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...(A restitution settlement with the dealer’s heirs was then put in place for last week’s sale.) The works were sold to raise emergency funds for the institution, its director has said....
...It’s that their whole legal philosophy derived from opposition to the expansion of civil rights in the mid-century in America....
...The SEC charged the United States Oil Fund, the exchange traded product at the centre of last year’s sub-zero oil market meltdown, and its partner United States Commodity Funds, for “misleading statements...
...Mandalay gave him a $75,000 limit to lure him from Caesars Palace, which only let him bet $50,000 a hand....
...For example, in a 2010 opinion (Chevron Corp v Steven Donziger, et al) handed down from the US district court in Manhattan, the judge wrote that the “evidence at trial established that Donziger, a New York...
...And, as lockdown measures are softened, the return of the likes of Gregg's, Starbucks et al to the UK FtG market will increase competition....
...Supreme Court ruled to end the separation of students by race in the landmark Brown v Board of Education case in 1954....
...Khalid al-Falih had said that the kingdom could participate in coordinated action to help balance the oil market in a draft transcript of an interview that was accidentally leaked to journalists last week...
...“I think you can probably watch Bridge of Spies at home, but I wouldn’t want to watch ET there,” says Obst. “I wouldn’t want to watch The Revenant at home....
...Oil jumped above $40 a barrel for the first time this year on Monday, extending its rebound from lows hit in January to almost 50 per cent, as more traders bet that the worst of a 20-month long rout is over...
...Today we spend about 50 times more as a society treating people who are sick than we invest in research so you won’t get sick in the first place....
...In America, people aged 75 and older only spend about half what people in the 35-54 age bracket spend....
...The hard work of fixing our economy is paying off. In 2014, we were the fastest growing major advanced economy in the world. In 2015, we were ahead of everyone but America....
...Ali al-Naimi, Saudi oil minister, said: “The lack of co-operation from other producers outside Opec and the spread of misleading information and speculation led to the continuation of the drop in prices....
...Think off-duty LA – Victoria Beckham, Kim Kardashian et al scurrying from jeep to studio backdoor to avoid the paparazzi. Owner Barry Jay opened the first Bootcamp studio in West Hollywood in 1998....
...Courts in the United States sided with NML in finding a “creative” way to finally gain some leverage over the South American nation, which had long refused to make good on defaulted debt owned by the fund...
...US officials have defined the advances made by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (known as Isis) – an offshoot of al-Qaeda – as a potential direct threat to US national security....
...The prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, asked parliament to declare a state of emergency after Sunni militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, (Isis), which operates in Iraq and neighbouring...
...(Financial Times) In response to regulation, Goldman ditching less profitable clients and changing rules for hedge funds (WSJ) Argentina v holdouts: plus ça change (Financial Times) Espírito Santo: the...
...paying NML et al, and without the stay in place....
...Although contrast GMO et al: That’s rather more convoluted. In fact, it’s a recipe for a sovereign bankruptcy regime in US courts....
...While the black taffeta evening gowns and sturdy looking peacoats on Karlie Kloss et al shouted winter, the models’ peachy complexions were all spring – try Bobbi Brown’s Sheer Color Cheek Tint in Sheer...
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...has signed a memorandum of cooperation on the first phase of a real estate project worth $2bn with Abu Dhabi sovereign-wealth fund Aabar Investments PJS and Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, the...
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