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...Amazon is investing $115mn in exchange for a minority stake in the television networks that screen some of America’s biggest sports....
...But as Steven Kelly of the Yale Program on Financial Stability pointed out to me, Yellen et al will need the goodwill of the big banks should some other bank or banks get into trouble....
...William Mansfield, Credit Suisse’s head of M&A for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, is departing for a new role at Deutsche Bank....
...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...
...Brian Moynihan, chief executive of Bank of America, says the $2tn stimulus agreed last week by US lawmakers was of “a substantial size and dimension that most of us think is big enough to help do the trick...
...Dennis Cornell, the co-head of energy investment banking for the Americas at Morgan Stanley, is leaving the bank after two decades, Bloomberg reported....
...And, as lockdown measures are softened, the return of the likes of Gregg's, Starbucks et al to the UK FtG market will increase competition....
...Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
...PJT Partners has added Antonin Baladi, a former Bank of America dealmaker, to its European TMT investment banking group, Bloomberg reports....
...Executives who have withdrawn from the forum, due to take place at the end of the month, include Sir Richard Branson; Jim Yong Kim, World Bank president; Dara Khosrowshahi, Uber chief; Steve Schwarzman of...
...Competitors that provide this type of finance — banks, life insurance companies and other institutional investors — say the taxpayer’s backing allows Fannie and Freddie to offer borrowers better terms than...
...This was disproved by the trial of US v Zarrab et al, in which a Turkish banker and a gold trader were convicted of laundering Iranian oil and gas revenues....
...Post-closing cock-ups have also popped up recently in the fight between Arconic and hedge fund Elliott as well as a few years ago when Al Jazeera America bought Al Gore’s Current TV....
...JPMorgan Chase, the biggest US bank by assets, was up by 1 per cent in after hours trading, Bank of America climbed 1.3 per cent, Citigroup jumped 2.9 per cent and Wells Fargo added 1 per cent....
...Analysts at Bank of America Merrill Lynch said ahead of the release they expected consumer prices to remain stable in April, and that producer price deflation was likely to narrow because of higher commodity...
...A couple of weeks ago, Bank of America Merrill Lynch put out a research note titled: “The Silver Economy — Global Ageing Primer”....
...According to analysts at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, the overall fall in oil prices has been mostly due to the advent of shale oil technology causing a supply-induced shock, but should eventually prove...
...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...
...We suppose, before getting to what might stop this, one should probably discuss what’s hitting the Wunderbund et al. Still early in the day, after all....
...Elderly Athenians were left in the lurch, waiting outside branches of the National Bank of Greece....
...bond flows identified by Feroli et al (2014)....
...In 1979-80, when crude prices doubled following the fall of the Shah of Iran, Phibro made $1bn trading oil, said Al Kaplan, former president of Phibro’s energy unit....
...But in 2008 the bank had to be rescued with a state injection of £46bn. Its corporate culture of arrogance contributed to its downfall....
...Qatar Holding now has stakes in a geographically diverse range of lenders, such as Banco Santander’s Brazilian unit, Bank of America and the Agricultural Bank of China....
...Statistical studies (see for example Gadea et al) confirm that there has been no significant break in the behaviour of volatility in the five year period since 2008, compared to that experienced during GM...
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