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...boom in North America....
...For example, in a 2010 opinion (Chevron Corp v Steven Donziger, et al) handed down from the US district court in Manhattan, the judge wrote that the “evidence at trial established that Donziger, a New York...
...But America is the dominant producer of dollars. In oil, they'd call it the "swing producer." Basically, around 1980 the United States discovered that it was the Saudi Arabia of money....
...Diamond et al estimated that the gains to people who were tenants in San Francisco in 1994, when there was a vote to tighten rent control laws, was $2.9bn between 1995 and 2012....
...The first employer-sponsored pension plan in Canada was introduced in 1874 (Gale et al., 2006). By contrast, some countries have only recently introduced private pension plans....
...Mian et al also found that the states to deregulate first weren’t more volatile than the rest of America back in the 1960s or 1970s, nor can their findings be explained by the big drop in the oil price in...
...number of new attractive retail markets in London and the wealthiest catchment areas in the United States....
...The economic calendar includes reports for US job openings at 10:00 in New York and consumer credit at 15:00....
...The euro is too young a currency to give up so soon the standard of having a single Treasury curve, as in the United States of America....
...Some people didn’t appreciate Alphaville’s recent comparison of Greece’s economic performance since 2007 with that of the United States during the Great Depression, which implied the Greek government missed...
...The dollar index, a measure of the US currency against a basket of global peers, was flat at 95.88....
...A fixture of the Donald Trump rally during the Republican primary was the candidate reading out the many polls that showed him ahead in state after state....
...(0.00%) at 4,491 Dax unchanged 0.00 (0.00%) at 10,573 Currencies €/$ 1.12 (1.12) $/¥ 102.52 (102.65) £/$ 1.33 (1.33) €/£ 0.8471 (0.8462) Commodities ($) Brent Crude (ICE) down -0.86 at 47.15 Light Crude...
...Akzo Nobel has warned of a “challenging” market environment as the Dutch paints and chemicals company said revenues were down 4 per cent to €3.43bn in the first quarter, because of “adverse currency effects...
...This is Peppa Pig’s chance to jump in puddles with ET....
...borrowers owe remarkably little of their dollar debt to banks or investors that reside in the United States.”...
...(-0.68%) at 6,187 CAC 40 unchanged 0.00 (0.00%) at 4,655 Dax unchanged 0.00 (0.00%) at 10,230 Currencies €/$ 1.14 (1.14) $/¥ 119.73 (120.03) £/$ 1.56 (1.56) €/£ 0.7311 (0.7332) Commodities ($) Brent Crude...
...0.00%) at 10,164 Currencies €/$ 1.13 (1.13) $/¥ 119.42 (119.48) £/$ 1.55 (1.55) €/£ 0.7324 (0.7323) Commodities ($) Brent Crude (ICE) up +0.13 at 48.74 Light Crude (Nymex) up +0.15 at 46.04 100 Oz Gold...
...For a company like Rural that is traded on a major exchange, ―[t]urnover measured by average weekly trading of . . . 1% would justify a substantial presumption‖ of market efficiency. 5 Bromberg et al., Bromberg...
...(Bloomberg) In the news Baltimore riots The US state of Maryland declared a state of emergency and deployed national guard troops as rioters clashed with police in the city of Baltimore....
...United Continental closed down 2.49 per cent at $51.69, Delta fell nearly 2 per cent at $40.27, American Airlines nearly 3 per cent to $38.80 and Southwest saw shares fall 1.42 per cent to $32.62....
...CAC now owns 42 per cent of Caesars Growth Partners with the remainder owned by CEC (which it got in exchange for the assets it contributed)....
...(FT) Video of the day Martin Wolf on Grexit The Greek state is running out of cash and there may be no rescue this time. Martin Wolf talks about what happens in the case of a default....
...(Asharq Al-Awsat) Video of the day Do board quotas work? The number of women on company boards has hit the 25 per cent target in the UK....
...(FT) Protests and deaths on anniversary of Egypt uprising At least17 people were killed yesterday in the bloodiest protests since Abdel Fattah al-Sisi was elected, as security forces fired at protesters...
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