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...Warren G Harding had been elected the 29th president of the United States on a promise to restore the country to normalcy....
...“It’s pure fear — you can see it in the empty supermarket shelves and you can see it in the bond market,” said Dickie Hodges, a fund manager at Nomura Asset Management....
...Groups such as Unilever, which makes Dove soap, and P&G, which owns Gillette razors, have slashed advertising budgets, as ecommerce giants change the way goods are bought, sold and distributed....
...Due.Diligence@ft.com Does Dalian Wanda always pay its debts? Is Beijing nervous about the state of Dalian Wanda’s finances?...
...At Wanda, management has already started what appears to be a massive sell-off....
...On Gigha (pronounced “gee-ah” with a hard “g”), the wind farm has had to limit output because of a shortage of grid capacity and has had no way of storing the excess until now....
...For instance, US consumer companies have been a regular investment area for activists who have invested in Mondelez, Pepsi, P&G and ConAgra....
...While Chinese property developers are active in the UK — Dalian Wanda, for example, is constructing a residential scheme in London — there have been no Chinese takeovers of UK housebuilders....
...Aberdeen also promoted John Dickie to co-head of US private equity, alongside Scott Reed....
L&G property group buys Aker headquarters for £127m
...This month Bridgepoint sold the Swiss sports rights distributor Infront Media to Dalian Wanda for 12 times....
...Reporting by George Parker, John Aglionby and Josephine Cumbo in London, Mure Dickie in Edinburgh, Jamie Chisholm in London and Alistair Gray in Glasgow...
...Developments set for completion in 2015 include a £60m office building being built on West Regent Street by London-based Mountgrange and M&G Real Estate, at 143,000 sq ft one of the largest such schemes...
...Additional reporting by Mure Dickie in Edinburgh...
...In the gritty Hebei town of Langfang, migrant worker Duan Tingchun, 34, spends his days cleaning the glass façade of the towering Wanda Plaza, home to an Imax cinema and shops including France’s Carrefour...
...Additional reporting by Mure Dickie...
...Just before the meeting of G-7 finance ministers in Washington in April, he declared that US patience was running out....
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