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...Proving the adaptability of the new V-neck mood, Instagram star Fai Khadra looked sharp in a V-neck polo-shirt hybrid at the recent Lacoste presentation in Paris, and Mark Ronson cut a figure both rakish...
...Still others think a more wholesale transformation of how we buy and consume products is needed....
...While most big brands have wholesale agreements with Amazon, third-party sellers are prolific on the site, complicating price control further....
...If you own jewellers such as Cartier, Van Cleef & Arpels and Piaget people pay attention to what you have to say about the global luxury industry. And today that news isn’t good....
...“The families have control that is disproportionate to the amount of shares they hold,” says Herald van der Linde, head of Asia-Pacific equity strategy at HSBC....
...“They have found for the most part that it is very difficult to have synergies in retail banking across borders,” says Mr van Steenis....
...He has not even succumbed to the pressures to make himself into a brand – with his short grey hair, perennial jacket and clean-cut mien, Van Noten resembles a banker on casual Friday more than any stereotype...
...Amazon operated on a wholesale model, buying books from publishers for $10 then selling them to consumers for $9.99....
...Gina Flower, who was shopping with her two daughters, said she wanted a coffee maker from Target, which opened at 9pm....
...With Janis Joplin playing in the background and incense simmering, it was impossible to resist paying $80 for a pair of groovy boot-cut yoga pants with black peace signs around the edges....
...Piaget, for instance, shows its jewellery at the highly prestigious Biennale des Antiquaires in Paris alongside the best pieces from the likes of Cartier and Van Cleef & Arpels....
...United States v Apple, Inc et al is more than a US Justice department antitrust action against publishers allegedly colluding on ebook prices....
...Rising funding costs for European banks are stoking fears that they could be forced to cut back lending and drag down the already struggling world economy....
...For one week, the Grand Palais becomes a honey pot of glorious antiques, art (with a 1950s cut-off date) and decorative oeuvres that draw wealthy, erudite collectors from around the world....
...That is how the Library of Congress described the run-up to the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933, which revolutionised the US financial sector for six decades by separating investment and wholesale banking....
...For the banks, the race is on to find new sources of funding to cut their reliance on wholesale markets....
...“This could make wholesale funding more difficult and expensive to obtain for US bank holding companies and banks.” S&P has also warned it may cut ratings....
...It forecast strong growth of 7-8 per cent in wholesale orders in the second half of the year....
...Location has blessed Shell executives before: in 2004, Walter van de Vijver, the former head of exploration and production, likewise pocketed a generous pay-off....
...Conservative-minded commentators lauded its flat taxes and wholesale adoption of laissez-faire economics....
...Their friendship proved lasting, and when Hepburn left Europe for America to star in the Broadway production of Gigi in 1951 – having cut her acting teeth in Ealing comedies such as The Lavender Hill Mob...
...Jet makers have been stunned by the speed of the decline, as orders are deferred or cancelled, leading to plunging deliveries, wholesale job cuts, suspended development programmes and corporate failures...
...He duly prepared a furious statement on behalf of the Wholesale Market Brokers’ Association, a lobbying group he leads....
...When Mr Gref and other officials spoke of consolidating Gaz with Avtovaz, GM worried about the wholesale transfer of its intellectual property to Russia....
...In other cases, the pain will be even more broadly felt, says Huw van Steenis, analyst at Morgan Stanley. “I think the bigger holders now of securitisations are insurance companies and pension funds.”...
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