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...AstraZeneca Plc has made a preliminary approach to rival drugmaker Gilead Sciences Inc. about a potential merger, according to people familiar with the matter, in what would be the biggest health-care deal...
..., offices and leisure) sector as well as the renting residential sector in the capital....
...The reason that derivative instruments inflicted losses on their holders was that they derived their value from residential mortgages, commercial property and other financial assets....
...Paying off your mortgage during your working years should mean that you won’t have to worry about putting a roof over your head when you’re older, unless of course property taxes force you to move....
...(WSJ) US landlord Gables eyes $3bn sale: The landlord of almost 40,000 family homes, has been put up for sale by its private equity owners in a deal that would mark one of the largest sales of US residential...
...The SEC alleges that Citigroup Global Markets structured and marketed a CDO called Class V Funding III and exercised significant influence over the selection of $500 million of the assets included in the...
...Is this simply a bargaining position? John, London, UK DB: The threat is much greater than our politicians care to give credit for. Messrs Cable, Darling et al say they don’t care! They should....
...Because quasi-ownership through having funded the Tarp, PPIP et al wasn’t enough for the US taxpayer, who one must also assume is canny enough to make risk-reward assessments of the type so successfully...
...“We basically view residential mortgage as an extension of our consumer business” of deposit-taking....
...Ninety-nine per cent of US homes stock Kraft products, which include such global brands as Oreo, Philadelphia, Dairylea and Toblerone....
...These were precursors to CDOs, the pools of mortgage-backed securities that were to wreak havoc on the global financial system years later ....
...After 12 consecutive months of contraction, residential mortgage loans on banks’ books increased in February, likely a result of the pickup in refinancing activity....
...As Japan emerged from its “lost decade” of asset price deflation, exports went up from 11.4 per cent of gross domestic product in 2002 to 17.6 per cent last year, according to the cabinet office....
...David Drane, Dorset Tim Price: The gloom in relation to US Inc is probably overdone....
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