Hints and tips:
...Magritte’s pipe, Dalí-esque Mae West lips — for a gallerist’s home....
...In one of the show’s opening images, from Carrie Mae Weems’s “The Rivington Place Portfolio” (2006-7), the artist haunts the British Museum portico in a spectral black dress....
...When 12-year-old Teiva Collins, a wig recipient and Little Princess Trust ambassador, was diagnosed with leukaemia in May 2019, her first question was: “Does that mean I’m going to lose my hair?”...
...That might depend on the outcome of Collins vs Mnuchin, a case to be heard by the Supreme Court on December 9. I would bet on volatility, rather than direction, for the GSE shares....
...It was meant to be a safe bet as most of its assets were residential mortgage-backed securities issued by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac....
...The FT’s Neil Collins spots another historical parallel — between UK chancellor Philip Hammond and his ill-fated 1990s counterpart Norman Lamont — but “every chancellor needs a slice of luck and Mr Hammond...
...Leading US artist Carrie Mae Weems credits the late photographer with confounding conventions....
...Senate Republicans blocked a third judicial nominee this week and also opposed Democratic Congressman Mel Watt, who was named to head the regulatory agency that oversees mortgage finance companies Fannie Mae...
...“More people are paying for advice out of their own pocket,” adds Mr Collins. “And that shows up in lower expense ratios....
...Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe, two Maine Republicans, said they had also decided to back the bill....
..., the senior Republican senator on the banking committee who is also expected to participate in conference discussions, said the legislation was “flawed”, citing the failure to include reform of Fannie Mae...
...Fannie Mae was “great” (a different book by Mr Collins) before the subprime mortgage crisis took it down....
...But Collins productions do not appear overnight. When research started on this project, Lehman Brothers, Fannie Mae and Royal Bank of Scotland were all flourishing – or so it seemed....
...In addition, it had taken a $135m writedown after a sharp fall in preference shares in Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae....
...Alex Potter, analyst at Collins Stewart, said: “In a market such as this [even with the imposition of short selling bans], B&B remains a weakened lender with fast-deteriorating asset quality, a weakening...
...The financial sector led the rally, buoyed by news of a US government rescue plan for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two government-sponsored mortgage groups hurt by the credit market fall out....
...“It’s a blow to their credibility,” says Alex Potter, an analyst at Collins Stewart....
...Since then, Mr Flowers and his crew have engineered the $25bn (£12.5bn) buy-out of Sallie Mae, the institution that lends to US university students, as well as bought stakes in German and Dutch financials...
...Since then, Mr Flowers and his crew have engineered the $25bn buy-out of Sallie Mae, the institution that lends to US university students, as well as bought stakes in German and Dutch financials....
...Here he worked with Tim Collins, a former Lazard banker who runs another buy-out group called Ripplewood and a circle of blue- chip banks....
...Together with Tim Collins of Ripplewood, another private equity firm, they bought the collapsed bank for $1.2bn in 2002, turned it around and made many times their money when they took the renamed Shinsei...
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