shit”....
...When Browne, BP’s chief executive, refused to speak with Fridman for an entire year, Blavatnik conducted back-channel talks with Rodney Chase, Browne’s deputy....
...The key individual was Sir Gilbert Blane, physician to Admiral Sir George Rodney’s fleet in the West Indies from 1780....
...The R&B producer Rodney Jerkins oversaw Britney Spears’ version in 2002, and turned the riff from a monolith into a molehill; Spears’ vocal was devoid of the required raunch....
...Straight Outta Compton, a film that charts the rise and disintegration of the rap group NWA, touches on the Rodney King beating and Los Angeles riots of 1992....
...Befitting a place that frowns upon motorised transport, I hitch a morning ride on the Capt’n Maike, a traditional Miskite sailboat....
...They were pioneered by rock ’n’ roll investment banker David Pullman. Bowie bonds were bought for $55m and allowed the artist to benefit from the payment upfront....
...It is also where in 1991 five police officers were caught on video beating Rodney King, an unarmed black man, following a high-speed car chase....
...Earnings Cineworld H1 (FY estimate) 21.15p (20.30p) RWE Q2 n/a (€1.12) Gazprom Q2 n/a (n/a) Thyssen Krupp Q3 €0.30 (-€0.18) Earnings Estée Lauder Q4 $0.56 ($0.28) Trading and sales update Glencore...
...Earnings Bankia Q1 €0.02 (n/a) Bayer Q1 €1.80 (€1.70) China Construction Bank Q1 n/a (Rmb0.24) Deutsche Börse Q1 €0.97 (€0.92) GDF Suez Q1 n/a (n/a) Holcim Q1 SFr0.22 (SFr0.08) Mitsubishi Electric...
...90.30p) ● This will be Lufthansa chief executive Christoph Franz’s final earnings update before he hands over on May 1 to Carsten Spohr, who currently leads the passenger airline business, writes Chris Bryant...
...Earnings Aveva Group H1 36.14p (32.11p) Diploma FY 34.49p (33.1p) Latchways H1 31.3p (n/a) Majestic Wine H1 28.76p (26.9p) Mitie Group H1 11.1p (n/a) Trading and sales updates Capita, Unite Group...
...ThyssenKrupp may shed some light on a question that divides opinion when it reports fiscal third- quarter numbers, writes Chris Bryant....
...have become accustomed to the German business software maker whacking the ball out of the park in recent quarters thanks to stellar growth in its new cloud, mobile and database offerings, writes Chris Bryant...
...silence the doubters. ● Siemens, the German engineering conglomerate, aims to cut €6bn in costs by 2014 and in November began overhauling its diverse portfolio of businesses to raise margins, writes Chris Bryant...
...), the magazine n+1 has come of age....
...The Directors’ Fortnight had some skittish entries, none more than Rodney Ascher’s 237, a documentary for Kubrick geeks about the hidden meanings in The Shining....
...In a monthly series, Rodney N. Sullivan considers how volatility of returns can adversely affect investors’ wealth accumulation over time. How popular are leveraged funds?...
...In 1997, it became the co-owner of C&N Touristic AG, forerunner to Thomas Cook. By 1999, Karstadt was the biggest department store retailer in Europe....
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