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...Not only did he rebuild the foundation with a stone base and latticed wooden floor, but he fitted a metal sheet under the roof felt to ensure that not a drop of rain now gets inside....
...Ross Goobey managed the remarkable feat of persuading the fund’s trustees to let him invest in equities and dump the fund’s gilts....
...Vacations are rarely straightforward for business leaders but that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t take one, says columnist Pilita Clark on the politics of taking holidays....
...Financing for the project will come from an on-site hotel, sales of his work and investors. The latter includes the owner of the fund where he once worked in a suit....
...Prouvé was a man driven by the machine age, an engineer working with electric welding and sheet metal who was not preoccupied with “design”, but with functionalism and the mastery of material....
...(Ethan Wu) One good read A moving and important piece by the FT’s Manuela Saragosa about her partner’s suicide. The holidays are a tough time. Be careful out there, everyone....
...We sleep deeply in a vast bed of heavy mahogany and soft sheets until, come dawn, a fighting cock, somewhere beyond the walls, decides the time has come for us to wake up....
...But now Misra was hearing that Greensill was lending more and more money to controversial metals magnate Sanjeev Gupta....
...Sachs, and specialised in finding deals among metal and mining companies....
...worthless things like shiny metals....
...As in previous macro corrections, we would not take metal prices for granted: we have cut our demand forecasts and prices further....
...prove more volatile in the face of restriction concerns, we also believe that holiday-makers show an increased willingness to take vacation, suggesting that PAX traffic should resume, potentially at healthier...
...“This is causing me a lot of stress,” says Mr Jansen, who retired 17 years ago and hoped to use his pension pot to treat his grandchildren and afford good hotels on holidays....
...Scott is a partner at Andreessen Horowitz, one of the best-known funds, and he explains how and why investors make certain decisions....
...And here’s some more on leisure sector balance sheets from Stifel: Summer holiday programmes are typically 35-40% booked by early March....
...Brent and metals are off 4 per cent or so. You know why....
...Key downside risks to our rating and TP include continued pressure on auto sales volumes and the need for extended fee holidays....
...ETF buying has continued in 2019 with a 500,000 ounces added so far in 2019, according to UBS, which says most of the increase coming from US and UK funds amid uncertainty over Brexit and the outlook for...
...ice-fishing holiday in Alaska and the kids be damned?”...
...Save these for your holiday break if you’re too busy this week....
...First came a gloomier holiday quarter outlook. Then came the “oh, one more thing”....
...The piece is only accessible through a revolving metal door; inside, visitors find themselves in a closed room made from corrugated metal sheets....
...It’s not that easy to switch to arc production and maintain some of the qualities required in automotive, tin plate and electrical sheet. It’s easy to say but much more difficult to achieve”....
...It is the same story in equities: investors shifted out of US funds and into European, Japanese and global funds....
...Copper has risen to its highest level since Chinese funds attacked the metal six weeks ago....
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