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...“In terms of investment they’re not really that good....
...The $18bn distressed debt investor Strategic Value Partners seized control of the owner of US retail properties such as Rolling Oaks Mall in Texas and Tippecanoe Plaza in Indiana in a transaction approved...
...White Oak has also stepped in to refinance Gupta’s Australian steel assets and associated mines. Read up here....
...it [the Oak Room and Oak Bar are now function rooms]....
...Visitor numbers, investment and property prices have all risen substantially. Until last month, only one thing was still missing: a really fine old-town boutique hotel....
...During one trip to Havana, Stanfield stumbled upon a government-run bookshop in the city’s oldest square, Plaza de Armas....
...It’s a place for mixed grills, ox heart, buttered carrots and breakfasts that cross into Man v Food territory....
...The centrepiece of its permanent display is a restoration of an oak panelled tea room by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, a celebrated Scottish architect, which had been held in storage in more than 1,000 pieces...
...“It was the biggest investment in this entire building,” he adds. “But it’s nice to be able to do a staircase based on a design that’s been around for 400 years....
...Qubits v bytes: how quantum computing works Quantum computing taps into the quirky behaviour of sub-atomic particles, which bend our normal understanding of physics....
...Smart reads David v Goliath Large consumer goods companies are starting to feel the impact of their smaller, more innovative rivals....
...Mr Stracke says Chrono24’s “core business is very profitable”, although investment in growth means earnings are “slightly negative” — a situation familiar to other internet businesses....
...Yet others, including Andy Rothman, an investment strategist at Matthews Asia, insist that there are far more differences than similarities....
...Like so many buildings of its era, it suffered from a plaza....
...The oak-panelled walls of the Peninsula’s bar and the magnificent stone work and mouldings of its lobby and ballroom are a case in point....
...Brian Ingram, who researches investment managers in China for a joint venture between Ping An and Russel Investments of the US, said there was a growing number of impressive hedge fund managers inside China...
...“Only a few are really into the Mark II, Mark III, Mark IV and Mark V series.” But Omega is not targeting that market....
...There has been no shortage of outside investment in Mendoza wine....
...Large-scale investment may have come to a pause but Paradores de Turismo is a tanker that takes a while to slow down....
...in New York and the George V, Paris....
...N.V. Tyagarajan, Genpact’s chief executive, said: “We are excited about this transaction, which is hugely positive for all of our shareholders....
...Moreover, public spending has encouraged private investment....
...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...
...she says, as a V-shaped crack in the island’s cliffs reveals the settlement of Jamestown. “And it’s British!”...
...Visitors will walk through a grove of swamp oaks and pass verdant lawns as they move toward the centrepiece: two huge pools where the towers once stood....
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