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...like Schnabel. For a time she also represented Basquiat. Today she still has a thriving business at two locations in Manhattan. And as she sees it now, she did not so much create the new realities of the '80s market as respond to them. "Because of the Wall Street boom, the collector base quadrupled overnight," she says. "The art world didn't know how to deal with...
THERE'S BEEN A MINI-BOOM OF NEW AMERICAN CONCERT HALLS. DO YOU HAVE A FAVORITE...
...gung-ho about India that this kind of giddy pitch might just work. Indeed, a director at a Bombay brokerage says he's been startled by his recent encounters with foreign investment firms. Their attitude, he says, is: "'Let's just get invested quickly. It's going to boom for the next 20 years, so let's get a piece of the action.' They're not focused on valuations." As in any frothy market, the media feed the euphoria. Indian TV viewers are now treated to a regular CNBC program called Wizards of Dalal Street, showcasing the wisdom of local...
...based carrier that has grown into the world's fifth most profitable airline?and is redefining first-class luxury in the air. (Room service? On a plane?) For his first column on investing in Asia, William Green took himself off to Bombay, the heart of India's stock-market boom. "My head was spinning," says Green, of being bombarded with pitches for hedge funds and Indian real estate over meals in Bombay's ritzy hotels...
...Macau has been undergoing an economic boom since the local government ended a longstanding monopoly and opened the casino business to foreign investors in 2002. But the Cotai Strip takes the boom, and the city's glitz factor, to a whole new level. The first part of the project, slated for completion in 2007, includes Hilton, Marriott, Dorsett, Sheraton, InterContinental, Regal and Four Seasons hotels and casinos in addition to Adelson's own Venetian Macao. Besides more than doubling the number of hotel rooms in the city, the 1.3-km Cotai Strip's initial phase will boost entertainment and business...