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...China Mobile’s Shanghai listing has done more than deliver fat returns, though....
...Perhaps the hedge fund needs a reminder that fat-finger flubs haven’t been completely stomped out....
...Fat cat bankers were in the public firing line, and when a $100m payday for Mr Hall was reported, it was met with fury....
...Palm oil is a widely used ingredient because it is one of the cheapest vegetable fats and is much higher yielding than many alternatives....
...The lightbulb is a safer and more controllable source of artificial light than the candle or the oil lamp, but what really makes it transformative is its price — the cost of illumination has fallen approximately...
...They say it isn’t over until the fat guy sings....
...Palm oil is used in almost every cosmetics product and processed food on store shelves as an alternative to trans-fats and other oils....
...Those moves follow a 1.9 per cent drop for the S&P 500 on Friday, following a rally in the dollar and a fresh drop in oil prices....
...Tighter supplies of palm oil, of which Wilmar is the world’s biggest producer, also contributed to the fall in group profit....
...The fund dislikes fat pay packets and bosses who combine the roles of chairman and chief executive....
...Wilmar’s refining margins shrank in the fourth quarter. The company has managed to offset that partially by expanding into higher-margin areas such as oleochemicals and speciality fats....
...From the Chinese chef in Guangdong to the chippie in Glasgow, those manning deep fat fryers surely felt uneasy as the US drought damaged soyabean fields....
...Wilmar, the Singapore-listed trader, could also be a bidder as the company seeks to diversify from its palm oil focus into sugar and other grains....
...And it could face competition from Asia, particularly from companies such as Wilmar of Singapore and Cofco of China....
...The time of the fat cows, as some Spaniards call it, feels long gone. Economic growth, as measured by gross domestic product, came in at just 0.2 per cent in the second quarter....
...Wilmar International, the world’s largest listed palm oil company, planned to raise as much as $3.5bn in a Hong Kong listing of its China unit, but abandoned the idea last week....
...In the US palm oil demand has been rising because of health concerns over hydrogenated fats....
...Last year, according to Credit Suisse, US imports of Malaysian palm oil rose 19 per cent thanks to new labelling laws on unhealthier trans fats. Chinese demand rose 17 per cent....
...Others seem to be seeing the same thing: have you seen how fat The Sun has been recently?...
...Galloways face new claims over oil and cash George Galloway and his wife faced fresh allegations yesterday over the illicit receipt of money from Saddam Hussein’s oil-for-food programme....
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