December 31, 2010
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With banks offering very little to savers at the present time, being unsure about where to invest your hard earned cash is a fairly common problem nowadays. With luxury brands reporting healthy rises in profits this year, it could prove provident to buy shares in the well-known brands associated with luxury lifestyles and wealth.
With the so-called rise of the middle-classes in countries such as China, India and Russia, luxury brand names are reaping the benefits of the eastern “nouveau riche”, seeking the trappings of a wealthy western lifestyle.
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December 30, 2010
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Like many rapidly developing suburbs in North America, the city of Mississauga in Southern Ontario, is on a quest for a modern makeover.
Rising to 170 meter, Mississauga’s ‘Absolute Towers’ authenticate the city’s desires to convey a new and modern identity that connects people and an urban setting with a surrounding natural landscape.
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December 29, 2010
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A 71-year-old former electrician and his wife uncovering a trove containing 271 undocumented, never-seen-before works by Pablo Picasso, estimated to be worth at least 60 million euros, is the narrative of a Walt Disney Classic. Although this extraordinary tale is very real.
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December 28, 2010
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Being just 82 metres in length, the luxury yacht ‘Ocean Breeze’ may be considered slightly scrawny compared to some of the jumbo superyachts that are fashionably being custom-built for the rich and famous. Although regardless of its comparably inferior size, Ocean Breeze is fitted out with some of the most excessively extravagant features and facilities one could possibly find onboard a yacht, including an operating theatre, a helipad and an escape tunnel leading to a submarine. Although on being informed of whom once owned this ostentatiously exaggerated boat, the picture starts to add up.
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December 27, 2010
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The Graff Pink as we all come to know it saw bidders emerging from all corners of the earth to bid on this, possibly one of the most precious stones known to man. The stone smashed pre-auction estimates by almost 50 percent and set a new diamond and jewel auction world record.
The Graff Pink is an extraordinarily rare and exceedingly beautiful Fancy Intense Pink Emerald-Cut Diamond, which sold in auction in November for a staggering $46,158,674 at Sotheby’s Geneva.
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