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...“What you’re seeing is an expectation of a V-shaped recovery and that may prove to be too optimistic,” said one equity analyst....
...Xiwang Group’s default last month sparked a sell-off of dollar-denominated bonds at neighbouring Hongqiao Group, one of the world’s largest aluminium producers, underlining concerns over financial contagion...
...The sale is expected to reduce American Media Inc’s debt to $355m....
...They argue that it makes little sense to ban a non-strategic company such as Rusal while leaving Sberbank, VTB and Gazprom et al still tradeable in the US....
...… How to be Both, by Ali Smith, Hamish Hamilton, £16.99 The ever-inventive Smith’s Man Booker-shortlisted novel is a tale of two halves: in one, teenage George, trying to cope with her mother’s sudden...
...The group’s explanation is that the deals have been struck between the bankers and a Georgia-registered banking subsidiary. Mr Gilauri et al have normal contracts with the UK-based holding company....
...Collected here are the funny grumbles of the citizens of that commuter-belt town....
...Shi Cheng: Short Stories from Urban China, edited by Liu Deng, Carol Yinghua Lu and Ra Page, translated by Eric Abrahamsen, Nicky Harman, Julia Lovell, et al, Comma Press, RRP£9.99, 224 pages An anthology...
...Citizens’ trust in the American dream has been shaken....
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...However, I have to confess that on the few occasions I have met Bush I have succumbed to his Mr Smith Goes to Washington schtick, the regular- fella-as-president routine....
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