Hints and tips:
...Dressed in a plaid shirt, he held court from his wheelchair....
...On November 21, 1995, James Giffen, an American businessman, began to wire tens of millions of dollars to a Swiss bank account....
...In April last year Yusupov, who is being held at a prison colony, raised concerns about prisoner welfare....
...Italy’s 10-year yield climbed 0.09 percentage points to 1.81 per cent in morning trading, having hit a one-month high of more than 2.2 per cent last week....
...For example, reserve strengthening by SwissRe, Axa and Allianz in February was preceded by FirstGroup acting in November....
...The FT asked 81 economists to peer into their crystal balls and answer a variety of questions about the economy this year....
...And fourth, the Treasury and the Bank of England together have all the tools of fiscal and monetary policy available to us, including the fiscal headroom I have held in reserve....
...In Europe, Allianz has long said it is interested in expanding through deals if it can find targets at the right price. In the US, AIG itself is eyeing other acquisitions....
...Pimco’s, in contrast, were down 3.2 per cent at €1.2bn. AGI now accounts for a quarter of Allianz Asset Management’s €1.6bn in revenues, up from 17 per cent in 2013....
...That accounts for the movement in net debt, although the group’s leverage still stands at just 0.8 times cash profit....
...Mr Pan, a financial analyst, put the funds into a wealth management product (WMP) marketed by a domestic bank that yields an annual return of 1.45 per cent....
...Profits in the department stores and related online business have held up: operating profit rose 10.8 per cent last year....
...In the future, debt falls to 82.6% next year, then 81.3% in 2017-18, then 79.9% the year after. In 2019-20, it falls again to 77.2%, then down again the year after to 74.7%....
...HNWIs are especially active in buying foreign property: 81.4 per cent of respondents with over Rmb6m in investable assets owned at least one home abroad....
...The scale of the challenge facing Mr McEwan became clear last month when the 81 per cent state-owned bank warned it would report a significant loss for 2013 after taking up to £7.5bn of impairments and provisions...
...Brittan) Foreign banks account for nearly half of reserves at Fed due to FDIC changes (WSJ) OVERNIGHT MARKETS Asian markets Nikkei 225 down -140.94 (-0.92%) at 15,133 Topix down -10.92 (-0.88%) at 1,226...
...(NYT) (Financial Times) Bank of Japan held steady: The policy board’s statement was almost identical to the last, which noted a “moderate” recovery in the world’s third largest economy and a “general” pick-up...
...Bausch & Lomb, the privately held ophthalmology business.”...
...(Financial Times) Luxembourg said it would exchange information with the rest of the EU about EU holders of bank accounts in the country....
...rejected a €10bn EU-led bailout that requires €5.8bn to be seized from Cypriot bank accounts....
...(Financial Times) Warning over £66bn public bank stakes: The Public Accounts Committee, the spending watchdog for parliament, says it is not convinced that the government will be able to sell its stakes...
...In the United Kingdom, 22 percent of seats in Parliament are held by women. In the European Parliament, one-third of the seats are held by women. None of these figures are close to 50 percent....
...* Split ruling in Korea Apple-Samsung case * Vietnamese bank chief arrested * Shanghai stocks slump to three-year low * Lonmin finance chief named acting CEO * IMF to discuss central bank concerns, not...
...Privately-held Meraki helps customers to remote secure and operate Wifi access points, and is backed by the likes of Google and Sequoia Partners....
...Shell chief Voser in Russian talks Peter Voser, chief executive of Royal Dutch Shell, has held talks with Igor Sechin, Russia’s powerful energy tsar, about possible co-operation in exploration of the Arctic...
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