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...“The city is relatively full, there’s talk of a tourist tax,” said Clifford Abrahams, chief financial officer of ABN Amro. “ The housing market is already strained and people are worried about their kids...
...Nick Kounis, Head Macro and Financial Markets Research, ABN Amro Yes. Global growth is improving moderately and a lower euro should help eurozone exporters to get a bigger share of world trade....
...These were partly offset by an expected gain of €208m representing negative goodwill from the ABN Amro deal....
...He took a rare public stance last year on ABN Amro, calling for the sale of the bank, where he was joined by Chris Hohn of The Children’s Investment Fund, a London activist....
...It’s quite clear that a casual look around ABN Amro before they’d been bought might have been very instructive, because it was clearly complex, it was clearly opaque and it was clearly a bit of a mess....
...Belgian-Dutch Fortis needed to raise capital to help finance its participation in the three-way dismemberment of ABN Amro, much of whose retail network it is swallowing....
...ABN Amro’s first issue could also prompt other banks to enter the Dutch market....
...BSkyB fell 2.3 per cent to 466p after ABN Amro said it was sceptical about the satellite broadcaster’s long-term targets....
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