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The Stock Pickers Guide to Royal Dutch Shell
LONDON -- Successful investors use a disciplined approach to picking stocks, and checklists can be a great way to make sure you've covered all the bases. In this series I'm subjecting companies to scrutiny under five headings: prospects, performance, management, safety and valuation. How does ...
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Dutch Lions Move Into Third Round of U.S. Open Cup
The Dayton Dutch Lions FC have secured their place in the 3rd Round of the Lamar Hunt US Open Cup after defeating Dearborn Stars SC 4-1 last night. The Dutch Lions will face The Columbus Crew in the next round at Crew Stadium on Wednesday, May 29. Unable to make next Wednesday's game in Columbus? No problem! The Dutch Lions will be facing the Crew two more times during their regular league ...
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Dutch honeymooners use WhatsApp to trace BB owner
Dubai: A Dutch couple who came to Dubai on their honeymoon, left with great memories, a treasure trove of goodies and possibly friends for life after tracking the owners of a lost mobile using a smart phone ...
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Unilever Ireland to seek 40 redundancies
Unilever has said it is to seek around 40 redundancies from its Irish operations in Citywest, Dublin. In a statement, the company said it was seeking the cuts in an attempt to create a "more competitive organisationin response to an unrelentingly challenging retail environment". Unilever currently employs 190 people in Ireland. It operates a number of brands including; Lyons ...
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Europes biggest port Rotterdam opens major extension
Europe's busiest port of Rotterdam opened a multi-billion euro extension on Wednesday, with wider and deeper basins to accomodate the world's biggest freight ships. The Maasvlakte 2 project is the largest feat of Dutch maritime engineering in decades and is forecast to only reach full completion in 20 years. The initial stage of the extension has been completed at a cost of 1.55 ...
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New Issue- Elsevier Finance prices 275 mln sfr 2018 bond
May 22(Reuters) -Following are terms and conditions of a bond priced on Wednesday. Borrower Elsevier Finance SA Guarantor Reed Elsevier Plc & Reed Elsevier NV Issue Amount 275 million Swiss francs ...
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Rotterdam Opens First Phase of Giant Maasvlakte 2 Container Hub
officially opened the first phase of Maasvlakte 2 , Europe's largest container terminal hub, which is expected to unleash a fierce battle for cargo across the Le Havre-Hamburg port range at a time of sluggish traffic growth."With Maasvlakte 2, the Netherlands is throwing the door wide open to the new generation of container ships. And we offer space for the latest terminals," said ...
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Dutch face highest bills in Europe for mobile internet
The Netherlands is the most expensive market in the EU for mobile broadband internet services, according to new Finnish research. For example, the report, by consultancy ...
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Dutch firm exported chemicals to Syria with weapons potential
Dutch companies have for years been selling chemicals to Syria which can be used to make chemical weapons, according to research by the NRC and RTL news. In 2003, for example, one Dordrecht-based company exported 160,000 litres of methyl ehtyleen glycol to part of the Syrian defence ministry, RTL and ...
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Dutch internet gambling market to be liberalised in 2015
The Netherlands is to open up the online gambling market to competition in 2015, ending the state's monopoly, according to draft legislation published on Wednesday. Currently, foreign firms are not supposed to target gamblers in the Netherlands, although the ban is widely ignored. The flouting of the ban has also had an impact on Holland Casino, the state-run gambling company which is ...
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European Football - Heitinga recalled by Netherlands
Netherlands coach Louis van Gaal included four newcomers and recalled Everton defender John Heitinga when he named his 21-man squad for friendly international matches against Indonesia and ...
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A Slice of Russia in Amsterdam
AMSTERDAM -- There's a story about the Russian czar Peter the Great that connoisseurs love to tell: While visiting the Dutch Republic in the late 17th century, he became fascinated with the work of the Dutch anatomist Frederik Ruysch, bought a collection of his medical "preservations" and shipped them home to his museum, the ...
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The Netherlands APM Terminals Posts Q1 2013 Report
HIGHLIGHTS o Profit of USD 166m (USD 226m). Gains of USD 73m after tax were included in 2012; o RQIC was 12.0% (20.1%); o Cash flow from operating activities was USD 242m (USD 185m); o Number of containers handled was 8.6m TEU (8.6m TEU); o A strategic partnership agreement was signed with Turkey-based Petkim to create and operate the new Aegean Gateway Terminal (AGT) near Izmir, Turkey; o ...
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Van Gaal Adds Four New Names to Dutch Squad for Friendlies
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Research and Markets Netherlands Refinery Market Analysis and Outlook to 2020 - Drivers Challenges Infrastructure ...
Research and Markets: Netherlands Refinery Market Analysis and Outlook to 2020 - Drivers, Challenges, Infrastructure, Supply- demand and competitive ...
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Dutch to oppose bizarre EU olive oil ban at Brussels summit
Holland will state its objections to the "bizarre" European Union ban on the use of olive oil jugs in restaurants at a Brussels summit today, increasing pressure on the Government to declare its opposition to the ...
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Laura Dekker victim of ageism in Netherlands?
Laura Dekker’s future plans to sail around the world solo hang in the balance as her emotional and mental stability is argued over by two national child care agencies that are in disagreement about her state of mind.
Laura Dekker, 14, has been trying since August last year to sail around the world on her own and in so doing become the youngest person to accomplish the feat. When she first announced her plans, the courts quickly intervened and according to Netherlands news reports, she was placed under the custody of the Child Protection Board in order to be assessed. Read more
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