Hints and tips:
...When we go to the Moon we're essentially going to be back in the Stone Age....
...“It’s way too early to talk about exits, this deal is just a stepping stone,” he said....
...What SoundCloud needs to prove is it can be the most-used stepping stone between obscurity and stardom.”...
...“We have a saying in Uruguay: ‘Irse despacio por las piedras’, which means, ‘Slow down when you’re going over stones.’...
...Since the announcement last week, I’ve received a blizzard of emails from public relations companies promoting products in appropriately purple shades. Even the Queen is in on it....
...Corporate earnings reports out today include RWE, Alstom, Aveva, Speedy Hire, Vodafone HY, Land Securities, Jackpotjoy, DCC, FirstGroup, McCarthy & Stone FY, BTG, Pershing Square and Smiths Group....
...Not since Prometheus bequeathed the gift of fire upon humanity — prompting stone-age entrepreneurialism of the highest order (me make fire, me then make register of value-added products made with fire, me...
...This week, Hermés launched Le MANifeste d’Hermès, a new website devoted to its products for men....
...I’m a big believer that the regulations we have were needed because we were going to knock ourselves into the Stone Age if we didn’t do something.”...
...Finally in the US, bacon might be about to become a strategic asset after China’s Shuanghui paid $7.1bn for Smithfield Foods, the largest American producer of hogs and pork products....
...Worn with stone or beige chino shorts, a beautiful pair of mid-brown leather sandals is a fail-safe summer option,” says Sanderson, who believes sandals work as well with jeans....
...“Investors are going to have to look under every stone …anything that has yield is going to be attractive,” he says....
...One half of the 1980s pop duo Eurythmics, Mr Stewart is a singer-songwriter and producer who has recently collaborated with artists such as singers Joss Stone and Martina McBride....
...But that makes end-product manufacturers even more vulnerable....
...(Avid Bovelytes will recall the analyst originally slapped a sell recommendation on Goldman back in May, largely on the back of Rolling Stone writer Matt Taibbi’s vociferous take on the Senate report)....
...The retailer, which has 347 stores in the UK, is to open six stores in the Irish Republic in a €2m ($2.8m, £1.7m) deal, which it says will form the stepping stone to a potential network of several thousand...
...While its natural stone products are sold in 60 countries, Levantina has been hit hard by the economic downturn, particularly by the housing market slump in the US and Spain, two of its biggest markets....
...Qualcomm, which once produced its own handsets to try to win wider acceptance of its cell phone chips, is repeating the strategy with the announcement of a Personal TV product, aimed at boosting take-up...
...In addition, while the Virginia-based company sells language instruction products in 31 languages, Rosetta Stone has stepped up efforts to limit its exposure to cash-strapped consumers by focusing on sales...
...SSL, the Scholl products and condoms maker, attracted some interest amid vague talk that it could be a takeover target, although dealers pointed out that the story was hardly new....
...Acal, the distributor of IT products and electronic components, dropped 12.2 per cent to 270p after a profits warning....
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