Monthly Archives: September 2014

Guildford Book Festival: The events each venue is hosting

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A total of 14 venues will be hosting events at this year's Guildford Book Festival.Stretching from Sunday October 12 through to Sunday October 19, a total of 53 talks will be conducted across the town as the festival celebrates its 25th anniversary.This year's line-up includes the likes of cricketer Kevin Pietersen, journalists Kate Adie and Andrew Marr, television presenter Richard Madeley, author Jacqueline Wilson and comedian Paul Merton.With up to 10 events being held on any one day, you may Read more [...]

Germany-listed firm says top China executives missing, cash gone

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FRANKFURT/HONG KONG (Reuters) - A Germany-listed shoemaker became the latest Chinese company to report the disappearance of top executives, underscoring the danger of doing business in the Asian powerhouse at a time of heightened scrutiny of its firms' corporate governance. Frankfurt-listed Ultrasonic AG (US5.DE) said chief executive Qingyong Wu and chief operating officer Minghong Wu had been missing since the weekend, and most of its cash reserves in China and Hong Kong had disappeared.The mystery Read more [...]

Alibaba IPO Date: Company’s options to be listed on September 29

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iNVEZZ.com, Wednesday, September 17: Investors will be able to trade Alibaba Group options in two weeks, it has been revealed.CBOE Holdings Inc yesterday announced that the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) and C2 Options Exchange (C2) are planning to list options on the Chinese e-commerce giant on September 29.In a separate release, International Securities Exchange Holdings (ISE), which operates the ISE and ISE Gemini options exchanges, said that its markets would also list Alibaba options Read more [...]

Stately homes: live the Downton Abbey dream for less

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Stately homes cost an arm and a leg to maintain, as everyone knows. Highclere Castle in Berkshire, where Downton Abbey is filmed, is pretty typical. Years of structural decay – leaky roofs and rotting floorboards – have been followed by thumping £10 million-plus restoration bills. Stately splendour: Temple Grove in East Sussex, where a two-bedroom duplex apartment is on the market for £649,950, with Knight Frank The magnificent Jacobean property, now a television celebrity Read more [...]

Germany-listed Ultrasonic says top China executives missing, cash gone

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FRANKFURT/HONG KONG (Reuters) - Ultrasonic AG, a Chinese footwear maker listed in Germany, said most of its cash reserves in China and Hong Kong had disappeared and it had lost trace of its chief executive and chief operating officer. The mystery is likely to fuel concerns about corporate governance in the world's second-biggest economy, at a time when shortsellers are targeting smaller Chinese companies with claims of falsified statements to auditors and dubious management practices. Ultrasonic's Read more [...]

Kim Kardashian, Kanye West List Totally Trashed Bel Air Mansion For Sale At …

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Has Kimye got a deal for you! Kim Kardashian and Kanye West have listed their totally trashed Bel Air mansion for sale at the bargain price of $11 million—and Popdust has photos. According to Trulia, the couple purchased the 14,000 square-foot home, situated on a primo piece of 3/4 acre, guard-gated land, back in January 2013 for $9 million. They promptly set about literally bringing down the house, as part of an ambitious planned renovation—knocking down the walls throughout and stripping the Read more [...]

Alibaba options expected to be listed on September 29 – exchanges

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Investors looking to hedge their bets or speculate on the direction of Alibaba Group's stock after its expected public sale of shares on Friday, will be able to trade its options in two weeks, as U.S. options exchanges are expected to list contracts on the company. The Chinese e-commerce company's options will be listed on CBOE Holdings Inc and International Securities Exchange Holdings' options exchanges on Sept. 29, pending the company's public sale of shares this week, Read more [...]

Tencent: The Alibaba That’s Already Listed

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The fervour about Alibaba, and the chance to participate in China’s burgeoning online story, has clouded the fact that investors have had that opportunity since at least 2004. Investors who got in on the ground floor of that flotation are up 3,500%. It’s called tencent. The two companies are very different, and yet find themselves having steadily more in common with one another. Founded in 1999 (like Alibaba), tencent  is more of a social media play that Alibaba is: if Alibaba Read more [...]