Hints and tips:
...Tiger Hou, a partner at Ent Group, the Chinese entertainment consulting firm, says Disney has “a real edge” against local theme parks because of its famous characters....
...Fitness as fashion is having a moment....
...“I can’t say there haven’t been tense moments and harsh feedback in both directions. But like any relationship, you grow from that.”...
...Wei Huan, a researcher at Ent Group, a media research consultancy, said the agreement “implies co-operation on a deeper level, and compared with acting as a distribution agent or a partner in film making...
...USAA declined to comment on the sale, which was run by Goldman Sachs and Swiss Re Capital Markets....
...Masafumi Wani, head of power systems at MHI, will become chairman, while Vestas’ new chief executive, Anders Runevad, will be vice-chairman....
...Obama was the more aggressive of the duo, behaving as the underdog trying to goad his oppon ent into sharp argument....
...● Janus Capital International has opened an office in the Netherlands, hiring Sander Van Der Ent from Highbury Finance to head up its Dutch business....
...Susan Hart, dean of Strathclyde Business School, says that the MBAhas been tailored with Grants and contains three distinct elective courses – family/owner-managed business, entrepreneurship and luxury...
...Mr Levy said Spurs had previously decided not to pitch for the Olympic stadium because it believed a stadium mixing football and athletics would not work commercially but had entered the race last autumn...
...Elsewhere in the sector, China Construction Bank slid 2.1 per cent to Rmb4.71 and Industrial and Commercial Bank of China shed 1.7 perc ent to Rmb4.18....
...Switzerland’s UBS jumped 3.3 per cent to SFr14.62, while Société Générale rose 2 per ent to €43.68. Barclays in London rose 4 per cent to 277p....
...After leaving Disney he worked for a European internet company and Live Ent, which produces Broadway shows, before returning to Los Angeles and making his Marvel studio pitch to Isaac “Ike” Perlmutter, the...
...British Airways climbed 2.2 per ent to 342p after a positive note on the European airline sector from UBS. The report also helped budget airline EasyJet rise 4.1 per cent to 585½p....
...That figure also spooked HMV Group, which shed 2 per ent to 110¼p....
...The FTSE 100 swung violently before settling 55.5 points, or 0.9 per ent, lower at 6,116. The FTSE 250 fell 99 points, or 0.9 per cent, to 10,983....
...Meanwhile, BT shares gained 1.9 per cent to 253¼p after its wholesale arm beat off competition from Cable & Wireless, up 0.2 per ent to 125 ½p, to win a contract to provide Vodafone customers in the UK with...
...Mizuho, Japan’s second biggest banking group, climbed 2.2 per ent to Y914,000....
...It lost 1.1 per ent to £16.16....
...Companies from India, Thailand, South Korea, Brazil and a host of independ-ent and smaller players are also interested....
...Henderson Group, the fund manager, rose 1.1 per ent to 68¼p on talk of stake building....
...Barratt Developments gained 3.7 per cent to 700p, Bovis Homes was up 2.7 per cent to 623½p, Redrow added 2.9 per ent to 405p and Bellway rose 2.7 per cent to 857p as traders mulled possible targets....
...WH Smith added 2.4 per ent to 355p on renewed but vague talk that a private equity group could mount a takeover bid for the retailer....
...In the process, however, local Chinese enterprises, especially in the value-added export sectors, have be come largely to depend ent on foreign technology and have failed to develop brands. something top...
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