Last quarter will be smiles better

The run-up to Christmas will be a season of good cheer, according to FinanceAsia readers.
October 05, 2010

Back in 1993, Peter Cunnah, the tartan-trousered lead singer of D:Ream, told British clubbers that: “Things can only get better.” It was optimistic and uplifting, but wrong -- the group didn’t have another number one hit and the last track that Cunnah lent his vocals to peaked at 43 in the Irish charts. In 2003.

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